Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, releases on Netflix this October – and true crime followers are going to like this film!

Here’s the synopsis from Netflix: “The stranger-than-fiction story of an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial killer in the midst of a yearslong murder spree, whose lives intersect when they’re cast on an episode of The Dating Game.”

Inspired by the actual life story of Cheryl Bradshaw and notorious serial killer Rodney Alcala, Woman of the Hour takes a headline from the seventies and expands on the narrative in addition to how this might assist future potential victims in related conditions.

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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Anna revealed that she’d been hooked up to the undertaking to provide and star in the movie for no less than two years, “as often happens with movies, it was just taking forever, and the pieces weren’t coming together. And then, way too quickly, out of nowhere, you have a start date. And in our case, we had a start date and no director.”

Anna went on to say, (*2*) She ultimately signed on to direct!

Anna hopes that if nothing else, the movie will spotlight the essential message on sufferer blaming, “I was thinking about how even very subtle victim blaming is baked into our culture. Even the most well-meaning people will say things like, ‘Yeah, you really just got to pay attention to those early red flags,’ which is not a nightmare of a thing to say, but man, woof.”

Woman of the Hour is about to launch on Netflix on October 18 simply in time for spooky season! Leading the solid are Anna Kendrick as Cheryl Bradshaw and Daniel Zovatto as serial killer, Rodney Alcala.