“The Night Stalker” (** out of four) was a superficial psychodrama about the serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez (Lou Diamond Phillips) who terrorized California in the ’80’s and film shows how he tells his story to an inquisitive lawyer (Bellamy Young). Film annoyingly jumps back-and-forth between the present day to flashbacks when Ramirez was a child but doesn’t really tell you much about him that’s new or revealing. Phillips is pretty one-note as Ramirez. Similar in structure and concept to “The Silence Of The Lambs” but let’s just say these two are a long way from Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.

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