Summer of Sam (1999, 18, Fox-Pathé, VHS/Rental) Spike Lee's crudely effective view of the long, hot summer of 1977 when New York baked, blacked out and went crazy as the serial killer David Berkowitz, who styled himself Son of Sam, terrorised the Bronx.
It was very encouraging because people were looking at me like I was crazy because I wasn't writing 12-tone serial music".
Even The Wire, the holy grail of critically acclaimed dramas, started getting a little crazy in its fifth season by adding a serial killer, the death knell of many a procedural drama.
"I got crazy and maxed out again," she said of her serial refinancing.
The song "Run" may be about a soldier in Iraq or a heroin dealer (not unlike the way "Crazy" might have been about a spurned lover or a serial killer).
The Sun wrote a feature entitled "The Crazy World of Martin Creed", as though Creed were Prince, or a serial killer, rather than a tall, open-faced, friendly Scotsman who "spends his time thinking about things and doing things".
And where serial mendacity was once the rule, a whole new level of crazy has been achieved in 2009.
But Reddington is no serial killer, not even a psychopath, though "he might be a little crazy," Mr. Spader conceded.
"Before our film Rabies everybody thought that we were crazy to even dream about making a slasher film in a country that has no serial killers and has enough real-life terror on its hands.
