Anna Kendrick directs and stars in the chilling true-life tale of a woman who goes on a dating show with a bachelor who is also a serial killer. Plus: Damian Lewis’s very bloody vampire horror

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is not, as you might expect from her past roles, a bubbly musical or romantic comedy. It’s a deadly serious fact-based tale about a serial killer in the US in the 1970s, which is careful to give his female victims equal billing. Kendrick plays Sheryl, an aspiring actor who is hired for TV show The Dating Game – the same episode on which, bizarrely, multiple murderer Rodney Alcala (an alternately charming and creepy Daniel Zovatto) has been picked as one of the eligible bachelors. Skilfully woven into that are the stories of other women who crossed Alcala’s path, in a tense, chilling tale of personal tragedy and damning police failure.
Friday 18 October, Netflix