The problem with The Acid King is that there's literally nothing except about 5 seconds of Kasso video and nothing else except questionable accounting from a series of local burnouts. So it's a 15 minute documentary spread out thin to a 2-hour doc. Nothing at all can really be corroborated here, so it's just legend mostly. There's a nice angle of the so-called national Satanic Panic which grew from the excellent Rolling Stone article about the murder, and that's really the limit of this little murder. A well written magazine-length article did it justice, a two-hour doc with locals reliving their glory years drags this down until you're hoping the ghost of Kasso will appear and put them all down and end the film quicker. It all feels like a 15 minute doc padded to two hours. If you're new the the murder, READ THE ROLLING STONE ARTICLE. If you must have more, watch the doc, but it's kind of weak.
Review of The Acid King
