A lonely young man starts to display disturbing behaviors that point toward violence.
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134 pages |
5 years ago
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Miles Mantis is in therapy. He wants to talk about his anxiety. He wants to talk about his control issues, and his dysfunctional family. What he doesn't share with his therapist are the details of his violent imagination, or the "Manifesto" list he's been making..
Killer Mantis is a darkly comedic character study about anxiety, fear and violence in America.
Based on the true story in 1931 of a navy wife who claimed she was raped by a gang of Hawaiians, leading to one of them being kidnapped and murdered in a scheme hatched by the girl's mother. Clarence Darrow defended the family in Hawaii's Crime of the Century.
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