Scream: the true story that wasn't

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FROM: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/th...ies/ar-AASAsdD

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- The Real-Life Serial Killer Who Inspired the ‘Scream’ Movies Nick Schager - American history is filled with trailblazers, from Thomas Edison and Henry Ford to Albert Einstein and the Wright Brothers. According to Discovery+’s “Shock Docs” true-crime series, we should presumably add to that illustrious list paranormal expert Steve Shippy and “world renowned psychic medium” Cindy Kaza, who after conversing with serial killer Ed Gein in this past April’s Ed Gein: The Real Psycho now attempt to chat with another famous fiend who inspired a popular horror movie franchise—Danny Rolling, aka the Gainesville Ripper—in Scream: The True Story (Jan. 14). Armed with a variety of ghost-detecting gizmos and Kaza’s preternatural abilities, they “speak” with the deceased and cleanse haunted abodes of demonic energy, along the way helping both the living and the dead transcend their lingering trauma. They’re pioneers in the field of supernatural investigation—provided, of course, that one believes the abject hokum they’re hawking. - Only the naivest individuals will take Scream: The True Story seriously, given that it’s primarily comprised of scenes in which Shippy and Kaza putz around in the dark, telling each other scary stories about real-life crimes while their electronic spookshow-meter alarms go off and creepy specters answer their questions via a two-way radio box. Shippy and Kaza’s adventures are transparently phony, and there’s something downright unethical about the pair’s eagerness to dupe viewers through the promotion of obvious make-believe. They exploit viewers’ gullibility with calculated lies, and that’s once again true with their latest, which—timed to the same-day theatrical debut of the Scream franchise’s fifth installment—aims to find out if Rolling was telling the truth when he claimed (before his 2006 execution) that he slaughtered eight people between 1989-1990 because he was possessed by a demon named Gemini... - (SNIP) -

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