‘Boston Strangler’ Director Matt Ruskin Had a Personal Connection to Retelling the Infamous Murder Mystery
thewrap.comMatt Ruskin: Aside from being really interested in the Boston Strangler story and all of these untold aspects of it I was really compelled by Loretta McLaughlin, who’s at the heart of the story.
It felt like the underdog story of this reporter who wanted to do much more meaningful reporting [and] who was sidelined because it was a very male dominated environment.
I thought it was really compelling. The more I learned about her the more I admired her as a person and as a journalist. I don’t know what necessarily distinguishes it from all these other wonderful films that you mentioned, but it was really inspired by her story, trying to do that justice and get the spirit of her story right.I grew up in Boston and I had heard about the Boston Strangler my whole life, but I didn’t know anything about the case.
I started reading about it a few years ago and discovered there was this incredibly layered murder mystery, with all these unexpected twists and turns, and I thought that would make for a really compelling film.
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