Review – H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer

I admit to a fascination with H.H. Holmes’s notorious “murder castle,” a building designed to facilitate its creator’s practice of killing people and dismembering their bodies. But even though I liked director John Borowski’s later work on a similar piece about Albert Fish, I found this production wanting. The only interesting part about the Holmes story is his building. Beyond that he’s just another con artist slash serial killer, neither the last nor the first America would ever suffer (despite the title’s claim). Sadly, this relatively short picture spends far too much time on the more mundane parts of the killer’s career. Mildly amusing