Ryan the singing serial killer

He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a district court in A senior police investigator who worked on the case said Gribaldi later died in prison in Medan, North Sumatra. He skipped school and fraternised with gangsters in Senen neighbourhood. He made a living by driving cabs and selling falsified vehicle registration and ownership documents. After marriage in , he became a car thief, although he told his wife he sold clothes. He was jailed for one year for car theft. In , he decided to steal rental cars in cities from Surabaya to Semarang and Yogyakarta to Banyumas.

Armed with a hammer in each hand, he killed four rental car owners in hotel rooms. He was sentenced to death in May In Nusakambangan Island prison, he embraced Islam.

In May , on his 27th birthday, he killed his cellmate Iwan Zulkarnaen 34 , who was serving 14 years for embezzling Rp40 billion from Indonesia Post. Iwan had said that while Rio was feared on the outside, he was nothing in jail without a hammer. Rio was executed on August 8, at the age of Not so much a serial killer as mass murder. Since , she had run the Wisma Happy Home brothel, famous for its beautiful girls and women. A senior Navy official, Lieutenant Colonel Purwanto, was a regular visitor and wanted part of the profits.

She had to give him Rp22 million per month rising by Rp1 million each year. Any late payments incurred interest. After police raids deterred customers, Sumiasih could not make the payments on time. Sumiasih married Wati off to a local policeman in late Furious, Purwanto sent thugs to attack Happy House and its staff. Sumiasih plotted revenge. Armed with pestles, they killed Purwanto and four members of his family.

Sumiasih, Djais, Sugeng and Adi Saputro all received the death penalty in late Adi was executed in December Djais died from illness in prison in Sumiasih and Sugeng were executed in July Astini came from a poor family and was raised by a strict stepbrother.

She was easily offended. A mother of three children, she murdered and mutilated three women inside her rented house in the East Java capital of Surabaya because they asked her to repay loans. She killed her first victim, Rahayu, in over a disputed debt of Rp1.

Astini felt her repayment of Rp, was sufficient. The second victim, Sri Astuti, was killed in November when trying to collect a debt of Rp, One of her hands was later found by a scavenger. In January , Astini killed Puji Astutik, who had repeatedly asked her to repay a loan of Rp90, Astini said Puji had insulted her by calling her poor. Jerry Reynolds is a cheerful and very positive guy, who works at a bathtub factory.

He lives alone, above a bowling alley, and often hallucinates that his cat and dog are talking to him; they also sometimes convince him to do things he really doesn't want to do. Jerry lost his mother Valerie Koch , due to similar mental issues at a very young age , and he's been assigned a psychiatrist, named Dr.

Warren Weaver , because of it. He also has a huge crush on an office coworker, named Fiona Arterton. Things begin to go horribly wrong, one night, when Jerry asks Fiona out on a date, and she stands him up. The movie is pretty much all shown through Jerry's eyes.

So even though horrific things keep happening, throughout the film, it mostly maintains a pretty positive and upbeat tone. This makes for a very strange, disturbing and darkly comedic film.

I'm really torn about how I actually feel about it, because it kind of bothered me in a lot of ways. Still it's very interesting, in very strange ways, and also pretty entertaining, in just as weird ways.

The highlight of the movie, is Ryan Reynolds' performance; he's pretty much never been better. The rest of the cast is good as well, which makes me really wonder how the filmmakers were able to attract such a talented, and very likable, cast.

Pjtaylor 5 March Thankfully, the piece manages to pull its contrasting elements together remarkably well without pulling any punches or picking the wrong moments to place an ill-informed gag, aside from the finale dance number which comes out of left field and feels much sillier in tone than anything preceding it.

It's an odd flick to get on board with, though, and surely won't be for everyone. FeastMode 26 June Decent movie, decent story, some interesting, funny and creepy parts. Marjane Satrapi bought her fame with the formidable "Persepolis", one of those books that promoted comics at the most serious artistic level, a largely autobiographical story describing the author's childhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran.

After bringing this book to screen into an excellent animated film, Satrapi began a career as an actors feature films director, experimenting in different genres. It's a movie that may mislead if you look at the poster and even after watching about a quarter of it.

It starts as a sweet romantic comedy in an American town. It continues in something completely different, gloomy and decadent, and those who are afraid of spoilers should better stop reading here.

Fans of political correctness and those who are really scared by horror movies can also give up. The rest are invited to join the adventure. The story takes place in a very typical American town, where the main attractions are the bowling alley and the burgers and Chinese restaurants. Jerry Ryan Reynolds , the hero of the film, works in a factory that packs something in big boxes, stacks them and ships them.

Jerry looks good, he's a nice guy, the girls in the accounting and finance departments compete to be chosen by him for a date, and even his weirdness of talking loud with his dog and cat its very cued pets, by the way when coming home does not seem something to worry about, after all this happens all the time in the Disney studio movies.

Maybe we should be a little worried about his regular visits to the psychologist, but she excellently played by Jacki Weaver seems more psychotic than her patient, a situation which often happens in reality. For me at least it was a surprise when the story went crazy. Really badly crazy. I liked the way Marjane Satrapi tells the story. It's a black comedy, a horror movie packaged as a romantic comedy with talking animals. When the romance and the voices of the animals turn out to be the visions of a serial killer, the viewer understands that everything until then was a very well executed convention.

Fragments of reality are interspersed, but the vision remains that of the hero. If we are to look for a classic reference, then it would be Hitchcock's 'Psycho' if it had been filmed from the perspective of Norman Bates.

Even when blood starts to flow, we are not allowed to completely enter the horror mood because it's then only that the romance between Jerry and Lisa begins, and Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick are the perfect actors for a romantic comedy. The cinematography and the sets are excellently designed, and the bowling alley on the floor of which the hero's home is located has a chance to become a cult film setting.

Don't make the mistake of leaving viewing when everything seems to be over, because the ending and the credits provide another commercial packaging for the horror story, that of a musical. Is the musical 'The Voices' in preparation for Broadway? I would not be that surprised.

Ryan Reynolds — often thought of as one of those actors who gets by on his looks over his acting ability. Not true. He's actually pretty good and I've been saying that since I saw him in 'The Nines. Unfortunately —for the afore-mentioned 'everybody' — he's also completely insane.

His primary flaw besides his traumatic childhood which you'll learn more about if you watch the film is that he's lonely and, because of this, he's started lying to his psychiatrist about taking his medication. And, without his pills, he's started hearing voices. Throughout the film you'll see the world through Jerry's eyes where more than just the TV talks, namely his cat and dog — both of which give him dubious advice to put it mildly.

And, without medication, it's not long before Jerry's actions start becoming more and more dark — to the point of murderous. It would be quiet easy to despise Jerry for his actions, but, as you'll see, he really is as much of a victim as those who die at his hands. It's not so much a case as you'll be rooting for a killer as you'll be hoping he finds some sort of happiness or professional help that actually HELPS him!

Plus it's funny. Okay, so grisly and horrific murder is never really a laughing matter, but the fact that all the violence is — technically — orchestrated by an evil talking cat and dog does go some way to lighten the mood. If there is a definition of a 'black comedy' then this is definitely it! You don't have to like horror or drama, just dark humour. That's the key to enjoying this film. It's as tragic as it's funny and there are many occasions where you won't know whether to laugh or cry.

It'll never be mainstream as it's too dark for big screen success. I advise watching it and then enjoying the fact that you'll probably be the only person among your circle of friends who's seen it.

Spread the word — it's good gory fun. I think the premise for this was really fantastic. And while the film is decent, it has some laughs, some twisted, fun moments, it was a little bit.. I feel like with a better script the film could've been an instant cult classic. As it is, it also doesn't always blend the line between comedy and horror as well as it should have. Sometimes it just doesn't really counteract well.

Ryan Reynolds, though, is the best thing about the film and in no way does he let the film down. He's absolutely perfect and this is by far the best I've ever seen him be. He does blend that line perfectly. He's both terrifying and sympathetic in his own way. Problems aside, it's still a good film that I suppose could've also been handled far worse. He stays to himself and is pretty much limited to conversations with his pets. When he develops a crush on Fiona Arterton he is excited that she agrees to meet him for a date.

When she doesn't show Jerry's true personality comes out. This is a difficult movie to recommend. I liked it and laughed some but it is very , very dark. Most comedies about murder and death are dark but Ryan Reynolds is such a likable guy that it really adds to the experience and tone of the movie.

If you are not easily offended or disturbed this is one to watch, if you are I would avoid this. Overall, a funny but very dark comedy that I thought was funny, but it isn't for everyone.

I give it a B-. But, my understanding came in rewinding to Fiona's death scene in the forest in trying to figure out why she was bloodied on bare earth one day then a day later angelically dead with white flowers growing around her the white flowered dress also added to the revelation. The film presents a psychologically disturbed individual's Ryan as Jerry view of what's happening taking animals and heads , alternating with reality which included what he saw when he took his medication.

The film tries to show, in it's clever way, the life of someone who can pass as "normal" yet be dangerously psychotic or schizophrenic. For more stars I would have finished in a tone consistent with rest of the film such as the alternate ending shown in special features. Also worth watching in special features is how the CGI was created and Ryan practicing his character voices. Greetings from Lithuania. This is a very well made film, because this genre is difficult to pull of successfully.

Script is good, there are some funny moments, but most of them come from R rating and it's "free of speech". Acting was solid, pacing directing very good, at running time 1 h 40 min this movie doesn't drag and is involving from start till finish.

Overall, "The Voices" is a good black R rated comedy. It's not the most original or great, but it's definitely worth seeing. It's has solid lead acting and supportive cast was OK. Always smiling, upbeat and cheerful, a young factory worker casually hides the fact that he imagines his pets speaking to him; things take a macabre turn though as his spiteful cat leads him astray in this very dark black comedy from Marjane Satrapi, who also helmed the equally fascinating 'Persepolis'.

Satrapi includes some great touches, such as contrasting shots of what the protagonist's world looks like when he is on and off medication and the subtle special effects used to make the cat and dog's mouths move makes his one-way conversations with them eerily realistic. The film's best asset though is the casting of Ryan Reynolds in the lead role. It's a performance that has been compared to Anthony Perkins in 'Psycho' with good reason; both are equally boyish, affable characters who we cannot help but sympathise with slightly no matter what they do.

For those not easily offended and interested in something weird, unusual and daringly different, this is an easy recommendation. It is also a motion picture best entered into with as few expectations as possible since a fair bit of its uncanny nature comes from unexpected directions.

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