Even hardcore true- crime fans will have a hardcore hard time swallowing ID’s Friday the 13th lineup:
Two blood-soaked nightmares, including one original movie about a vampiric serial killer who loved drinking his victims’ blood, and a true movie about a pig farmer who killed hookers by gutting them in his barn like swine.
Yikes! Not to be picky, but there’s true crime and then there’s true horror — which is, of course, much scarier and a lot more repulsive than the made-up kind.
First, “Pig Farm,” an indie movie, is the detailed account of the murders, long-overdue investigation and unsatisfact-
ory conviction of Canada’s most prolific — and revoltingly inventive — serial killer, Robert Pickton.
Pickton, a wealthy, crazy pig farmer, killed as many as 26 down-at-the-spike-heels streetwalkers and went undiscovered for years.
Dozens of witnesses who have never spoken before talked to the filmmakers. Those previously closed-mouthed witnesses include the junkies, hookers and hangers-on who all lived with Pickton at his filthy farm. Now they’re finally speaking out about what what they suspected, but never bothered to say.
It took the diligence of a beat cop, Dave Dixon, who demanded an investigation, to uncover evidence about where dozens of women on his beat that not many people seemed to care about could possibly be.
Even the other hookers claimed they had no idea of where the missing women were, or who could possibly be out to harm them.
Wouldn’t you think that when a guy shows up wearing a pig’s penis belt, he might be trouble?
But nooo. No one knew a thing back in the early 2000s when these women were disappearing.
Then again, these weren’t the kinds of witnesses that the cops generally trust all that much.
Take Gina Houston, who lived at the pig farm for a while and, on camera, gives herself the dubious honor of being “the biggest and best crack whore there ever was!”
I guess that’s why she was Pickton the pig farmer’s true “love.” After all, he didn’t cut out her entrails. Now that’s love.
At midnight, ID airs their first-ever scripted movie, “Lore: Deadly Obsession,” a very graphic film about Richard Trenton Chase (Dylan Seaton). Chase was a man who kept Sacramento in terror for several years in the late 1970s as he viciously killed his way around town, murdering women and sometimes their family members in their own homes.
Worse, this beast was both a cannibal and a blood drinker. It wasn’t that he was a vampire looking for eternal life, it was that he was a subhuman looking to maintain the one he had.
Chase believed his heart was shrinking, and the only way to get blood to his arteries was to supply it himself. True story.
So, the SOB killed and drank the blood of dozens of people including that of a pregnant lady, a new mom and a newborn baby.
Chase had earlier been in a mental institution but was released. Apparently, no one noticed that he’d been drinking a fellow nut’s blood — until the drink machine went dry and the guy expired.
Should you watch these movies? Sure, if you never want to sleep again, please be my guest. And don’t forget to triple-lock your doors.