In the 2003 film Monster, Charlize Theron plays Wuornos, a prostitute who develops a relationship with a woman she meets in a bar. One of Wuornos clients, Vincent Corey, attempts to attack and rape her. In self defence, Wuornos kills him and vows to quit prostitution; too shaken by the attack to continue. After trying and failing to get a normal job, Wuornos and her partner are running extremely low on money so she decides to return to prostitution in order to support her and her partner. This is where things take a turn for the worse Wuornos begins the robbing and killing of her clientele. Each murder gets that bit more sickening and it quickly becomes evident that the psychopathic hooker is finding some form of pleasure in her actions. Wuornos claims she does this because they are all trying to rape her. The sad reality is this murderess is a real woman and the film is based on her life, making the events depicted in the film all the more troubling. AIleen Wuornos had an extremely troubled childhood having been abandoned by her mother and having a criminal father. She turned to prostitution at a young age. The real Wuornos committed six murders before being caught and sentenced to death. This inversion of the Jack the Ripper tale may seem like a clever literary flourish but it really happened.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
