![]() The focus on an investigator who happens to be losing her mind is a bit of a different angle. All in all it is pretty familiar serial killer stuff like we've seen in so many other films. And of course before the killer strikes again. ![]() Megan is losing it again and it's a race against time to solve the case before she goes completely crazy. Her frustrations manifest themselves in more of these visions or hallucinations or whatever they are. But the killer remains elusive and Megan will not let the case go. Eventually the two bond and make some progress in the case. Her new partner, played by screenwriter Malloy himself, is understandably wary. But when the bodies of more young girls turn up, following the alphabet pattern Megan had obsessed on, she's back on the case. Is she really seeing things or just losing her mind? She ends up having a nervous breakdown and losing her position as a detective, demoted to a desk job. The film veers toward the supernatural and/or psychological as Megan Paige begins to be haunted by visions. Dushku just about manages to keep the film afloat. Eliza Dushku plays the role and the movie was always going to sink or swim on her performance. ![]() Where does this movie want to go from there? Well, it turns out not to really be about the killer but about the young detective investigating the crime, Megan Paige. For example this film's first victim is Carla Castillo, found in Churchville. And that killer dumped the bodies in towns with names beginning with that same letter. The basic facts of the case are that there once was a killer whose victims were young girls whose first and last names started with the same letter. ![]() But screenwriter Tom Malloy pretty much made this story entirely his own. The Alphabet Killer is based very, very loosely on a real story. ![]()
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