Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, "Woman of the Hour," tells the chilling and unbelievable story of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amidst his murder spree.

Woman of the Hour was inspired by a real-life serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game in the 1970s. Anna Kendrick directed and stars in the new Netflix film.

Do you spin it as a thriller, a true-crime drama, a horror film, a sick pop-culture joke? Actress Anna Kendrick, making her debut as a director, does something fascinating. She juggles all four and then adds a fifth layer undergirding the others: the unceasing dread that comes from being a woman who knows men like Rodney Alcala are out there.

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut focuses on the victims murdered by the real-life Rodney Alcala, a serial killer who once won a reality dating show in the ‘70s

Netflix film Woman of the Hour, starring and directed by Anna Kendrick, is based on the real life of serial killer Rodney Alcala - and the screenwriter has explained why they added a fictionalised sce