Some time ago, many popular horror films came to us, such as Nicolas Cage's "Legs", M. Night Shyamalan's "Trap", etc. Unfortunately, the reputation after being released was not very good. On the other hand, there is a new documentary released by Netflix that makes people take a b

Many popular horror films have come to us some time ago, such as Nicolas Cage's "Legs", M. Night Shyamalan's "Trap", etc. Unfortunately, the reputation has not been very good after it was launched.

is a new documentary released by Netflix, which makes people take a breath of cold air - "The Worst Ex in History" (also known as "The Complete Collection of Horrible Exes").

This documentary has a total of four episodes and selects four extreme cases of "horrible exes". In each case, victims and investigators are invited to speak on camera, giving a strong sense of immersion. As you can tell by the name,

belongs to the same series as the previous "The Worst Roommate in History" .

Speaking of "predecessor", in fact, there have been many wonderful examples in various novels, film and television works. But after watching the documentary, you will find that the imagination of the creators is still too conservative. The story of the first episode of

takes place in a small town in Oregon, where it is almost a society of acquaintances.

One night, Angela suddenly received a call for help from her friend Justine. On the other end of the phone, Justine was breathing weakly and asked Anji to help call the police and take her to the hospital.

Angela rushed to Justine's house immediately and found that the house was brightly lit and the door was locked. No matter how she knocked on the door, no one answered.

She ran to the back door and suddenly heard Justine's tragic scream, followed by several heavy beatings on the wall. As she was looking for a way to break in, the garage door suddenly opened.

Justine’s ex-boyfriend Ben Foster walked out of it.

He calmly told Angela that Justine had a heart attack and they needed to take her to the hospital together. But when Angela entered the house, she saw Justine lying naked in a pool of blood, and Ben took the opportunity to drive away.

There is no doubt that this was an incident of intentional injury.

When Justine was sent to the hospital, she was already in critical condition.

The police immediately issued a wanted order for Ben Foster.

But I wouldn’t know it without checking. After checking, it was discovered that this person had multiple violent criminal records and had even been imprisoned for this.

Justine’s case suddenly connected three women in different areas.

They were both Ben Foster's girlfriends.

Among them, Amber and Ben developed a relationship from colleagues to lovers.

In her eyes, Ben was a smart, handsome, and extremely charming man. In the early stages of their relationship, he did not show any violent tendencies, but he only had a hobby of collecting knives and guns.

However, after getting along for some time, Amber realized that Ben was extremely jealous and controlling.

Every time she sees her in contact with other men, she becomes extremely irritable.

During an argument, Ben impulsively pushed her to the ground and punched her. Amber immediately called the police and broke up with him. Ben was fined for community service and attended domestic violence counseling classes.

Amber thought everything was over, but she didn't expect Ben to hold a grudge.

After following him for many days, he sneaked into Amber's house and stabbed her with a knife.

During the struggle, Amber almost had her fingers cut off, but luckily she managed to escape outside the house. But when the police arrived, Ben had already cut himself with a knife and lied that the two had punched each other and that Amber was the one who struck first.

In this way, Amber was taken back to the police station.

Although the lie was quickly clarified, when she returned home again, her belongings had been looted by Ben...

Ben, who had left behind a criminal record, traveled to another city and met the second heroine Jiemei.

This time he won Jie Mei’s favor with his dog-loving persona, but similarly, not long after getting along, Jie Mei also discovered that Ben had emotional control problems.

had no job and stayed at Jie Mei’s house all day long. The two often quarreled over this.

When Jiemei made up her mind to abandon him and applied for a restraining order from the police station, Ben revealed his true colors again and imprisoned Jiemei and tortured him for many days.

Fortunately, Jiemei also managed to escape from control.

Ben was sentenced to 729 days in prison for this, but after he was released from prison, he turned around and found the next target. This time the unlucky one was Justine at the beginning.

At first glance, Ben intends to commit murder and revenge after being dumped every time, but in fact his behavior has nothing to do with the sadness of failed love. Judging from his experiences with several interviewees, he has an obvious personality disorder and is destined to be unable to find an ideal partner that meets his extreme ego, and will only become victims one after another.

Fortunately, evil people have their own destiny, and Ben accidentally shot himself while evading police pursuit.

For the heroines in the case, there is probably no better ending than this.

This kind of devilish ex who pesters and threatens with violence can be regarded as the ultimate, but his behavior is not weird. The exes in the second and third cases in this film are the ones who are constantly engaging in sexual harassment. In the second episode of

, the heroine Simone is a restaurant owner and a successful person in the eyes of her friends.

One day, a man named Jerry came to the restaurant for dinner.

Jerry has a gun on his waist and claims to be a police detective. Seeing that the monitoring equipment in the restaurant was not set up in a standardized manner, he enthusiastically provided suggestions to Simone.

Afterwards, Jerry often came to the restaurant to help and relieve Simone, who was busy at work, and the two gradually became a couple.

During this period, Simone never felt that there was anything unusual in Jerry's behavior.

Until one day, she received a call from a strange woman who claimed to be Jerry's wife and said that they had two children and that Jerry's police identity was also fake.

After learning the truth, Simone immediately broke up with Jerry.

Jerry’s begging failed to change her mind, so he broke into Simone’s home and raped her.

At this point, Simone had no choice but to take Jerry to court.

Although all the evidence is conclusive, Simon was suddenly arrested by the police during the investigation of the case - she was accused of being a suspect in several recent robberies by impersonating police officers.

pretending to be a police officer and committing a crime sounds more like something Jerry would do. But somehow, the portraits of the suspect described by several victims were highly consistent with Simone's. One of them claimed that he remembered the suspect's license plate number. It was based on this clue that the police directly found Simone's home.

Simone knew that this was Jerry's idea. Although he is not a police officer, he has been a police informant for a period of time and knows the operation mode of the police department well.

Therefore, he bribed several "victims" to report false police reports. While delaying the progress of the rape investigation, he stained Simone and affected the jury's judgment.

If she is eventually framed and imprisoned, then Jerry will most likely escape punishment.

Although his framing method was full of loopholes, due to police malfeasance, Simone spent 7 months in prison before justice arrived.

In the third case, the devil’s ex was a woman.

In order to fight for the custody of her children, she not only committed a murder with her mother, but also set up a scheme to try to make her ex-husband commit suicide after taking the blame...

Overall, this documentary tends to show bizarre and extreme criminal facts. The personal backgrounds and motivations of these criminals, as well as how to deal with abnormalities found in real-life intimate relationships, and how to protect oneself when encountering a demonic ex, are not discussed in depth, so they are somewhat superficial.

But also because it collects the details of the parties, you can find many subtle problems.

There are psychological confessions from the victims. For example, Jie Mei in the first episode said that when she discovered that Ben had violent tendencies, she did not immediately talk to her friends and ask for help.

Because she didn’t want others to know that she had become a victim of domestic violence. This display of weakness made her feel ashamed. Out of a psychological defense mechanism, she endured the harm while deceiving herself and denying the harm. In this torment Gradual mental breakdown.

For example, the police and other social institutions have failed in their duties. Simone was imprisoned for seven months inexplicably because the police were unwilling to investigate whether there was any connection between Jerry and several witnesses who accused her.

Not to mention that she had an absolute alibi during the time period when she was accused of committing the robbery.

In all cases, the victims dare not truly breathe a sigh of relief until these evil exes are finally sentenced to jail or die in the West. Many of them have tried to call the police and apply for a restraining order against each other, but were disappointed to find that many of the safeguards were ineffective. Even though they had done nothing wrong, they had to live on tenterhooks every day.

An interviewee in the film said that emotions towards one’s ex often bring out the ugliest side of people.

But in fact, regardless of the title of "ex", Ben, Jerry and others in the film are just crazy criminals. They just have a layer of "emotional entanglement". They have one more reason to excuse themselves and commit crimes. The cost will also be reduced.