Boston Strangler: Hulu is Coming with a new Crime Drama film that will give you Goosebumps

Hulu has dropped the new trailer for the crime drama, Boston Strangler. The film featured Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon as a pair of investigative reporters who helped hunt down…

By Reetam Bodhak

February 24, 2023

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Hulu has dropped the new trailer for the crime drama, Boston Strangler. The film featured Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon as a pair of investigative reporters who helped hunt down the titular murderer during a terrifying crime spree in the 1960s.

Boston Strangler is revolving around the story of the popular serial killer who has been haunted Boston between 1962 and 1964. This is all about the countless women who were slaughtered and stalked. The final count of those dead reached 11, but the true count was believed to be higher.

The story of the film revolves around Knightley’s character Loretta McLaughlin. He is mainly a reporter for the Record-American newspaper that was based in Massachusetts. McLaughlin became the first journalist who was able to piece together the clues that would ultimately connect the killings as part of a serial wave of terror. She has collaborated with Jean Cole having both a colleague and close confidante in order to further her investigations but had to battle against the domineering sexism and misogyny which was sadly typical of the era.

The creator of Crown Heights, Matt Ruskin, has written the script and is in the director’s chair as well. The production team includes heavy hitters Ridley Scott and Margot Robbie. Ruskin previously spoke of his desire to make the film as a Boston native, having grown up with the story of the infamous “Strangler”.

“Having grown up in Boston, I had always heard of the Strangler in a very abstract sense, but I didn’t really know anything about the details of the case and a few years ago, I started reading about it and discovered a really fascinating, layered serial killer story.

I always loved journalism stories and in researching the case, I discovered these two journalists, starting with Loretta McLaughlin, the first journalist to connect the murders, and in her reporting, she actually gave the Boston Strangler his name. It was a really monumental story for her in her career in the early 1960s. She was a very ambitious reporter in a male-dominated field and this was a real turning point for her.”

Boston Strangler: Cast

On joining the top duo of Knightley and Coon are David Dastmalchian, Alessandro Nivola, Chris Cooper, Rory Cochrane, Morgan Spector, Robert John Burke, Kris Sidberry, Ivan Martin, Melanie Hubert, Jon Lindstrom.