Leo DiCaprio to Play Serial Killer Dr. HH Holmes

Leonardo DiCaprio is going over to the dark side!

The 35-year-old actor is set to play Dr. HH Holmes, a cunning serial killer believed to have murdered anywhere from 27 to 200 people in Chicago during the 1890s, Deadline reports.

Holmes constructed The World’s Fair Hotel, a “murder castle” where he killed his victims and stripped their skeletons to sell for medical and scientific study.

Leo isn’t the only actor who’ll soon be playing a murderer. True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten has reportedly signed up to star as notorious killer Charles Manson in The Family.

ARE YOU EXCITED for Leo DiCaprio’s new chilling role?