When his job in porn production ends, a mob boss in charge, Roy Demeo (Ray Liotta), lays off Kuklinski while noting the emptiness in his eyes. The birth of his first child right after meets the previous scene a little too cutely, though dealt with swiftly before more of his notorious work. When pool-hall banter turns to insults against her (to underscore repression, the barbs concern her chastity), Kuklinski slices the offender’s throat without missing a step down an alleyway.
Like Henry, the film includes an ironic romance, in the brief courtship of Richard and Deborah (Winona Rider). Normal to him, his murderous routine is a delirium to us for him, family is a fantasy he deceived his loved ones into believing. From afar, this take on Kuklinski reflects the collective repression of the middle class, though the film remains subjective. With no reaction to killing, Kuklinski heads a family in an attempt to find humanity in his deep void. No such pleasure comes to Kuklinski, played by a very reliable Michael Shannon.
1973 THE ICEMAN KILLER SERIAL
The obvious reference point is John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, a film that shocks as much by revealing Henry’s quiet life, though his murders bring to him thrills (fueled partially by the involvement of his co-hort, Otis).
1973 THE ICEMAN KILLER SERIES
His narrative requires a series of such events, and since the most bizarre aspect of the man was his normal family life, The Iceman also captures the mundane that frames the gruesome killings. His recollections reveal many means of murder, from shootings and stabbings to cyanide, airborne or planted in food. Kuklinski, who died in 2006 while serving a life sentence in New Jersey, confessed to having killed somewhere between 100 and 200 people. And yet in adapting his story for a feature film, director Ariel Vroman and his co-writers wisely conceive the mob hitman’s story thus. Carroll asserts that Richard Kuklinski was not a serial killer. In the documentary The Iceman Tapes (1992), Assistant Attorney General Robert J.
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