Soo Film Festival 2025

SFF 2025: Block 9-1969: Killers, Freaks, and Radicals

Feature presentation.

Screening: Saturday, Sep 13, 4pm at Soo Theatre (Block 9)

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1969: Killers, Freaks, and Radicals

Film: 1969: Killers, Freaks, and Radicals

Director: Andrew Templeton
Documentary Feature, United States, 2024, 112 min, Color

Amid the radical politics and cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, a series of brutal murders targeting young women gripped the twin university towns of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Home to the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, the communities grew increasingly anxious as police seemed unable to stop the killer—or killers—responsible.

Through interviews with law enforcement, political figures, and women who lived through the fear, this independent documentary examines not just a series of crimes, but the social and political tensions that enabled them—many of which still resonate today.

Great Lakes Connection: The film takes place almost entirely in the Ann Arbor area and was produced and worked on by Michigan natives.

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