Saturday, May 11, 2013

Scarred Angel


Since their 1958 crime spree, the real life crimes of Charles Starkweather and his accomplice Caril Fugate have inspired countless fiction portrayals of a young murderous couple on a cross-country rampage: The Sadist (1963), Badlands (1973), Stark Raving Mad (1983), Murder in the Heartland (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), and Starkweather (2004). Heath Lowrance understands the trope well and makes it his own in "Scarred Angel."

Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in Badlands.

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