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Ted Bundy (2002)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:8
Rotten:13
Average Rating:4.9/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence involving a sexual predator/serial killer, sexuality/nudity and language
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Sep 13, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: The accounts vary and the actual number will never be known, but the deaths of at least 36 women can be attributed to Theodore Robert Bundy. This biographical horror film begins in Seattle in 1974... The accounts vary and the actual number will never be known, but the deaths of at least 36 women can be attributed to Theodore Robert Bundy. This biographical horror film begins in Seattle in 1974 where the duplicitous nature of Bundy (Michael Reilly Burke) becomes unmistakably evident. He is working as a polite crisis hotline volunteer, but his callers don't know that he is secretly a sexual deviant in a bow tie whose sexual desires become increasingly perverse until they culminate in his killing spree. Meanwhile, an unsuspecting girlfriend (named "Lee" in the film, this woman--played by Boti Ann Bliss--wrote a book about her life with Bundy under the alias Elizabeth Kendall) dotes on her lover, whose crimes would go unsolved for years. The film follows Bundy's murderous trail through two prison escapes and his eventual execution in Florida. This detailed account of Bundy's exploits contains chilling murder sequences and a dark sense of humor. The film ends with a memorably bleak execution scene which includes archival footage of the mob outside the prison. The subject matter is not new for distributor First Look, which also released DAHMER and ED GEIN. The latter benefited from the creative team of screenwriter Stephen Johnston and producers Hamish McAlpine and Michael Muscal, who reteamed on this project. [More]
Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Alexa Jego, Tracey Walter
Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Alexa Jego, Tracey Walter, Joseph McDougal, Jennifer Tisdale, Steffani Brass, Tiffany Shepis, Wayne Morse
Director: Matthew Bright
Director: Matthew Bright
Producer: Hamish McAlpine, Michael Muscal
Screenwriter: Stephen Johnston, Matthew Bright
Composer: Kennard Ramsey
Studio: First Look
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Reviews for Ted Bundy
Instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story, the film’s more determined to become the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But what about the countless other people who’d merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul?
It's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel, but the result is more puzzling than unsettling.
Exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable.
This piece of Channel 5 grade trash is, quite frankly, an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast.
In the end, Ted Bundy's only justification is the director's common but unexplored fascination with the frustrated maniac; there's no larger point, and little social context.
An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art.
He was psychothic but somehow I doubt that he was the world's biggest luser...
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