GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

christopher-underwood That this is such a perfect work created from such a dark and dirty tale is a tribute to all involved. The tight, near claustrophobic direction from Fletcher ensures we can almost smell the dour details and surroundings of this desperate dwelling in the Notting Hill area of London at the end of the 40s. The war is over but the ruined buildings and their surviving inhabitants are barely held together. Attenborough conveys in a towering but terrifying performance the very essence of a weak and pathetic creature clinging on because of the depth of his depravity and need for victims. John Hurt and Judy Geeson are also excellent, each probably giving one of their best ever performances. It is the intensity of the acting, the very grime and grimness of the building they share and the streets they walk that make one flinch at the very sight and sound of life within this horrible unforgiving little world, largely orchestrated by and for the benefit of Mr Christie, with his numerous and wretched little cups of tea. After watching this and managing to extricate myself from the horrible atmosphere depicted I was astonished to discover that subsequent to the hanging and subsequent pardoning and re-burial of Timothy Evans there is now a consensus that suggests that maybe he really did kill his wife and child. This still leaves the psychopathic necrophilic serial killer that was Christie but even so....

Prismark10 American director Richard Fleischer could sometimes ham up his films but shows a sure footing here showing a shabby, dishevelled post war London in this film chronicling a notorious miscarriage of justice, one which took an important step in the abolition of capital punishment from the British statute books.Richard Attenborough is chilling as the softly spoken charlatan John Christie, who claimed to know it all and who enticed women to his home in the pretext of inducing an abortion but who used his gas set up to murder women and then it is hinted, committed sexual acts on their dead bodies before hiding the corpses.John Hurt plays the dim braggart Timothy Evans who moves in as a tenant in the house along with his wife and baby daughter. The Evans are a tempestuous couple and when Beryl Evans becomes pregnant she has no idea how she would cope as the family were financially unstable.Christie kills Beryl by coaxing her to abort the foetus and also kills the infant child. Timothy Evans who was illiterate as well as being not too bright was easily manipulated by Christie and easy pickings for the police. He was hanged in 1950 but when other corpses were later found in 10 Rillington Place, the criminal justice system realised their gross error.Attenborough's quiet creep is magnificent but a youthful John Hurt is also effective as the simpleton Hurt. Fleischer makes good use of location shooting showing a London where people disappeared all too easily during the blitz.

gioconda91423 The first time I saw this movie was at least 30 years ago. Sleepless night. Richard Attenboroughs' portrayal of the nerdy "doctor" who was a real life serial killer terrified. Watched again 10 years later. Same effect. No sleep.Sets are extremely claustrophobic & the soundtrack of endless clattering tea cups & kettles, w/trains rattling by the flat all day & night are a set-up to hiss of gas pipes that creates an ambiance so depressing, eerie, and unbelievably frightening when you realize what's coming to Christie's victims...aagh. This movie is as suspense-filled as any Hitchcock movie.John Hurt ~ electrifying as always ~ plays a man falsely accused ~ got the gallows when he had no idea what happened ~ genius performance ~Horribly horrifyig horror movie This is one of the scariest movies ever. Extremely hard to watch but absolute genius acting

MartinHafer In the 1940s and 50s, a sick little pervert gassed, raped and strangled at least eight different people. This movie is a dramatization of some of his murders.The film begins during WWII and shows, with a bit too much detail, the murder of one of John Christie's victims. Then, the film jumps ahead to 1949 and follows one particular set of victims. Christie (Richard Attenborough) is the landlord for a couple (John Hurt and Judy Geeson). The couple are quite poor and dysfunctional and with the approach of an unwanted pregnancy, Christie offers to help. He claims to have a medical background and will perform an abortion. However, he intends to instead gas, rape and strangle her like his other victims. After her rape/murder, Christie tells the husband that she died as a result of the abortion. What happens next makes this an even sadder tale--but you'll have to see a terrible miscarriage of justice.This film is somewhat hard to watch. While the rape/murders are not shown in full detail, enough is shown to make the viewer uncomfortable--especially since the Christie murders at 10 Rillington Place actually did occur. No one knows just how many people he raped and killed, but they know of at least eight. The acting is very good (I particularly admired the acting of Attenborough but John Hurt was also very nice) and the film is technically well made--but also very, very unpleasant. I did not like the film but must praise it as a quality production.