Rodney Alcala, known as The Dating Game Killer, is the subject of a true crime film made of his murderous career. He was found guilty of eight murders between 1971 and 1979, is suspected of killing more than 100 women and girls and died in 2021 on death row.
The actress Anna Kendrick who directed the film also played Cheryl, a contestant on the dating show who refused to go out with Alcala because she thought he was creepy. Anna Kendrick has donated her fee from hit Netflix film Woman of the Hour to Rainn (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and the National Centre for Victims of Crime, because she would have felt “gross” profiting from it. She had previously said her own experience in an emotionally abusive relationship inspired her performance in the 2022 psychological thriller about a coercive boyfriend, Alice, Darling.
Rodney Alcala, August 23, 1943, San Antonio, Texas, joined the army at 17 and was described as manipulative, vindictive, and insubordinate. After a breakdown, he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, with later diagnoses labelling him with narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and malignant narcissism with psychopathy and sexual sadism comorbidities.
His Sun was on the cusp of Leo/Virgo and his Full Moon in opposition in Aquarius/Pisces. He did have an unloved Venus Saturn in Cancer and an explosive Mars Uranus in Gemini.
Without a birth time, nothing too horrific leaps out – though his midpoints are stark with Neptune square his Mars/Saturn midpoint which is cruel and perverse. And his Pluto sitting on four midpoints.
Where his sadistic inclinations show up clearly are on his ‘serial killer’ 18th harmonic which has a Grand Trine of Sun Saturn Pluto trine Chiron trine Uranus, formed into a Kite by Mars opposition Pluto, Saturn, Sun. Saturn Pluto is cold. Mars Pluto is ruthless. Mars Saturn is cruel.
What draws Anna Kendrick, 9 August 1985, Portland, ME, to playing in movies about abusers is her Mars in Leo opposition Jupiter square Pluto in Scorpio; with her Sun Mercury in Leo conjunct her Mars and square Saturn in Scorpio. She had an accountant mother and a history teacher father and started acting in community theatre when young. But with an accentuated Mars square Pluto – and widely connected into Saturn as well, she will have a sensitive antennae to coercion, bullying and worse. She has said in interviews she never intends to have children.
Her Mars is exactly conjunct Alcala’s emphasised Pluto with her Jupiter in opposition and her North Node square – it hints at a real clash where she will not allow herself to be bullied and will be keen to highlight his dominating tendencies. Her Venus in Cancer is conjunct his North Node as she highlights his inability to grasp the message of his Node and show compassion.
Her victim/healer 12th harmonic is significantly strong with a Grand Trine involving Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune Pluto, formed into a Kite by Pluto opposition Sun. She has the capacity to make a difference.
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