IF YOU'VE NEVER heard of the “Dating Game Killer,” be prepared for a journey into a freakier-than-fiction true crime tale that ... anyway). The story of said killer, Rodney Alcala, is being ...

Telling my story makes me feel empowered because what was taken from us Jews and so many others was our very humanity.

Also, while this list doesn’t consider how close the film is to the real story in its ranking, it does omit several kinds of films that are “inspired by true events.” Overcrowded lifeboats ...

Kristy Leibowitz According to the book “The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders,” a professor at UCLA, where Alcala was ...

“The Dating Game,” which first premiered in 1965, paired a bachelorette with three eligible bachelors who were obscured behind a wall. The young lady would ask a series of saucy questions to ...

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The Peacock dark comedy returns Nov. 21. By Jackie Strause Managing Editor, East Coast Based on a True Story is based on (or partly inspired by) a true story. The series, which satirizes true ...

A short story by Bram Stoker, the legendary author of "Dracula," has been unearthed by a lifelong enthusiast in Dublin who stumbled upon the work while browsing in a library archive. Titled ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Woman of the Hour, Netflix’s new based-on-true-story serial killer movie, will make you thankful you don’t live in the 1970s. Serial killers could really do ...

Netflix's new film "Woman of the Hour" is based on a true story about serial killer Rodney Alcala. In real life, Alcala competed on "The Dating Game" and won a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw.

Now streaming on Netflix, “Woman of the Hour” tells the story of Rodney Alcala ... But for the most part, the film stays true to reality where it counts. So, here’s what really happened.