Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Nick Broomfield's haunting follow-up documentary revisits Aileen Wuornos, the convicted serial killer, in the months leading up to her execution. The film captures a deeply disturbed and erratic Wuornos as she waives her appeals and confronts her fate, raising troubling questions about justice and mental illness. Broomfield's intimate access provides a chilling and deeply unsettling portrait of a woman shaped by abuse, trauma, and a broken system.

• Nick Broomfield directed both this and the 1992 Wuornos documentary.
• Aileen was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
• Broomfield served as a witness to Wuornos's execution.
• Wuornos recanted her self-defense claims before her death.
• The film includes rare final interviews with Wuornos herself.

• I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
• They're just out there to make money off of me.
• I wanted to clear all the lies and tell the truth.
• I'm a serial killer. I would kill again.
• There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again.