A 14-year-old girl was strangled by a 16-year old boy,
possibly after he raped her. He left her nude body in a wooded area and then
bragged to other students at school and even went so far as to drive them in
his truck to have a look at the body. Word spread around school about the
presence of a body in the hills outside town and other students went to see for
themselves. For two days this went on without anyone reporting it to the
police. Screenwriter Neal Jimenez took this very real news story out of
Milpitas, CA, and turned it into a screenplay. The resulting film, directed by
Tim Hunter, was an atmospheric and lunatic study of disaffected youth before that
even became a 1990s moniker attached to a particular type of songwriting and
filmmaking.
