Fallen (1998) on Netflix
Detective John Hobbes watches Edgar Reese, the serial killer he arrested, put to death. Killings in Reese's style begin again, and a riddle from their final conversation sends Hobbes searching.
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Plot summary
Philadelphia homicide detective John Hobbes visits Edgar Reese on death row shortly before the execution of the serial killer he arrested. Reese is oddly cheerful, grips his hand, speaks in a tongue later called Syrian Aramaic, and sings as he dies. Murders that resemble Reese's crimes follow. Hobbes and his partner Jonesy assume a copycat is at work. Clues lead Hobbes to Gretta Milano, whose father, a police detective, took his own life after he was blamed for killings of an occult kind. At the abandoned cabin in the woods that belonged to her family, Hobbes finds books about possession and a name painted over in the basement.
Cast
- Ronn Munroas Mini Golf Owner
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fallen (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Gregory Hoblit and Nicholas Kazan were working on an adaptation of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere when Kazan shared with Hoblit a script titled Fallen that he had penned with Alan Dershowitz; Hoblit was so impressed he immediately agreed to direct it.
- Kazan wanted the demon to remain unseen and implied rather than an explicit monster, because real evil is often unseen and unexpected, which is what makes it scary.
- Hoblit cited his experience directing police procedural TV shows, and how the script reminded him of Rosemary's Baby, The Omen and The Exorcist, as motivating factors in wanting to direct and combine those elements.
