Brand new factory sealed dvd comes in its original heavy duty gatefold card stock snap case. These usually have the chapter stops and stills from the movie printed on the inside cover. Made for HBO cable TV the aspect ratio is full frame, so it looks best on those old fashioned tube televisions as the image will fill your square screen.

With all the movies about real and fictional serial killers, none could top the true story of Chikatilo (Jeffrey DeMunn) the former schoolteacher who killed and mutilated a record number of young boys and girls in the Soviet Union. This film shows how serious government corruption and backward police procedures made it possible for him to keep on killing for over eight years.

Stephen Rea delivers a masterful realisation of compassion and despair as the iron willed forensics specialist Viktor Borakov, whilst Donald Sutherland is subtly brilliant as the anti-bureucratic Colonel Fetisov and Viktor's ally. Together, as the years pass and the bodies mount up, they call in the help of a psychiatrist (Max Von Sydow) to create a psychological profile of the murderer.

Don't be deterred by the knowledge that this was made for TV; it's a fascinating and absorbing film guaranteed to keep you glued until the final credits roll.