Feast of Death: The Dark Places of James Ellroy on DVD October 10th

With over 9 feature films based on his novels, including the smash hit LA Confidential, the upcoming theatrical releases, The Black Dahlia, Directed by Brian De Palma and slated for theaters September 15th, starring Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank, critically acclaimed crime writer James Ellroy teams up with Academy Award© winning Producer-Director Vikram Jayanti (When We Were Kings) to bring us the chilling documentary Feast of Death: The Dark Places of James Ellroy, available on DVD October 10th from Tartan Video.

When he was 10 years old, James Ellroy’s mother was savagely murdered by an unknown assailant. This childhood event sparked a dark obsession with death and brutality, inspiring many of his future writings, including The Black Dahlia, a story based on the famous 1947 unsolved murder of a young starlet. Feast of Death: The Dark Places of James Ellroy examines this horrific crime through conversations with key players, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the LA County Sheriff’s Department and posits what many believe to be the true story of the unsolved murder.

Shot in Dallas, Texas and Rowe, Wisconsin, Feast of Death: The Dark Places of James Ellroy is a look at James Ellroy, the eccentric author of Brown's Requiem, Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Killer Road and his LA Quartet novels â€” The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. James also freelances for GQ magazine.