Review – James Elroy presents Bazaar Bizarre

I’ve long thought that the bizarre crimes of Kansas City serial killer Bob Berdella would make a good movie. Unfortunately, this ain’t it. Instead, this is a half-assed mélange of bad interviews, graphic re-creation of the crimes, and James Elroy opining that Berdella deserved to suffer for his misdeeds (which, however true, isn’t exactly the world’s most profound sentiment). As an extra added bonus, we get long interludes devoted to performances by an awful local band (friends of the producers, perhaps?) singing songs of no apparent direct relevance (except for the final song, which is actually about Bob). The re-enactments are sufficiently disgusting to provide a little shock value, but beyond that the most entertainment I got out of the whole thing was counting the fact errors in the Netflix description (three serious ones in a single paragraph). See if desperate