Starkweather is a 2004 film directed by Bryon Werner. Written by Working Class Films founder and prolific screenwriter Stephen Johnston

Stephen Johnston

Stephen Johnston is an Emmy Award winning narrator and winner of the Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.Stephen Johnston narrates and produces audio Bibles, and narrates Ronco commercials.-External links:*...

 whose scripts including Ed Gein and Ted Bundy started the 'Serial Killer' sub genre. Brent Taylor

Brent Taylor (American film actor)

Brent Taylor, born 2 December 1980, in Nashville, Tennessee, is an American film actor.-Selected filmography:* Take Out * Starkweather * Detour...

 and Shannon Lucio

Shannon Lucio

Shannon Lucio is an American actress who played Lindsay Gardner on The O.C..Lucio is a graduate of the University of Southern California and was cast in the lead female role of the CBS television drama Moonlight , but was replaced by Sophia Myles in April 2007...

 star. Jerry Kroll and Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen

Lance James Henriksen is an American actor and artist best known to film and television audiences for his roles in science fiction, action, and horror films such as the Alien film franchise, and on television shows such as Millennium....

 are also featured.

The movie is based on the life of spree killer

Spree killer

A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...

 Charles Starkweather

Charles Starkweather

Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American teenaged spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming during a two-month road trip with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. The couple was captured on January 29, 1958...

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The movie was filmed in September 2003 in Acton and Lancaster California and filmed on 35mm. Since its initial release by Thinkfilm in the USA, the film has played over 200 times on Showtime and Starz/Encore, including 15 times in February 2007 alone.
Internationally, released by Warner Bros (Denmark, Sweden) and e-m-s (Germany) among others.