Tattoo sporting white supremacists make skin crawl, almost as much as the violence perpetrated in the name of hate. Expanded from an Academy Award winning short, Guy Nattiv’s Skin, a feature at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, stars a scary Jamie Bell, in over his head with a homeland terrorist “family.” Dad is Bill Camp, mom Shareen, a woman so smooth as she recruits new warriors into their hate group, offering sandwiches and hugs to runaways, you can see why Bryon could be so gulled, until he meets a family offering the dream of a “normal” life. Still, with his facial tats, he could never pass. And besides, they’d never let him leave.

At the Tribeca festival, producers Celine Rattray and Oren Moverman, and many from the cast moved on to Tau for a swank after party. Vera Farmiga explained how she created Shareen, imagining the human side of those who choose hate. Hurt people hurt others. Helped in breaking away by an agent named Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Bryon endures the pain of tat removal, and many other difficulties. Daryle has pin up headshots of haters he’s turned. He’s the real hero of this taut, riveting movie.

Ted Bundy, renowned psycho serial killer is so famous, he’s the poster boy for smooth-talking men who women fall for—to their peril. Zac Efron is well cast as Bundy in Joe Berlinger’s film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, as is Lily Collins, fragile and ultimately tough, as Elizabeth Kendall, one such young woman, whose story this thrilling movie is based on. This Netflix movie follows the journey to Bundy’s end. As the evidence against him mounts, you may be gulled, you may even wish he were innocent as he says he is. Paying homage to the victims, Berlinger, known for his nonfiction films, names the women Bundy murdered.

Mary Harron’s Charlie Says tells Charles Manson’s story through three women caught up in his charisma to join his “family.” In prison for the well-known gruesome murders, the three are still quoting Charlie as if he were a deity. Their indoctrination, in flashbacks, is a window into a story we thought we knew well, a story from a bygone era, when hippies ruled the Haight. Harron’s well crafted movie is deeply unsettling, a reminder: It was not all flower power. Or, that love may have a dark after taste, may even be evil’s next of kin.

I am still not over these movies.