Evilenko

Evilenko is a 2004 Englishlanguage Italian crime horror thriller film very loosely based on the Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Written and directed by David Grieco, the film stars Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, and Ronald Pickup.

Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev, a magistrate and family man, is assigned to catch the serial killer. For years, Evilenko eludes Lesiev and psychiatrist Aron Richter, who is assigned to profile the killer. Richter eventually finds Evilenko with a little girl and manages to break Evilenkos hypnotic hold on her, but is killed by Evilenko in retaliation although it appears to Evilenko that she is run over by a train, the girl escapes alive.Almost eight years later, Lesiev finally captures Evilenko, who by now has killed 55 people, mostly children and young women. OnMay 1992, Evilenko goes to court, and onFebruary 1994, he is finally executed. Before his execution, several governments expressed interest in Evilenkos psychic abilities and asked for extradition of Evilenko alive but were denied. ........

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