The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (2021)

Incredibly Interesting

Being from the US, we have a lot of exposure to serial killers, but we very rarely hear about other countries' serial killers. This was a very well thought-out and put together documentary about a very sick man. Hearing from the actual police officers, detectives, forensic scientists, and profilers that originally handled the case was quite fascinating. I thought that the actor reenactments of some of the crimes spliced with real footage and interviews was very well done. Some of the actual footage was incredibly creepy and made my spine crawl. Netflix did a superb job, and it's very hard to stop watching once you start.

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captivating

I have watched a lot of those type of documentary-style stories and this one is a very good one. How they lead the story is made really good and intersting.

How was Korea economically doing at that time and how has it effected the society?
They use the society's and economic's situation to lead the story and to tell the very story of Yoo Young Chul.

To hear from all the people involved in this case, such as police officers, profilers, laywers, and indirect victims was very interesting and also suspenseful and sad. You can see and feel their emotions when they were talking about it.
The interviews, reenactments and real footages are well portioned. What I also like was how they addressed the impact, that this whole case has on the society, the national police system, for example. And the title is also well chosen.

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Shocking story of Korea's first serial killer

This documentary shows in different perspectives the motives behind Korea's first serial killer. Many police officers, profilers, detectives and the victim's family members take part in describing the motives and the methods behind the most important murders but also the pain suffered by the families and the new investigative methods that the police learned after this case.
The documentary makes a good job in describing the psychology of the murderer and the lack of remorse he had after being apprehended.
What's really nice is how they simulate or act the different scenes told by the people involved, it really helps to see the extent and atrocities made by this criminal.
Nevertheless, this documentary could have one more episode showing how the police investigated the other cases and what have they worked out to catch him. It left the impression that the police was just lucky in catching him the first (and even the second) time.

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Vicarious embarrassment

It lacked so many things. They didn't divulge KEY details about the killer that would've made this documentary more engrossing. It would've been better if they interviewed certain people... As much as that lunatic did, not enough details were discussed AND they had the nerve to never show his face, not even a crumb of a pic! It took me a year to finish this, because it was so boring. By the 3rd episode I turned on the English dubbing. I'm a major TRUE crime junkie but this just couldn't hold my attention.

I'm surprised South Korea let this see the light of day. I would've been embarrassed to let the world know how the killer got away at the police station, not to mention Sparta kicking one of the victim family members to PROTECT the killer.

Totally subjective review, don't mind me.

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It is a story of how the Seoul, South Korean police were utterly incompetent and let a serial killer go on killing. As for what the officers interviews it sounds like their still in denial that it was their fault. (I can only speak from the English translation). They came off as blaming the system rather then themselves. Even when two officers didn't communicate and the killer walked right out of the interrogation room they spoke as if he planned it all. One redeeming factor was they didn't show his face or give him any type of "fame". Though there was no real focus on the victims either. Overall sloppy as a documentary.

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WELL DIRECTED! KILLING is a STRESS BUSTER to that MONSTER !? HORRENDOUS!

The real life serial killer, "The Raincoat Killer" discussed here, inspired the Crime Thriller Movie "THE CHASER"

And is one of the cases in the Crime Profiler Drama "THROUGH THE DARKNESS"

Usually, I'm not much into documentaries but since this case has inspired a movie n a drama which are two of my favourite crime dramas, wanted to give a try to this documentary.

*****
This is a WELL DIRECTED Documentary about this horrible killer.
Keeps us INTERESTED, throughout all the three episodes.

Directing a documentary is very different from that of a movie / drama n this direction n production team did their part very well.
For eg, The Camera Angles to be used in a documentary for blurring the real people in interviews etc or those cam angles used to hide their identity or those angles used during the reenactment of some scenes by actors without showing their faces etc, actually makes the direction of a documentary so different!

(A documentary has to be done with an "extra care", while revealing true facts about the real events or hiding the identity of few real people,
unlike the usual movies/dramas/entertainment shows)

The interviews of the Real Crime Profiler, the Police Detectives team and the Forensic team, who worked on this case back then, give an insight of their troubles and mental effort they faced while tracking down this MONSTER.

Reading a Criminal's mind is Scary n Disturbing!😐
On top of that, dealing a SERIAL KILLER or profiling/analysing the psychology of that brutal person, is so TIRING MENTALLY.

Knowing the INNER THOUGHTS OF A CRIMINAL, esply a serial killer, is Very Creepy, sends chills down the spine! 😱
And it's a HELLISH SUFFERING for the Profiler n the team to listen, observe and analyse those evil thoughts and to stay cool without being provoked😐

Oh My! How did they even tolerate that mental agony! 🙄

Seriously, this guy's tale is gruesome to watch! Ufff🙄

*****
Few scenes in episodes 2 & 3 here, U feel as though watching the exact scenes n dialogues from above mentioned Movie n Drama, especially though describing the exact words n heinous actions of that monster during interrogation.

(Ep 3) KILLING is a STRESS BUSTER to that MONSTER !? 😲 HORRENDOUS! 😱

*****
Production, Editing n Cinematography is Good.
The quality looks like a movie.
The screenplay / the flow of story telling / giving out the facts to the viewers, is Good.

(Previously watched few documentaries, didn't like the taking or the story telling n so dropped those, though they are about interesting true events).

The BGM used in the documentary is good, creates a suspenseful tone n suits to the serious mood of the documentary.

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Boring & Wasted Documentary

I watch a lot of true crime series and this is one of the worse one's I've seen. I'm not sure who directed and produced this but It was not that great. Also, did not need 3 episodes. I thought the police in Kdramas were incompetent but the actual Korean police fumbled this entire case. The different districts didn't coordinate efforts or share information. They let this psycho walk out of the police station and destroy evidence. Too many corrupt and or lazy cops. I did appreciate the forensic/s doctor and the profiler as well but the documentary focused way to much on police interviews. I found it weird too that the police seemed to be parading the killer around in front of the media. The only good thing I heard in this doc was that b/c of the colossal fuck ups by the police, policies and procedures changed.

4/17/25

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