How Mindhunter’s Composer Manipulates Sound to Create an Unexpected Score
What kind of music describes the FBI’s early attempts to understand the mind of a serial killer? According to Mindhunter, the David Fincher-produced Netflix series based on Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, the auditory embodiment of this process swings between a creepily high-pitched yet restrained ...
Charlie Manson Appears in Mindhunter‘s Season 2 Trailer
Charlie Manson briefly appears in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, yet his ghoulish specter hangs over the entire movie. In season two of Netflix’s excellent Mindhunters, Manson is back, and like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he’s played by Damian Herriman. You’ll see him in a brief shot in the season two trailer which ...
Cameron Britton Breaks Through Playing Real Life Serial Killer Ed Kemper in Mindhunter
Netflix true crime drama Mindhunter moves efficiently in tracking the origins of forensic science as experienced through FBI odd couple (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) until midway through its second episode. Then, Cameron Britton makes his entrance. Playing real-life 70’s-era serial killer Ed Kemper, Britton strolls into an interrogation room and takes the show in ...
David Fincher Shot 75 Takes of a Single Mindhunter Scene
The brilliant mind of director David Fincher is probably full of every tip and trick available to the contemporary filmmaker, but nothing beats good-old-fashioned perfectionism. Which, for the man behind Netflix’s crime series Mindhunter, means shooting a nine-and-a-half minute scene several times. Well, more than several times. Seventy-five times. In a single day. That’s about ...
Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Shooting David Fincher’s Serial Killer Series Mindhunter
David Fincher does not like the color red. Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt knows this because he shot much of the new Netflix series Mindhunter, executive produced and partially directed by the famously meticulous master of suspense. “Fincher and I both have an aversion to magenta so with Mindhunter we always erred on the side of green/yellow ...
Mindhunter‘s Visual Effects are So Good You Don’t Know They’re There
A new behind-the-scenes clip from Mindhunter highlights just how crazy and intense the editing process can be on a TV show. The serial killer series that you have no doubt been binging on Netflix is trademark David Fincher. It’s dark and suspenseful and you might not realize the benefits of all the digital enhancement that ...
Watch the First Trailer for David Fincher’s Netflix Series Mindhunter
Director David Fincher might be the greatest living director when it comes to crime thrillers. On the big screen, he has delivered a series of sensational crime films, including Se7en, Zodiac, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. Fincher is now one of the leading lights behind Netflix’s new series Mindhunter, based on ...