What’s Real in ‘Woman of the Hour,’ Anna Kendrick’s New Movie About the ‘Dating Game’ Killer
The Netflix film Woman of the Hour tells the based-on-real-events story of serial murderer Rodney Alcala — better known as “The Dating Game Killer” — who appeared on the primetime game show in 1978, in the midst of a spree of violent attacks and murders of women. Anna Kendrick directs and stars in the film as Sheryl Bradshaw, an aspiring actor and Dating Game contestant who selected Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) as the winning bachelor on the show, but, like her real-life counterpart Cheryl Bradshaw, gets out of the encounter alive. Alcala died in...
- 10/28/2024
- by Elizabeth Yuko
- Rollingstone.com
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