Two documentaries on Netflix are more than interesting for true crime fans, they show how reality can be scarier than fiction.

In An American Nightmare, a couple is attacked in the middle of the night by intruders, tied up, and forced to take sedative drugs and that wasn’t even the worst of it. The young woman is kidnapped and raped twice, and yet the police, instead of investigating and looking for the culprits, distrust the couple, accusing them of using the story of the best seller, turned into a film, Gone Girl, as a kind of prank. I’ll get back to them.

The new documentary that the platform makes available this week is even scarier. Lover, Stalker, Killer is one of the most surreal and frightening stories that fiction has yet to create. We follow the life of a recently divorced man, Dave Kroupa, who, when using a dating app, meets two women: Shanna “Liz” Golyar and Cari Farver, indirectly drastically changing the lives of not just the three of them, but two families due to a triangle. tragic love.

I’ll try my best to avoid spoilers, but it’s true crime, there’s a missing woman turned stalker and we quickly understand that, just as An American Nightmare was frighteningly appearing to be a reality version of Gone Girl (it’s not), this is clearly an Attraction Fatal. But who really would Cari Farver be the Alex Forrester of the 21st century?

The narrative is engaging and even if you, like me, and after the tips given here, search for what the truth is, you still get stuck trying to figure out “how” and “what happened”? Yes, there are pranks to get you to that surprise “wow” moment, and they work. The reenactments are well-edited and well-recorded and take us straight into the tension and paranoia that Dave experienced for no less than four long, scary years.

There is a certain problem, if you, like me, deduce what is happening with some agility (unlike Dave), the turn of the story seems to come a little late when the drama is already out of control. But then you remember that it’s all true and the anguish returns. Let’s end the suspense.

There’s an Alex Forrester (Fatal Attraction‘s psychotic lover), but she’s not who she seems. In fact, Liz Golyar, feeling threatened by Cari Farver, kills her and spends the next few years impersonating her on social media, deceiving friends and family, Dave, of course, and threatening the lives of people in his life. It would be a perfect crime if new detectives determined to locate Cari were unable to unravel Liz’s plot.

Lover, Stalker, Killer is a film waiting to be shot and has a much more satisfying conclusion than An American Nightmare, but both, mixed with the films that were so successful, invert our perception and disconcertingly bother us. They are worth every minute! And as a bonus, yes, it’s worth rewatching the films too, which are much softer when we remember that they’re just fiction.

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