The Hillside Strangler ( Also Known As: El estrangulador de la colina) is a Crime Thriller film directed by Chuck Parello and written by Stephen Johnston, Chuck Parello . It released on 12 November 2004 (UK). The film stars C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange . In the end of the 70's, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed with joining the police force.