While the British true-crime series Should I Marry a Murderer? exceeded viewership expectations for the third week in a row, the streamer’s latest true-crime movie emerged as a massive hit in its first week of release. Should I Marry a Murderer? follows a Scottish woman whose fiancé confides in her that he once ran over a cyclist and buried the victim’s body in the Highlands. The woman spends weeks in emotional agony, seemingly abandoned by the authorities, as she collects more evidence against him. The three-part series has spent three weeks on Netflix’s English-language series list, accumulating 20 million views during that period. The streamer has followed the show with what’s shaping up to be another blockbuster for true-crime fans.
The new movie debuted at the number three spot on Netflix’s English-language list, behind the animated blockbuster Swapped and the feel-good dramedy Remarkably Bright Creatures. In its first week, the true-crime movie outperformed Netflix’s hit survival thriller Apex, which has accumulated more than 100 million views in four weeks. The new true-crime documentary revisits the infamous case of an Ohio teenager named Mackenzie Shirilla, who crashed her car into the side of a building at nearly 100 mph, killing her boyfriend and his friend instantly. Further investigation reveals that the crash may not have been an accident.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
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Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
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🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
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Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
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Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
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Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
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Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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Here’s More Viewership Data for Netflix’s New True-Crime Hit
The movie we’re talking about is titled The Crash. In one week, it posted nearly 12 million views and outpaced Apex, which added 10 million views in its fourth week. The Crash was directed by Gareth Johnson, who previously directed the three-part true-crime documentary The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman for Netflix. Released in 2022, The Puppet Master follows a career criminal who dupes unsuspecting people into believing that he’s a secret agent working for MI5 while robbing them of money. The Crash doesn’t yet have an official Rotten Tomatoes score, although only one of the seven reviews listed so far is negative. Critics have described the movie as a “must-watch for true-crime fans” and “a call to action to look at your own screen and ask yourself: if my life were stripped down to my highlights.”
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You can watch The Crash, Should I Marry a Murderer?, and several other gripping true-crime documentaries on Netflix. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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