Whenever I do this horror movie challenge, there are movies that shake me up sometimes, freak me out a bit, but usually I can help calm my anxiety by reminding myself that it's just a movie and it's not real. I can't do that with this movie, because it's a documentary about a real murder that happened in this country a few years ago. It's harder to calm yourself down when the horror is real!
This documentary explores the case of Shannen and Chris Watts. In 2018, Chris Watts pled guilty to killing his pregnant wife Shannen Watts and their two daughters. The murder was shocking and disgusting to me, because when his family first disappeared, Chris Watts joined in the search and appeared in videos on the news pleading for his family's safe return. Honestly, I wanted to puke on his face. It was terrible to think about him killing his wife and two little girls, tossing their bodies away like trash, then acting all distraught and pretending to want them back.
This documentary is comprised of police and news footage and interviews collected from the time the family first disappeared. We get to see videos Shannen posted, telling how she met her husband and how she was so happy with him, then videos of her telling him she was pregnant, and videos with her daughters, showing how excited they are about their new sibling. It makes the story even sadder to get to know the family and see them so happy and to think about what Chris did to them. It's really chilling to me. Famous movie killers like Jason Voorhees have nothing on this guy.
Even though I knew what happened going into the movie, and that he confessed to killing his wife and daughters, it's still sad watching the movie progress from the beginning of their disappearance, reading the texts Shannen sent leading up to the disappearance, seeing her happy world fall apart when she realizes that something is wrong in her marriage, then seeing Chris ho from pretending he doesn't know what happened until his facade breaks and he admits what he did.
It finally comes out that he was having an affair when the woman he was cheating with comes forward, but she thought he was separated and didn't know his wife was pregnant. Then once the police confront him with the evidence he goes from denying it, to trying to blame Shannen for killing his daughters, to finally admitting that he did it. It's sickening that he tried to blame it on her at first. I had forgotten that part of the story. What a sicko. Anyway, this movie is a sad but gripping reminder that real monsters exist in the world.
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