10 Rillington Place

Drawing heavily on Ludovic Kennedy’s excellent book, 10 Rillington Place delivers an accurate account of John Reginald Christie’s 1940s London killing spree. The movie belongs to Richard Attenborough, who plays the creepy Christie brilliantly.

He is even creepy when doing ordinary things like making a cup of tea, usually before killing some poor lady.

For me though what makes this film is the character Timothy John Evans  played by John Hurt. Hurt plays the fantasist man who sadly for him picks the wrong house to rent. Evans was hanged for killing his wife and baby daughter, when Christie was in fact to blame.

Best of all we get John Hurt putting on one of the absolute worst Welsh accents ever to hit the big screen. "Ah look you see boyo, it was Christie see like but." Not the exact script but funny as anything.

A classic film and all the better for being based on real events. Even if the Welsh accent makes me giggle every time I watch the film, like boyo.