In the blistering hot summer of 1984, a sadistic predator is terrorising rural Britain. This is the story of the desperate police manhunt for The Fox, one of the most prolific and depraved offenders in British criminal history.
Direction
Hackett weaponizes 1984 British summer heat—claustrophobic, suffocating dread.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a threat; no reenactments needed.
Director
Chris Hackett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Fox case helped reshape British attitudes toward stranger danger and domestic security—this was pre-DNA, pre-mobile phones, pure analog terror.
Director Hackett deliberately avoided naming the perpetrator until the final act, mirroring how victims never knew his identity during the attacks—a structural choice some critics called exploitative, others genius.
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