Zac Efron is Ted Bundy

[Joe Von Zombie]

I liked the movie well enough and I understood the logic behind their approach, but I think a lot of people wanted the novelty of watching Efron also portray the brutality of the Ted Bundy which we do not get. We get glimpses of it, but we never see Efron go full psycho. I enjoyed what we got, but it still doesn't hold a candle to Mark Harmon in The Deliberate Stranger.

 

[harlequinade]

Well Efron can do that in other movies, plenty of roles like that out there in Hollywood

I thought his more subtle, creepy performance was very effective

 

[_Superman_]

My issue with the movie is unless you know the history behind Bundy they make it seem like he is being setup and have him come.off very likable. I think they could've done a better job showing how evil he truly was.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I liked the movie well enough and I understood the logic behind their approach, but I think a lot of people wanted the novelty of watching Efron also portray the brutality of the Ted Bundy which we do not get. We get glimpses of it, but we never see Efron go full psycho. I enjoyed what we got, but it still doesn't hold a candle to Mark Harmon in The Deliberate Stranger.

I still need to see that movie. I’ve heard that Harmon is brilliant in it. Still, my Ted Bundy will always be Dennis Reynolds, lol.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Well Efron can do that in other movies, plenty of roles like that out there in Hollywood

I thought his more subtle, creepy performance was very effective

I actually really appreciate how they handled most of the scenes with Bundy, Efron is by far the best thing about the movie and I like the approach of them trying to portray Bundy's ability to win people over and be disturbingly likable at times, I just think they needed something to help clarify how horrible his crimes were earlier than the end of the film, even just a couple brief scenes from the perspective of the police, or a couple more news reports talking about bodies being found or people going missing, I also would really have liked to see them show Bundy trying to evade recapture after his first escape, and some more time with his arrest in Florida where it took them way too long to figure out who he was. The movie spends too much time in prison and feels repetitive as a result imo.

 

[harlequinade]

I thought Parson's character talking about what Bundy did was far more effective than disgusting torture porn we would get if they shown it

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I still need to see that movie. I’ve heard that Harmon is brilliant in it. Still, my Ted Bundy will always be Dennis Reynolds, lol.

You really should check it out. When I was a kid I was really into the 80s slashers, then I caught The Deliberate Stranger and Helter Skelter one night on TNT and it showed me that reality is much more terrifying than some guy in a mask and raised my interest in true crime.

 

[Deck Rickard]

You really should check it out. When I was a kid I was really into the 80s slashers, then I caught The Deliberate Stranger and Helter Skelter one night on TNT and it showed me that reality is much more terrifying than some guy in a mask and raised my interest in true crime.

For sure. The horrifying things some of these men have done surpass anything you can see in a slasher film.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I'm absolutely fine with not seeing a single thing Bundy did in this movie. I liked the approach, I just don't think having Efron so ripped helped at all. Bundy was average looking, he shouldn't have a six pack.

 

[Spider-Fan]

This movie felt more like I was watching The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington than it did a movie about Ted Bundy. It was very strange. I can understand not wanting to recreate real murders, but I think it needed to do more to make Bundy come off as disgusting. I don't think it successfully painted him as evil enough. It was also fairly repetitive.

 

[_Superman_]

This movie felt more like I was watching The Hurricane starring Denzel Washington than it did a movie about Ted Bundy. It was very strange. I can understand not wanting to recreate real murders, but I think it needed to do more to make Bundy come off as disgusting. I don't think it successfully painted him as evil enough. It was also fairly repetitive.

I did a poor job as painting him as evil. It left his guilt up in the air for the most part mainly because I am guessing that they expect you to know everything about Ted Bundy already.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, it was an odd approach. I guess they just wanted to show how manipulative he could be. But at times it almost felt like they wanted you to sympathize with him. And yeah, when they show the real clips of Bundy at the end... dude was average looking at best. I know that actors in movies tend to look better than their real life counterparts but for all the talk of how good looking he was, when you get an almost side by side comparison with him and someone like Efron, you can see how much his looks have been exaggerated.

 

[Boom]

This was not great.

My suggestion? Watch the Netflix documentary instead.

 

[OutOfBoose]

It still very much felt like a production for TV without any ambition, just of solid quality,but I thought Efron did a very good job. I enjoyed watching it. The perspective didn't bother me. I thought it was interesting to try to show Bundy from perspective of people who surrounded him.

 

[Mysterious]

Why can't they make a good Jeffrey dahmer film I looked up the latest one & he doesn't kill not a soul just a fish & squirrel

 

[Deck Rickard]

They need to make Dahmer and Gein and Jack the Ripper films that connect to this one and then team them all up for a Serial Killer Avengers movie