’Mindhunter’ Meets ‘Silence of the Lambs’ in South African Procedural ‘Catch Me a Killer’
19.03.2024 - 07:11
/ variety.com
Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor “Catch Me a Killer” comprises many firsts: It is a series about South Africa’s first-ever criminal profiler, the first-ever woman to occupy such a position and, now, the first-ever series entirely shot in South Africa to be in International Panorama competition at Series Mania, Europe’s biggest TV festival. Abacus Media Rights(AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, handles world sales. Based on the eponymous book by psychologist Micki Pistorius, “Catch Me a Killer” sees “Game of Thrones” breakout Charlotte Hope in the lead role as the psychology professor turned serial killer profiler.
The 11-part series mixes drama, true crime and procedural to shine a light not only on Pistorius’s groundbreaking work, but some of South Africa’s most harrowing murder cases, beginning with the infamous Station Strangler, believed to have killed 22 young boys between 1986 and 1994. Apart from Hope, who plays an English version of Pistorious, and director Tracey Lacombe, all of the series’ cast and crew are South African, including “Toorbos” director Rene van Rooyen. Speaking with Variety ahead of Series Mania, van Rooyen said she was first attracted to the project because it offered the possibility of highlighting an issue that directly impacts her day-to-day life: South Africa’s staggering femicide rate.
The country’s femicide rate is five times higher than the global average, with approximately nine women murdered every day in 2022. The majority of victims in “Catch Me a Killer” are women. “It’s a very topical issue for us, and if you live in South Africa as a woman you deal with those anxieties daily.
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