and it could have been even spookier

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2006)

Capote vibrates alarm in your mind more than the most scary horror movies - because, yes, this one's all true.
Well, we buy it as fact which I guess was their intention as the subject is a non fiction novel and the theme of the drama is Can you lie to tell the truth?
The really frightening thing is that, like the video in Ring, people who come into Perry Smith's strange world are cursed for ever - in Capote's case with the worst thing that can happen to a writer. He never wrote another book.
But the film left out that neither did Harper Lee. I read somewhere recently that, in her seventies, she's still trying.
This comment may be my last....