William Friedkin’s Rampage is one of those strange, half-buried works that seems to have fallen through the cracks of both its era and its director’s reputation. Shot in 1987 but not properly released in the United States until 1992, the film was reshaped, delayed, and nearly lost amid legal and studio troubles. That liminal history fits its tone: Rampage feels suspended between the moral horror of the 1970s and the slick procedural fascination of the 1990s. It’s a disturbing, intelligent, and uneasy hybrid, a courtroom thriller haunted by the logic of a horror movie. The film is loosely based on the real crimes of Richard Chase, a serial killer nicknamed “The Vampire of Sacramento.” In Friedkin’s fictional retelling, the murderer becomes Charles Reece (Alex McArthur), an outwardly ordinary young man driven by bloodlust and delusion. After committing a series of gruesome killings, he is captured and put on trial. The prosecution, led by district attorney Anthony Fraser (Michael Biehn),...