A full trailer has been released by Netflix for Anna Kendrick’s real crime thriller directorial debut “Woman of the Hour” that hits the streamer on October 18th. The project is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Rodney Alcala and Cheryl Bradshaw. Ian MacAllister McDonald penned the script for a thriller which reportedly has elements of black comedy.
Cheryl was a bachelorette on the hit 1970s TV matchmaking show “The Dating Game” and chose bachelor number three, Rodney Alcala in her episode. However, she was unaware of his deadly secret – beneath Alcala’s charming facade was a psychopathic rapist and serial killer who was in the midst of his macabre spree when he went on the show. The pair won a vacation together in Southern California but Bradshaw, turned off by his ‘weird vibes’ after the taping, declined his date and only later found out how close she came to death.
Kendrick plays Bradshaw in the film alongside Daniel Zovatto as Alcala, Tony Hale as “The Dating Game” host Jim Lange, along with Kelley Jakle, Max Lloyd-Jones, Jedidiah Goodacre, Matt Visser, Taylor Hastings, Nicolette Robinson and Dylan Schmid..