This Mindhunter First Look Is Pure David Fincher Goodness
Fincher, after all, directed Se7en and Zodiac, two of the best serial killer movies ever made, and Mindhunter is his take on the overdone but endlessly fascinating criminal profiler genre.
The first line of the trailer is a woman's voice calmly saying I mean, imagine what it takes to bludgeon someone to death -- the lust for control, the feeling of arousal, the decision to humiliate her corpse.
Gein was a serial killer who inspired fictional characters like Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, while Douglas has inspired Hannibal's Will Graham, Criminal Minds' Jason Gideon, The Silence of the Lamb's Jack Crawford and now Mindhunters' Holden Ford, played by Hamilton's Jonathan Groff.