2. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Site Score: 10, IMDb Score: 8 Overall Score: 18
Directed by Nick Broomfield
Year: 2002
A sequel to his own documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, Nick Broomfield’s Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer deals with the Aileen Wuornos’ death sentence and the controversy that followed it. Despite being pronounced “of a sound mind” by the state’s psychiatric examiners, Broomfield’s film offers plenty of evidence that prove otherwise. Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute that was convicted of the murder of six men in the period between 1989 and 1990, claimed that she killed them in self-defense. She also claimed that a big alien mothership is coming for her on the eve of her execution, which puts to doubt any claim of her being mentally healthy enough to be executed in the first place.
