Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Villisca: Living With a Mystery

Play trailer Villisca: Living With a Mystery 2004 1h 55m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 2 Reviews 56% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
An ax-murderer wipes out a family in 1912, and a small town in Iowa spirals into chaos.

Critics Reviews

View More
Jeffrey Bruner Des Moines Register 08/09/2005
3.5/5
A respectful approach to Iowa's most notorious crime. Go to Full Review
Linda Cook KWQC-TV (Iowa) 08/07/2005
4/4
If ever a documentary was worth waiting 10 years to see, then "Villisca: Living with a Mystery," is it. Go to Full Review
Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More
09/11/2012 A very interesting documentary. If you've heard about this murder, you will want to watch this. See more 11/18/2010 This movie, about an unsolved 1912 axe murder in Villisca, Iowa, starts out a fairly innocuous local historical society-type documentary and just gets creepier from there. It's unsensational but very thorough, presenting in detail the stories of not only the murder and the suspects, but how the town changed after the event and other curiosities such as interviews with the murdered family's closest living relative and of a unrelated woman who lived in the house as a child after the murders. This is an excellent historical and true crime documentary and if you don't mind not sleeping well for while, I highly recommend it. See more 10/07/2008 Pretty interesting, but it was definitely more like a high-grade A&E special than anything else. See more 08/06/2008 My father and I visited the actual house where this happened last June! See more 08/29/2006 I was fortunate to receive a preview screener of the upcoming true crime movie VILLISCA: LIVING WITH A MYSTERY. This haunting tale takes place in a small town in Southwest Iowa. Villisca’s claim to fame is a brutal axe murder of eight of its citizens–the J.B. Moore family of six, and two little girls who were invited to stay the night. This obscure mystery known as the 1912 Villisca, Iowa axe murders, keeps you guessing about the likely suspect–-a State Senator? A minister? A railroad worker? Almost 100 years later, Villisca still copes with this undesirable part of its history, as curious tourists visit in search of ghosts or clues about the unsolved mystery. The DVD is slated for release Oct. 2006. It features compelling research by Dr. Epperly & Dr. Stillians, and a riveting computer-generated walk-through of the crime scene with discussion by FBI profiler Robert Ressler. It is a crime buff’s find, and as fascinating as the Black Dahlia. More at [url="http://www.villiscamovie.com/"]www.villiscamovie.com[/url]. See more 03/17/2006 what u expect me to say? it was crap! See more Read all reviews
Villisca: Living With a Mystery

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Movie Info

Synopsis An ax-murderer wipes out a family in 1912, and a small town in Iowa spirals into chaos.
Director
Kelly Rundle
Producer
Kelly Rundle, Tammy Rundle
Screenwriter
Kelly Rundle, Tammy Rundle
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 55m