The Iceman Interviews | 
 enlarge | Director: Jim Thebaut
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 19999
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 150
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D92159D
ISBN: 0783126603
UPC: 026359215926
EAN: 9780783126609
ASIN: B0000C23T4
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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Product Description
An abused young man. A hair-trigger temper. A trail of dead bodies. What makes a cold-blooded killer tick? THE ICEMAN AND THE PSYCHIATRIST is now available for the first time on DVD. Renowned forensic psychologist Dr. Park Dietz gets up close personal and even confrontational with psyche of one of the most dangerous men alive. Bringing together the earlier THE ICEMAN TAPES: CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER and THE ICEMAN: SECRETS OF A MAFIA HITMAN with the newly released Dietz interview this new special edition THE ICEMAN INTERVIEWS is the ultimate compendium of the mind of a murderer. Includes Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski's riveting on-camera confession exclusively for HBO of the murder of police officerPeter Calabro. Making news in February 2003 Kuklinski accepted a plea bargain for a concurrent 30-year term to his 60-year prison sentence and implicated Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the crime. THE ICEMAN INTERVIEWS - this new special edition is guaranteed to run chills up and down your spine all over again.Running Time: 150 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 026359215926
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 excellent service July 3, 2008
recieved quickly, i love this dvd. anyone intrested in true crime/mafia will need to have this!
 The Iceman talketh June 24, 2008
The videos were entertaining and interesting, but there was much repetition among the segments and they seemed shorter than the announced running time.
Morality is Relative anyway, right? February 29, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
There is so much that is scary about these interviews that I hardly no where to start. Since I have reviewed another version of this DVD, I will restrict my comments on this one to the larger meaning of Richard Kuklinski's life in the context of American culture.
Yesterday, the Oprah show showcased the life of a 40ish divorcee from the Atlanta area, with two pre-teen children. She was sinking fast into financial quicksand and grabbed onto a job as a "stripper" as a last resort lifeline. "Stripping" rescued her from the brink of social and financial death, and gave her and her family an entirely new outlook on life without the need for a husband or a father. She appeared on the show looking unusually fit and tan for a 40-year old woman -- and with money in the bank to boot. The show of course was the typical "Oprah style rationalizations for why whatever a woman does morally is okay." That is Oprah's place in American culture, to confirm to us that any moral standards that women reduce down to nothing, is okay. Societal morality after all is a consensus affair, relative, right? Oprah proves that there are no moral absolutes -- at least when it comes to American women, anyway. By working just two nights a week, this mother had more time with her kids, kept her body in shape, and for the first time in her life, was free of the need to depend on a man and had money left over. Without the life-saving job of "stripping" her life was a sure dead end. Seems like a real American success story, right?
When I saw the show, I immediately thought about this interview of Richard Kuklinski being on the equivalent of a show slanted in the opposite direction towards males, only his interviewers were not the male equivalent of Oprah, but police investigators and establishment Psychiatrists:
Kuklinski, at 17 was a skinny kid, who all the bullies picked on. He got tired of taking their "crap" and took an iron rod from the closet of his "project" apartment and beat one of them to death. No one reported him to the authorities. Thus we are left to assume that it was considered "justified street homicide" (just like what the police do). Plus, "poor old Richard" only had an eighth-grade education and both of his parents also beat the crap out of him every chance they got.
So, what to do? Well, Richard carried a chip on his shoulder so big that he became a predator: That was his job. He could kick butt, anytime, anywhere. That was all he could do; the only thing that gave him an edge in a cruel world. He just learned to enjoy his talents a bit too much. The mob got wind of his reputation as a "mad dog predator" and quickly recruited him by making him an offer he could not refuse: You show us you can kill reliably and keep your mouth shut, and we'll pay you at least $50k per hit. Richard passed the job interview with flying colors, by killing under instruction, a random person in broad daylight in a residential neighborhood on the streets of New York City. From there the rest is history. One-hundred and fifty, to two-hundred murders later, and upward of $50 million that bankrolled a lavish upper crust New Jersey life style for his family, Richard was caught, after having eliminated all of his closest friends, but one: the one who fingered him. The moral of this story from Richard's point of view (and directly from his mouth): "I had one friend too many."
But there are other morals to this Oprah-like expose of America's most cold-blooded, most productive, and most well-paid serial killer and predator: How does a 17-year old who kills a man on the street with many onlookers including the five who fled from his attack, avoid being arrested or being tried for murder #1, of 200 to come? Especially in a culture where being caught with one $10 rock of cocaine can get you 10 to 20 years in prison, no matter the age?
Another moral to this story is Kuklinski's wife, who now sees herself as a victim, after the fact. But she was unconvincing when she claimed that she did not know what Richard did to provide her the lavish life style she was living. She just lived lavishly off the fruit of his murders without thinking to ask questions about where the hell all that money was coming from? One does not need to know everything to know something: We all have a sixth sense about these things. For 30 years, she put her sixth sense to sleep, because she did not want to know the truth. Passive lying is lying no less.
And in what other nation on earth can a person make $50 million dollars as a hired killer and not be caught for over 30 years? Like Kuklinski's wife, there are a lot of people turning to Oprah in order to learn how to put their sixth sense to sleep: There is a lot of collective denial going on in New Jersey and in the U.S.
Morality is relative anyway right? It is the "O.J.s" of the world that Americans really fear, not the Richard Kuklinskis, right? Five stars
The ICEMAN cometh. February 8, 2008
No problems at all from ordering on line to receiving. Great service.
The ICEMAN was everything I expected and more.
STRAIGHT SAVAGE. January 26, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
THIS MAN DID'NT GIVE A F#CK.I DONT BLAME HIM.I WOULD'VE DID THE SAME THING IF SOMEBODY THRETIN MY FAMILY.
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