Really solid show. A lot of the other crime shows don't always cover all the aspects which I want to know about. What I like about the show is that it covers basically everything, from childhood and earlier development to sentencing or death. I like the fact that they give 2 episodes for each killer which assists in the episodes having enough time to go through most of the facts.
19 Reviews
Donnie Wahlberg makes this great true crime series excellent
jstewart-261949 August 2021
Great, informative, and detailed. This series will leave you satisfied that every angle of the crime has been portrayed.
Very Scary People also shines new light on sometimes decades old stories and makes them feel new and intriguing.
As a bonus, many episodes are 2- part, 2 hour examinations of the subject.
Adding greatly to the texture of the production of Very Scary People is host Donnie Walhberg. Mr. Walhlberg is EXCELLENT! He has the perfect tone for this kind of show and he perfectly sets the stage for the stories.
One of the very best true crime series and the very best host , Donnie Wahlberg.
Very Scary People also shines new light on sometimes decades old stories and makes them feel new and intriguing.
As a bonus, many episodes are 2- part, 2 hour examinations of the subject.
Adding greatly to the texture of the production of Very Scary People is host Donnie Walhberg. Mr. Walhlberg is EXCELLENT! He has the perfect tone for this kind of show and he perfectly sets the stage for the stories.
One of the very best true crime series and the very best host , Donnie Wahlberg.
Enjoyable
bpierce-3207919 July 2021
I'm probably like most people nowadays and love a good Serial Killer documentary and Donnie Wahlberg in my opinion is a great choice for narrator. He has that voice and presence to make the show appealing. That hallway that he is standing in when he speaks reminds me of the same hallway or similar looking as the one from Saw 2 that he stared in.
Excellent documentary style outlining murder sprees and other heinous crimes of infamous people
Ed-Shullivan15 April 2019
Actor Donnie Wahlberg (Blue Bloods) introduces a summary of each episode and provides us with the name and preferred M.O. (modus operandi) of some of the most infamous serial killers and serial rapists in the United States. Each episode provides the background story of these evil criminals from their early childhood through to their eventual arrest and/or the current status of an elusive killer such as in the case of the Zodiac Killer which remains unsolved some six decades later.
Each entire episode stands on its own merit as a first rate documentary absent of any unwarranted and unnecessary sensationalism, and sticks to the facts of the case with intermiitent video of the actual criminal(s) during their arrests and/or while in court proceedings during their trials.
If you are a fan of documentaries that report on serial killers and serial rapists like many average and well adjusted normal people are, then you will be intrigued by the detail provided into the lives of these heinous villains who are most disturbed and cunning.
Each entire episode stands on its own merit as a first rate documentary absent of any unwarranted and unnecessary sensationalism, and sticks to the facts of the case with intermiitent video of the actual criminal(s) during their arrests and/or while in court proceedings during their trials.
If you are a fan of documentaries that report on serial killers and serial rapists like many average and well adjusted normal people are, then you will be intrigued by the detail provided into the lives of these heinous villains who are most disturbed and cunning.
Missing
wendyawightman27 August 2022
I am currently watching Very Scary People and am up to the Coed Killer, Season 2. I am overall satisfied by the subject matter and am learning new things from the episodes. I actually lived about a mile from John Gacy in the 1970's while he was doing his evil deeds...I have just one question: Why did the producers leave out the story of Ted Bundy? I am not a serial killer fanatic, nor a crazed groupie, but Ted Bundy certainly was one of the scariest people in the world while alive, and is, in my opinion, the prototype from which the terms serial killer originated. If you are going to cover the history of these types of criminals, why leave out one of the most notorious, evil, and, to me, fascinating serial killers of all time. Just curious...
No death penalty for serial killers?
honestjohng11 May 2021
When you watch and see the evil that some "people' possess inside of their warped mind, it can only make some think of why they just don't have their contract on life cancelled. Innocent men & women have everything taken away from them, their families suffer forever and yet these sadistic killers live when they should have been taken out and put on the gallows after the verdict is read. Plea deals may be necessary in some cases but should be avoided at al costs.
Repetitive...
cmskellington-983-41846619 January 2021
I'm sure they'll get around to........
ghdennis1 April 2024
Carl Eugene Watts, Wayne Williams, Samuel Little, Henry Louis Wallace, Lorenzo Gillard, Maury Travis, Eddie Lee Mosley, John Floyd Thomas, Jake Bird, Roberta Elder, Chester Turner.
Watts, dubbed by the press as the "Sunday Morning Slasher," Watts was assumed to be experiencing delusion after being diagnosed with Meningitis. When he was younger, he used to hunt rabbits and stalk his female classmates, then he committed his first murder at 15 years old. According to AP, he killed for a span of eight years claiming the lives of 14 to 100 women.
In 1981, Williams was arrested for the murders of two adult men. However, during his trial, prosecutors suggested he was also behind a string of 22 murders of children in Atlanta. Though he maintained his innocence, forensic evidence from his home and vehicle connected him to several victims. He was sentenced to life in prison, though many people still believe he is innocent.
Little is known as the most prolific serial killer not just because of his crimes but because he confessed to a large number of unsolved murders just two years before he died. Little had been killing since the 50s but was sentenced for good in 2014 for killing three women in the 80s. His DNA was then connected to another string of strangulations. In an interview with a Texas Ranger, he confessed to unsolved killings in over a dozen states bringing the total up to 93 people dead.
If they are going to profile serial killers, they should not let silly criteria such as race, gender, age of the victims filter their profiles.
Watts, dubbed by the press as the "Sunday Morning Slasher," Watts was assumed to be experiencing delusion after being diagnosed with Meningitis. When he was younger, he used to hunt rabbits and stalk his female classmates, then he committed his first murder at 15 years old. According to AP, he killed for a span of eight years claiming the lives of 14 to 100 women.
In 1981, Williams was arrested for the murders of two adult men. However, during his trial, prosecutors suggested he was also behind a string of 22 murders of children in Atlanta. Though he maintained his innocence, forensic evidence from his home and vehicle connected him to several victims. He was sentenced to life in prison, though many people still believe he is innocent.
Little is known as the most prolific serial killer not just because of his crimes but because he confessed to a large number of unsolved murders just two years before he died. Little had been killing since the 50s but was sentenced for good in 2014 for killing three women in the 80s. His DNA was then connected to another string of strangulations. In an interview with a Texas Ranger, he confessed to unsolved killings in over a dozen states bringing the total up to 93 people dead.
If they are going to profile serial killers, they should not let silly criteria such as race, gender, age of the victims filter their profiles.
Not a bad show but has flaws
On_The_Mark19 November 2022
Wahlberg is a good host and the show is well produced. They have a lot of audio and sometimes video of the killers which is a big plus. They have a lot of the principals of the case talking about it which is good.
The bad is bad though. There are always people who had literally nothing to do with the case talking abotu it as if they did - including the annoying "criminal psychologists" who give us insight us dumb people would never get.
"He had a bad childhood and this brought about his inclinations to kill people as an adult."
Really? We would have never had gotten that. A lot of these people talking about the cases were most likely given the fact to read just before they taped their "interview." Most of these people weren't even born when the crimes happened.
Also the episodes are stretched to two episodes each which means you get tons of repetition. You even get the "interviewees" saying the same thing multiple times - it's annoying.
Overall the show is done well but do not forget, they did a show on Richard Klukinski, who was charged with 5 murders that we know of. It's possible he did another one or two maybe. But this guy, after he was caught, was making up so much baloney and they try to pass it off here as fact.
In his book he was supposedly running into rapists every other day and killing them. He was involved in road rage every other day and killing these people. All of these "crimes" he takes credit for were investigated and they could never find any evidence of any of them. NOT ONE. He claims he killed Hoffa. Of course it isn't true.
But this show passes it off as fact. There was one guy who said he claims he did over a hundred murders but there is no proof. That's all there was to show he was lying his butt off. The show itself pretends he did commit over a hundred murders and this is unethical and bad TV. I hate this. If you want your show to be respected, don't pass off fake information as fact. The guy killed 5 people and that's probably all there was. But for the purposes of this show they claim over a hundred. So it makes you wonder how many other episodes have incorrect or made up info.
The bad is bad though. There are always people who had literally nothing to do with the case talking abotu it as if they did - including the annoying "criminal psychologists" who give us insight us dumb people would never get.
"He had a bad childhood and this brought about his inclinations to kill people as an adult."
Really? We would have never had gotten that. A lot of these people talking about the cases were most likely given the fact to read just before they taped their "interview." Most of these people weren't even born when the crimes happened.
Also the episodes are stretched to two episodes each which means you get tons of repetition. You even get the "interviewees" saying the same thing multiple times - it's annoying.
Overall the show is done well but do not forget, they did a show on Richard Klukinski, who was charged with 5 murders that we know of. It's possible he did another one or two maybe. But this guy, after he was caught, was making up so much baloney and they try to pass it off here as fact.
In his book he was supposedly running into rapists every other day and killing them. He was involved in road rage every other day and killing these people. All of these "crimes" he takes credit for were investigated and they could never find any evidence of any of them. NOT ONE. He claims he killed Hoffa. Of course it isn't true.
But this show passes it off as fact. There was one guy who said he claims he did over a hundred murders but there is no proof. That's all there was to show he was lying his butt off. The show itself pretends he did commit over a hundred murders and this is unethical and bad TV. I hate this. If you want your show to be respected, don't pass off fake information as fact. The guy killed 5 people and that's probably all there was. But for the purposes of this show they claim over a hundred. So it makes you wonder how many other episodes have incorrect or made up info.
Hard to hear dialogue
Portlysquirrel8 August 2023
The music is so ridiculously loud to me, that it drowns out much of the dialogue. I have to keep turning up the volume, but it doesn't seem to help. I hope they fix this. They touch on a lot of frightening people of our time, making for an interesting show. I do have to use google to fill in the blanks for some, like Rodney Alcala. I wanted to hear from his mother. Did she get any red flags from him? Was she scared or just utterly clueless? Anyway-dial it back on the music. It's completely unnecessary. Wahlberg is a decent host, but wouldn't mind hearing his take on these scary people.........................
It's a rerun of all the big stories
khaliisaar27 August 2021
Great show but it isn't anything we haven't seen before.
It is ironic that it's hosted by Donnie Wahlberg given his brother Mark beat the vision out of a man - Donnie would know what it takes to be a scary person, it seems.
It is ironic that it's hosted by Donnie Wahlberg given his brother Mark beat the vision out of a man - Donnie would know what it takes to be a scary person, it seems.
Too repetitive
estathena218 May 2021
I've watched & somewhat enjoyed the series until season 3's Amityville episodes but the repetitiveness has become too much to endure. The same photos, the same interviews looped, spliced, & played over & over again. Between the shows repetitiveness & the ridiculous commercial breaks, it's off my watch list & DVR record schedule.
Almost
averagebear28 June 2020
All over the place
quockquock8 May 2023
This isn't a bad show, but it's all over the place. You can be watching one segment and it jumps to a totally different subject almost mid sentence. Then you have to figure out what they are talking about, and it's an upcoming segment, but they don't explain this. Then after watching an early segment, they go back and repeat it, almost word for word. It's like they are just filling in for time. The best way to watch this is by using the fast forward button. It's easy to cut two hours of show down to about 70 minutes. Skip the commercials and skip whenever Donnie Wahlberg speaks. He just repeats what has already been said or what's about to be said.
Very well done series
jsperraz20 October 2021
Music Is Too Loud
robert_g_wilson5 May 2021
Very Long Stories
myronlearn6 June 2022
Though the crime stories told in this series are well detailed with a host of credible forensics professionals on hand, the two hour episodes can easily be told in one hour. By stretching it beyond one hour, the second hour is replete with numerous facts we already heard. These redundancies are annoying and unnecessary. They undermine the overall interest and story telling of the given subject matter. 'Very Scary People' should be no longer than sixty minutes.
Why do the narrators continually change-Annoying
tonyk628917 May 2023
I wish the director or writer would see this review. Not a bad show but what is with the narrators reading a few lines then changing to another narrator. Once you notice this, you cant stop and it becomes almost unwatchable. Literally one person will talk for a few sentences then the next person will finish the tought or fact.
Other than that most annoying feature, it is an interesting show and pretty informative. Up until the 90's serial killers ran rampant due to the lack of dna analysis and quality cameras. Very sad the amount of lives lost to these animals that preyed on anyone they could find.
Other than that most annoying feature, it is an interesting show and pretty informative. Up until the 90's serial killers ran rampant due to the lack of dna analysis and quality cameras. Very sad the amount of lives lost to these animals that preyed on anyone they could find.
Loud horrible background music
eddiecarolan17 May 2021
Again with HLN programs this possibly good program is ruined with all the loud obnoxious background music that makes hearing the dialog impossible!!! Why do they have to ruin the show? Same thing with Forensic Files. Guaranteed to give you a busting headache!!
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