Key Takeaways
- True crime is a dominant genre on Netflix, with several successful titles released this year.
- The new film, The Crash, quickly climbed the Netflix viewership charts after its release.
- It debuted at number four worldwide and number two in the U.S. shortly after its May 15 release.
- The film is based on a real case involving a tragic car crash and subsequent murder charges.
True crime is no longer just a niche on Netflix. The streamer has cornered the market for the genre, much like Apple TV with sci-fi series and Prime Video with male-centric action. This year alone, Netflix has had success with true crime titles such as The Investigation of Lucy Letby, Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, Trust Me: The False Prophet, The TikTok Killer, The Predator of Seville, A Friend, a Murderer, and more recently, Should I Marry a Murderer? Now you can add a new movie into the mix. Like its precursors, the new film found instant success on the Netflix viewership charts, handily outpacing holdover hits and nearly taking the number one spot in its debut.
According to FlixPatrol, the movie in question debuted at the number four spot worldwide and at the number two spot domestically following its release on May 15. In the United States, the film outperformed Remarkably Bright Creatures and Swapped, and globally, it paced ahead of M. Night Shyamalan‘s Trap and Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator II. The new film follows a relatively recent case that gripped online observers for its perceived ruthlessness. In 2022, a 17-year-old named Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into the side of a building in Ohio at nearly 100 mph, leaving her boyfriend and his friend dead. Certain details about the crash raised the suspicions of investigators, and Shirilla was eventually charged with murder.
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