True crime is one of the successful genres on Netflix and millions of people are hooked on shocking docuseries that tell real cases. One of the last to arrive has become the most viewed in a matter of hours. “Kidnapping Nightmare in California” is the true crime that everyone is watching and its resemblance to this movie is striking.
Behind the new success is a team that knows what it is to become a trend for a documentary full of twists and mysteries: “Nightmare of a kidnapping in California” is directed by Felicity Morris, also behind another of Netflix’s true crimes: “The Tinder scammer” and producer of another essential: “Don’t even touch cats: a killer on the Internet.” Popular true crimes with a team that will tell us, once again, a totally implausible true story full of unknowns: the true story of Denise Huskins, kidnapped in 2015 during the night, in Nightmare of a kidnapping in California.
What is true crime about?
“Kidnapping Nightmare in California” takes us to Vallejo, California, in March 2015. Deniske Huskins has supposedly been kidnapped by attackers who entered her boyfriend’s house in the middle of the night, leaving him drugged and tied up without power. notify anyone. Hours after what happened, Aaron Quinn, the victim’s boyfriend, contacted the police to tell what happened. A totally creepy and striking story that the authorities will have a hard time believing due to its resemblance to a film released very shortly before: David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
The press and public opinion soon compared the real case of Denise Huskins with that of the film, being very similar. The media sometimes referred to the case as “the real-life Loss,” alluding to the film.
What is Lost about?
The film, which was released just a year before the real case, is a David Fincher film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Considered one of the best thrillers in the history of cinema and with an Oscar nomination in 2014 for best actress (Rosamund Pike), we can now see it on Disney+ and Netflix.
Based on the book with which it shares its name, by Gillian Flynn, it tells the story of the couple Nick Dunne and his wife Amy. On their fifth wedding anniversary, she will mysteriously disappear. As is usually the case in these disappearance cases, everyone points to Nick Dunne as the culprit behind the disappearance of his wife. His statements and explanations do not seem solid to those who listen to him and everyone will believe that he knows the whereabouts of his wife and knows what has happened.
A very similar story and that everyone is already comparing due to the similarities in its plot or the real impact that the film had on the victims of this case.
