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The Ritual Killer (2023) on Netflix

NR20231h 32mThriller

Grieving his daughter's death, Detective Boyd hunts a killer in Mississippi who takes organs from victims in a ritual called Muti. A professor of African studies can read the killings' meaning.

  • Netflix1.3/5
  • IMDb4.3/109,465 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes10%

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Plot summary

In Rome, Inspector Mario Lavazzi finds a mutilated body, a victim of a killer who takes organs in a ritual called Muti. The man the police identify, Randoku, escapes them with startling agility. In Mississippi, Detective Lucas Boyd and Detective Kersch arrest a rapist holding a teenage girl; Boyd shoots him and tells the commission it was self-defense. Boyd is haunted by nightmares over his daughter's death by drowning. When a mutilated schoolgirl is pulled from a river and another child disappears, Boyd asks Professor Mackles, a college teacher of African studies from Lesotho, for help. Mackles reads the Zulu inscription left at the site and says the killer is a healer gathering muti, a dish that gives strength and supernatural power to those who pay for it.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ritual Killer (2023)

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  • The film's opening foot chase takes place along the Spanish Steps and was filmed on the night of October 21. It was shot right after a scene with Brian Kurlander that was cut from the final film.

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