There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than casting a hunky actor in an unsuspecting role. Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) As Christie, Attenborough peppers Christie’s unassuming nature with a sinister edge, in what The Independent described as a “memorably creepy performance”. Strangling at least eight women to death in his flat in the 1940s and Fifties, he initially stood as a prosecution witness after another tenant in his building (John Hurt) was arrested for the crime, sending him to his death. John Christie’s story is a truly chilling one. Richard Attenborough as John Christie in 10 Rillington Place (1971) Seen through the eyes of Lord Longford (Jim Broadbent), a man looking to pardon Moors Murderer Hindley, viewers were presented with an unexpectedly soft-spoken, feminine version of the killer as she drifts between both performative and genuine repentance, but one worthy of a Golden Globe. It takes an impressive actor to play “the most evil woman in Britain” but in 2006’s Longford, Samantha Morton showed that she was up to the challenge. Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley in Longford (2006) There’s a chilling, matter-of-fact politeness in the way Britton lists off his crimes and how he did them that gained the actor critical praise, as well as an Emmy nomination.

Netflix’s Mindhunter featured a number of real life criminals in its two seasons, but it is Cameron Britton’s turn as Ed Kemper, the so-called “Co-ed Killer” who murdered 10 people including his own mother, that sticks in the mind of everyone who watches.

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