Fans wrapped up in new Netflix crime movie about horrific 'Dating Game Killer'

Netflix added Woman of the Hour, an acclaimed crime thriller , to their fall library, with fans already enjoying the movie, even though it is a "tough watch" at times .

The film, starring Anna Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto, depicts the life story of the 1970s serial killer Rodney Alcala . Alcala was suspected of killing 100 women and convicted of killing seven women by strangling them.

True crime fans have awaited the movie's release to see if it accurately depicts the gruesome events.

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Debut Director Anna Kendrick played the lead, Cheryl Bradshaw, a struggling actress who landed a job on a reality show, "The Dating Game." Daniel Zovatto was cast as Alcala, who appeared on the show as a potential bachelor a year before being charged with the murder of his last known victim. The plot follows Bradshaw's anti-misogynist approach to rising to the top of cable TV and a timeline of Alcala's accounts with his victims until the two meet. In the trailer , Bradshaw is indicated as Alcala's next target.

What's a thriller without dramatic sensationalization? Kendrick and screenwriter Ian McDonald added some discrepancies and played up the relationship between Bradshaw and Alcala in the film.

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Since it was the 1970s, studios did not typically have databases or a way to run background checks, so Alcala already made it on the FBI's Most Wanted List upon going on the show. The real Alcala bragged to the show's other contestants that he "always gets the girl."

In real life, Bradshaw agreed to a date with Alcala through the show but told a staff worker to cancel it before she met up with him.

"Ellen, I can’t go out with this guy. There’s weird vibes that are coming off of him. He’s very strange. I am not comfortable," Bradshaw told contestant coordinator Ellen Metzger, who recalled the request to the press.

Despite the movie version changes , the filmmakers and Zovatto still painted Alcala as creepy and disturbing.

“Woman of the Hour will surely send many looking up this stranger-than-fiction story. But Kendrick’s achievement is in capturing, from a woman’s point of view, just how hard it can be to pick a serial killer out of an all-male line-up," Associated Press wrote in a review of the latest Netflix original.