‘The Monster of Florence’ Teaser: Stefano Sollima’s Netflix Series Delves Into Italy’s Unsolved Sex Murders (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The first bone-chilling teaser-trailer for Netflix‘s “The Monster of Florence” from Italian genre specialist Stefano Sollima has been unveiled.

In an exclusive with Variety, the streamer has released the first footage from the hotly-anticipated serial killer series, about a string of sex-related murders that took place outside Florence from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Sollima, known for the gritty TV hit “Gomorrah” and movies “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” and “Without Remorse,” spent more than a year researching the still unsolved case of “The Monster” (“Il Mostro,” in Italian), the moniker given to the alleged serial killer who committed eight double murders, preying on couples parked in cars in secluded places around Florence. “The Monster” always used the same weapon, a 22 caliber Beretta.

The cold case marks one of the longest investigations into the most brutal serial killings in Italian history. “‘The Monster of Florence’ is not only an unsolved judicial case, but a mystery that marks our relationship with pain, fear and silence,” Sollima said in a statement to Variety. “The murdered couples, the horrors perpetrated on young women, never fully understood, are a wound that has remained open for too long.