 Ryan Gilbey of "The Guardian," writing about the 1973 film "Badlands" in 2008, said that "Terrence Malick began writing his screenplay "Badlands," based on [Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate's] bloodthirsty road trip, in 1970, when he was 27.The story had already been loosely dramatised in the 1963 film "The Sadist," though hardly anyone remembers that one now.