Michael Bay's Born Evil is a queasy mismatch of director and genre
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
Per Max's promotional materials for Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior: "Meet Hadden Clark, the most vicious serial killer you've never heard of – who confessed his crimes to his cellmate because he thought the convicted murderer was Jesus."
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The story
You might not have heard of Hadden Clark, but you've probably heard about Born Evil, at least in passing – because ID's latest docuseries "event" is directed by Michael Bay, who's best known for summer-movie "product" like the Bad Boys and Transformer franchises.
Bay is probably better described as a project manager of action-sequence pageantry than as an auteur – but there's nothing wrong with that.