Irishchatter Before seeing this film, I have seen a documentary about the cold blooded killer but I don't know much of him 100%. All I knew was that he hasn't known his real father and his mother was 16 when she had him. Also of course I knew he killed a lot of poor innocent young girls.However, after seeing this film, I have learned a lot of who he was as a person. I know Michael Reilly Burke isn't the real Ted Bundy but, he really did look like him in a killer style of form. He was honestly scary, lemme tell ya!I would probably freak out if I ever saw him on the street or even on films. Although I'm sure he is not like that but still, he played a risky character who was for real, a murderer!I honestly can say, this is a not bad horror/crime/biography film even if it was considered the worst movies to watch!

jemusser This movie was so unrealistic and non-factual that I can't believe I finished it. The locations were all shot in CA (a place that has nothing to do with Bundy). All the details throughout the movie were either intentionally or mistakenly distorted. The filmmakers had several goofs. And, very significant parts of the Bundy story were completely left out. They didn't include the reports to investigators from his girlfriend or anything about the four state (Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado) investigation and the difficulty in finding evidence on him. There is so much more to the Ted Bundy story. So much they could have done with the locations and forensic investigations. The fact that he was the first person in history to be called a "serial killer" should have given them more incentive to really tell the whole story. They even left out the fact that he made all the big confessions (he confessed to 30 murders) minutes prior to his execution. The whole execution scene was just a joke. This movie was just cheap! What a huge disappointment. Not worth the time at all. Instead, just read the story.

PeachHamBeach THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS and MAY BE EDITED FOR LANGUAGE. MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS.I'm not going to put a lot into this review, but suffice it to say, that though I enjoyed FREEWAY by this director, I found this movie based on the horrific story of Ted Bundy far too violent with too much gratuitous nudity and lingering on violent rape scenes. If I was the family of one of his victims, I would feel like I'd been slapped in the face. The playing of some old R&B song over the countless rapes, murders and dumpings of bodies really offended me. We know Bundy was the epitome of a monster, a calculating and deceptive charmer who raped and murdered over and over again. Must we see scene after scene of him screaming, "F*CK YOU, BITCH!"over and over again?!The ending made me angry. I'm not saying it wasn't enormously gratifying to see Bundy get cotton stuffed up his arse or the guards treating his obvious fear with indifference and even scorn. The POS didn't deserve any kindness or mercy. He was never "sorry" about anything he did. He was only sorry he was caught. He was never remorseful about his crimes, only terrified at the end that now it was his turn to die. Why did the ending ultimately offend me? Because while his innocent victims were reduced to naked victims, suddenly Bundy was this "poor, scared guy" who was gonna die. Boo friggin hoo! While I'm sure Michael Reilly Burke is a good actor, he was miscast in this role. He looks nothing like the real Bundy, and honestly, he was given very little to do except act out the profanity of this script.Boti Bliss gave a pretty good performance, but she was just one in a supporting cast of clueless people in Bundy's social circle. Her comments at the end of the film, "Who was Ted Bundy?" were spoken with unconvincing dispassion. If I had let that freak touch me, I'd take a bath in bleach. She seemed very composed given the situation.I recommend THE DELIBERATE STRANGER instead. It tells the story without resorting to graphic gratuity.

Chrysanthepop What was Matthew Bright thinking when he made this film? Why did he want to make it? Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of True Crime and thus it may have been at least a little interesting to see a movie that included the psychology of this killer and his childhood and even the trial (both of which are intriguing and none were in the film). Normally, I don't like to watch movies about real killers because they run the risk of glamourizing things or appear pretentious and campy. Moreover, on the poster there's a cheap tagline that states something like 'the real Hannibal Lector'. Clearly this was the intent of drawing a crowd. I would much rather watch documentaries or read articles (in any case, this is something I make myself do before watching the movie). Bright's 'Ted Bundy' is halfbaked. It's not entirely true to the facts. Much of it pretty much looks like a series of rape and murder scenes (kind of like the ones you'd see in a cheap slasher flick) patched together while the rest is plain boring. His girlfriend Lee is extremely irritating and if she really was like that, I wonder why he hasn't killed her. 'Ted Bundy' also comes across as misogynistic. All the women in this movie are portrayed as stupid. The last scene, with the children, was supposed to evoke horror but I found this desperate attempt to be hilarious. Michael Reilly Burke isn't a bad actor but he's miscast. Overall, Bright's 'Ted Bundy' is a poorly told and inaccurate story of a cold-blooded killer and a pretentious movie.