Review – Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan

Serial rapist Billy Milligan’s successful use of the insanity defense raises more than one docuseries-worthy question. Is Dissociative Identity Disorder a real thing, and if so how does it differ from Hollywood’s version of people with multiple personalities? Can it be used to establish the legal grounds for an insanity plea? And in this particular case, did Milligan authentically have DID, or was he a clever sociopath pulling a con? As moot as these questions may objectively be, they become downright irrelevant once they’re buried under a heap of terrible filmmaking. Director Olivier Megaton serves up a fidgety mess of jump cuts, heavy filter work and ominous soundtrack. He arranges interviews with key subjects ranging from attorneys to psychiatrists to journalists to family members (Milligan’s, not his victims’). But then he films them in peculiar, random locations, such as abandoned prisons, empty churches and bank vaults. The result is consistent with the Netflix aesthetic, which unfortunately makes it an unpleasant viewing experience. See if desperate