***SPOILERS*** Somewhat fictionalized account of the Son of Sam's murderous rampage that terrorized the city of New York back in 1976/1977. We get to see David Bekowitz aka Son of Sam after his capture by the NYPD in a holding cell being interviewed by his court appointed attorney Miss. Kline.
Not at all denying his crimes that put some fifteen people in the hospital or morgue Berkowitz spills his guts out telling Miss Kline that the Devil made him do it. Alone and without any friends David got in with the wrong crowd, he tells Miss. Kline, who happened to be a gang of Satan worshipers. These evil people so thoroughly brainwashed poor David's mind to the point where he didn't have a mind of his own but one that's controlled by the Devil, or Satan, himself.
We then have this slew of flashbacks of David moping around town, mostly around the Brooklyn Bridge, looking for victims to sacrifice, with his bulldog .44 handgun, to his Lord & Master Satan wherever he gets the call to do it. It seems that David's victims in the film don't corresponds with the real victims that the real Son of Sam murdered during his killing spree. None of the some dozen persons he guns down, and the circumstances under which he shoots them, don't remotely resemble those that the real Son of Sam did in some 30 years ago!
There's also the story of who's directing Berkowitz to do these terrible things that turned out to be a black or chocolate Labrador dog name Sam thus the name Son of Sam that Berkowitz gave himself. In the film we see David on very friendly terms with Sam even at times sleeping with the mutt which also doesn't correspond with the real events of the Son of Sam murder case.
In real life it wasn't Sam the dog whom Berkowitz was referring to as his father but Sam the man, Sam Carr, who's dog Harvey-called Sam in the movie-was driving Berkowitz nuts barking all night keeping him awake! In fact Berkowitz tried a number of times, after telling Sam Carr to shut his dog up, to shoot Harvey in order to keep him from constantly barking and thus be able to finally get himself a good night sleep! It was this non-stop barking on Harveys part that convinced Berkowitz that the dog was an agent of Satan pounding into his head orders to go out and kill for him through the Yonkers, where Berkowitz lived at the time, based Satanic Cult that he belonged to.
Knowing that he's hopelessly possessed and controlled by the Devil/Satan Berkowitz finally asks and gets a local Catholic Priest-Father Duncan- to do an exorcism on him and free his body & soul from the evil influence that the Devil/Satan has on them. It's then after being cleansed by Father Duncan of the evil that has been driving him to maim and murder Berkowitz finally sees the light and becomes "whole" again. With his both body and soul exercised of the evil that the Devil/Satan infected them with Berkowitz has now, in the movie, become a new spiritual and righteous human being. Morphing from the evil Son of Sam into the good kind and loving Son of Hope that's he's known as, behind prison bars, today.
Nothing really that new here on the murderous history of David Berkowitz but the fact that what he did wasn't done on his own but with the help and urging of his fellow Satanic Cult members.
It seems in the movie that only Berkowitz was entrusted to do all the dirty work by the Satanic Cult as if he, being an army veteran, was the only one who knew how to handle a handgun. What really struck me about Berkowitz and his many victims in the movie is how they never saw him coming, even when he was standing right in front of them, until he started blasting away! It seemed as if Satan himself made Berkowitz, who had great trouble handling his .44 bulldog revolver, invisible so he wouldn't be spotted by his intended victims until it was too late!
Not at all denying his crimes that put some fifteen people in the hospital or morgue Berkowitz spills his guts out telling Miss Kline that the Devil made him do it. Alone and without any friends David got in with the wrong crowd, he tells Miss. Kline, who happened to be a gang of Satan worshipers. These evil people so thoroughly brainwashed poor David's mind to the point where he didn't have a mind of his own but one that's controlled by the Devil, or Satan, himself.
We then have this slew of flashbacks of David moping around town, mostly around the Brooklyn Bridge, looking for victims to sacrifice, with his bulldog .44 handgun, to his Lord & Master Satan wherever he gets the call to do it. It seems that David's victims in the film don't corresponds with the real victims that the real Son of Sam murdered during his killing spree. None of the some dozen persons he guns down, and the circumstances under which he shoots them, don't remotely resemble those that the real Son of Sam did in some 30 years ago!
There's also the story of who's directing Berkowitz to do these terrible things that turned out to be a black or chocolate Labrador dog name Sam thus the name Son of Sam that Berkowitz gave himself. In the film we see David on very friendly terms with Sam even at times sleeping with the mutt which also doesn't correspond with the real events of the Son of Sam murder case.
In real life it wasn't Sam the dog whom Berkowitz was referring to as his father but Sam the man, Sam Carr, who's dog Harvey-called Sam in the movie-was driving Berkowitz nuts barking all night keeping him awake! In fact Berkowitz tried a number of times, after telling Sam Carr to shut his dog up, to shoot Harvey in order to keep him from constantly barking and thus be able to finally get himself a good night sleep! It was this non-stop barking on Harveys part that convinced Berkowitz that the dog was an agent of Satan pounding into his head orders to go out and kill for him through the Yonkers, where Berkowitz lived at the time, based Satanic Cult that he belonged to.
Knowing that he's hopelessly possessed and controlled by the Devil/Satan Berkowitz finally asks and gets a local Catholic Priest-Father Duncan- to do an exorcism on him and free his body & soul from the evil influence that the Devil/Satan has on them. It's then after being cleansed by Father Duncan of the evil that has been driving him to maim and murder Berkowitz finally sees the light and becomes "whole" again. With his both body and soul exercised of the evil that the Devil/Satan infected them with Berkowitz has now, in the movie, become a new spiritual and righteous human being. Morphing from the evil Son of Sam into the good kind and loving Son of Hope that's he's known as, behind prison bars, today.
Nothing really that new here on the murderous history of David Berkowitz but the fact that what he did wasn't done on his own but with the help and urging of his fellow Satanic Cult members.
It seems in the movie that only Berkowitz was entrusted to do all the dirty work by the Satanic Cult as if he, being an army veteran, was the only one who knew how to handle a handgun. What really struck me about Berkowitz and his many victims in the movie is how they never saw him coming, even when he was standing right in front of them, until he started blasting away! It seemed as if Satan himself made Berkowitz, who had great trouble handling his .44 bulldog revolver, invisible so he wouldn't be spotted by his intended victims until it was too late!