Social media users were left shocked and scared after watching a highly anticipated movie on Netflix.
Thriller Woman of the Hour has been highly praised by terrified fans who know the real story behind Anna Kendrick’s new film.
An X user who watched the movie early this morning called it “really good” even though it left his heart racing “pretty much the entire time.”
He ‘imperfect tone‘, in which Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, a contestant on The Dating Game who almost went on a date with serial killer Rodney Alcalá, also made viewers reflect on her crimes.
One X user who felt “compelled to speak out” wrote: “Women, mothers and girls, please watch this movie and really think about the message.”
Anna Kendrick’s highly anticipated Netflix film The Woman of the Hour has left viewers terrified after its debut on the streaming platform.
Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, a contestant on The Dating Game, who almost went on a date with serial killer Rodney Alcala.
“As a woman, this movie really captured a lot of legitimate fears and now I’m angry,” the X user aggregate.
Another user admitted to having a ‘difficult time‘ watching the first scene and insisted that everyone follow their instincts before meeting someone.
Various other spectators They expressed their excitement about seeing the film, with at least five Netflix streamers dubbing this day “Woman’s Day of the Hour.”
They also praised Kendrick’s direction, with one person writing that they were “excited to see what she directs next.”
In the photo: Rodney Alcalá in ‘The Woman of the Hour’
Several X users were terrified by Woman of the Hour and insisted that streamers pay attention to the real story behind the film.
Despite widespread praise, not all streamers loved ‘Woman of the Hour,’ with one Reddit user even claiming that the ‘boring’ film ‘would have worked better in 1997.’
“Any movie that goes straight to Netflix without even having a token theatrical release should be viewed with suspicion,” one Reddit user wrote in a post. mail this morning.
One person asked if ‘Woman of the Hour’ was a rip-off of ‘Late Night with the Devil,’ and another was stunned to see that it ‘wasn’t a Lifetime movie.’
Several social media users gave reviews based on their personal preferences, and several Reddit commenters were unimpressed with Woman of the Hour.
Woman of the Hour centers on Bradshaw (Kendrick), a California woman trying to break into the entertainment industry.
Bradshaw’s journey leads her to become a contestant on a 1978 episode of The Dating Game, in which Alcalá appeared.
He asked questions and chatted with the three contestants before choosing to go on a date with Alcalá.
What Bradshaw didn’t know was Alcalá’s disturbing past and the heinous murders he committed before appearing on the show.
The hopeful single eventually got a weird vibe from Alcalá and ultimately refused to go on a date with him.
Woman of the Hour focuses on The Dating Game contestant Cheryl Bradshaw and the events before and after her appearance on the game show.
Alcalá’s crime spree began years before he killed his alleged first murder victim in 1971.
He assaulted several young women while in the military in the 1960s and nearly killed eight-year-old Tali Shapiro in 1968.
Alcalá escaped from police and murdered at least four more women before appearing on The Dating Game.
It took years for law enforcement to finally capture ‘The Dating Game’ killer in 1979, but he had already murdered 12-year-old Jill Parenteau and Robin Samsoe before he was arrested.
He was ultimately linked to eight murders, but authorities believe the number of victims is much higher.
Alcalá died of natural causes while on death row in 2021, and Bradshaw is apparently living a quiet life after moving from California.
Rodney Alcalá appeared on an episode of The Dating Show in 1978 and landed a date with his bachelorette, Cheryl Bradshaw (left).
Critics who have seen the film since its debut on Netflix have praised it and its Tomatometer rose as high as 92 percent on rotten tomatoes.
It also left them a little scared, with one reviewer insisting it was “entertaining and worrying in turns.’
“More a social commentary than a pulp thriller, the film spends more time listening to the women who were long ignored – those who suspected him, those who trusted him, those who reported him – than it does ogling his crimes. “wrote one critic for Empire.
“It is not necessary to see the evil inflicted on a woman to feel her suffering.”
“The Woman of the Hour will surely have many seeking out this stranger-than-fiction story,” wrote one reviewer of the Associated Press.
“But Kendrick’s achievement is to capture, from a woman’s point of view, how difficult it can be to cast a serial killer among an all-male cast.”