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Crime writer Anne Perry is the subject of a new documentary currently doing the rounds at film festivals. But this isn’t the first time Perry will have appeared on film - she was the inspiration behind Kate Winslet’s matricidal character in lesbian cult classic Heavenly Creatures.

Anne Perry - Interiors follows an author who is known not only for her best-selling Victorian murder mysteries, but for her involvement in a crime that scandalized her native New Zealand. In 1954, Perry - who was born Juliet Hulme, the name used by Winslet in the film - together with her best friend Pauline Parker were charged with murdering Parker’s mother. After her release from prison, both women changed their names and it was not until Peter Jackson’s 1994 film drew a new spotlight on the crime that Perry’s real identity was uncovered.

The intention behind the murder, plotted out meticulously in Parker’s diary, was that Parker and Hulme would then travel to America to live together and become writers. Since their conviction, the two have apparently not been in contact. Although Perry has stated that her friendship with Parker was obsessive, she has denied that there were the romantic or sexual undertones present in Jackson’s film.

The documentary is currently being shown at film festivals around the world, but there is no word on whether it will receive a general release.

[Via After Ellen]

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