H. H. Holmes: Original Evil

Moviecut—H. H. Holmes: Original Evil

I've watched many documentaries on true crime but this documentary was an attempt by a high schoolers videography assignment on Macbeth. It will only take you 2 minutes to realize that since they juxtaposed the description of a murder hotel to the tune of whimsical music. Just aweful.

This is undoubtedly the worst thing I have ever seen and it's actually upset me because of how horrible it is. I created this account just to vent. First of all, what the heck is up with the background music? The first thing I noticed was how odd the music was, it's weird how upbeat it is considering the topic... and it just keeps looping and looping. That's the first thing that threw me off but I kept watching. Well, watching didn't work out due to the fact that there's no point in even looking at the screen because nothing on the screen has anything to do with the topic! It's just old silent clips of unrelated NONSENSE mixed with random footage that's OBVIOUSLY from the 2000's. What is going on here? Was his fourth wife in the circus? Otherwise, why are we watching old clips of random women doing tricks with a chair and playing on a swing? It's ridiculous. I eventually realized how stupid it was to even be watching as if anything shown mattered. It made me feel dumb just looking at the images. So, then I started just listening without watching and realized what absolute trash the entire thing is... even him just telling the story was slow and uninteresting. He kept pausing as if I needed to finish watching a scene before he continued... but there is nothing to watch! I tried to salvage this by thinking of it as a podcast but even then, this would be the worst podcast I've ever listened to. This was an absolute disaster and should be removed from every platform and completely destroyed. I can't understand why ANYONE thought this should be made like this or released anywhere. If I had submitted this as my final project for 10th grade film class, I would have failed the class.

I had hoped to learn new info about Holmes and be somewhat fascinated. This is NOT the place for that. The B-rate horror footage, drawn out narration and ridiculous music create a film I can't even imagine those involved found appealing. For me to rate a topic I find enthralling so low speaks volumes. I finally stopped watching with only 10 minutes left knowing there was no way the ending would be satisfying at all. I wish I had read the other reviews before watching and avoided this!

I turned this on for background noise. I used to live in Chicago, and like everyone in the early aughts, I read Devil in the White City. I don't know a great deal more about Holmes, but it only took me a few minutes to catch an error in this film - they state that the "murder hotel" was in downtown Chicago. Except it was on the South Side near the 1893 World's Fair (per google, it was actually on the corner of 63rd and S. Wallace - so 60 blocks, give or take a few, from downtown Chicago). After noticing this, I checked Wikipedia to see if anything else I was listening to was actually correct - and NOTICED THAT QUITE A BIT OF THE NARRATION IS LIFTED VERBATIM FROM WIKIPEDIA. .....wow. I turned it off.

Awful with weird audio track running constantly on a loop. I couldn't get through it. Nor did I want to. It was all over the place. Very strange.

It's hard to believe that this documentary is made in 2018. It could easily have fooled me as having been made 30 years ago. I actually would not have been suprised if this was made at home with a personal computer and a budget of 0£. It is hard to concentrate because of the horrible soundtrack, which is a 2 minute cheap sequence of misplaced music played on a loop. It is actually as annoying as the dreadfully unprofessional, dull and irritating narrating that constantly left me wanting to hit the fast forward button. Pictures and scenes are also re-used throughout the 70 minutes long nightmare to such an extent that before i had reached 1/4 into it, i started thinking that this documentary should have lasted for 20 minutes due to lack of material and dragged out scenes. This could have been a really interesting story, that is in the hands of people who actually belong in the business of making documentaries. For the love of god, stear away from this, and spare yourself from thinking about how you can get the last 70 minutes of your life back.

Between the dramatizations and graphics, this was a piss poor excuse for a documentary.

You can't pay attention to the information because the images are distracting because they have nothing to do with the story. There's no purpose in the filming. Then the narrator has these long pauses that make you want to hang yourself. It's just...don't watch this one.

At 1:10, there is an American Express Accepted Here sticker in the background of the shot.