Denial, anger, bargaining, depression? Many are still trying to accept the chances of a third season of the David Fincher-produced serial killer series “Mindhunter” on Netflix are slim to none. The show is based on the very real group at the FBI that developed the agency’s profiling methods and signs of compulsive mass murderers after interviewing them in a prison setting about their lives and why they kill.

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From movies, documentaries, novels and non-fiction books to plays and podcasts, serial killers have fascinated in pretty much every medium possible. The mind of a killer, their disturbing motivations, their often perverse behavior and their unknownable, sociopathic thinking is not unlike our obsession with the great white shark: culture is always fixated on apex killers and the more mysterious and impossible to peg, the more fanatical we are about their own preoccupations and psychotic neuroses.

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Horror movie fans don’t have it easy and their love of horror franchises can be like being stuck in an abusive relationship. The first installment of any horror movie, the ones crystallized into the canon as classic anyhow, is often like a wonderful honeymoon where everything is new and rosy. But as the marriage goes on and the bloom falls of the rose, horror movies can yield some seriously painful diminishing returns that can mar a franchise.

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Welcome to another edition of Over/Under Movies, the podcast in which we pick one overrated film and one underrated film — similar in tone, genre, style, or however we see fit — and we discuss them.

I’m joined by my co-host Oktay Ege Kozak as we delve into two dark, brooding police procedurals involving longstanding serial killer (or serial kidnapper) cases. First on the docket is “Prisoners,” the English-language debut of Denis Villeneuve (shot after 2014’s “Enemy,” but released first).

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Before we saw Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham get too close for comfort on “Hannibal,” and prior to Anthony Hopkins defining screen villainy in “The Silence Of The Lambs,” Michael Mann brought the cannibal to life in “Manhunter.” It’s a particularly cherished film for fans of the director, and thanks to Scream Factory, it’s looking better than ever in a two-disc Collector’s Edition featuring both the theatrical and director’s cuts, along with a ton of new extras.

Continue reading Exclusive: Brian Cox & Dante Spinotti Talk Michael Mann’s ‘Manhunter’ In 2 Clips From Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray at The Playlist.