27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Was a cluster of serial killers in the north-east US partly caused by industrial toxins, a new book asks
Non-fiction
A recent rewatch of Se7en, David Lynch's 1995 thriller, was a reminder of a strange time in western culture: when serial killers were all the rage.
From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, these monsters and their 'Grand Guignol' crimes were everywhere. Every second movie had a serial killer villain, as did TV phenomenon Twin Peaks; American Psycho and Hannibal Lecter were literary sensations. Even bands got in the act: Antrim rockers Therapy? with Trigger Inside, off the Troublegum album, U2 with Exit from The Joshua Tree.
