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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: Directed by Joe Berlinger. With Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan, Sydney Vollmer. A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
- (105K)
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Joe Berlinger
- 2019-05-03
Mar 11, 2024 · Lists about Ted Bundy, the charismatic confessed serial slayer of at least 30 young women across seven states throughout the 1970s. Explore this curated list of the best movies and TV shows about Ted Bundy, including The Deliberate Stranger, The Riverman, and more - ranked by fans.
- Patrick Thornton
- 10 Bundy and The Green River Killer
- 9 Bundy: An American Icon
- 8 American Boogeyman
- 7 Ted Bundy
- 6 The Capture of The Green River Killer
- 5 The Riverman
- 4 The Stranger Beside Me
- 3 The Deliberate Stranger
- 2 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
- 1 No Man of God
The Movie Has Bundy Consulting On Another Case
One of the modern Ted Bundy movies released is actually not about Bundy's days as a serial killer, but about him consulting on another case. In reality,Ted Bundy was interviewed about the Green River Serial Killer when there were no leads in the case. This is actually a practice law enforcement will take, especially when convicted serial killers might be serving multiple life sentences in prison. That's the story Bundy And The Green River Killertells. In the real-life incident, Bundy was on d...
An Unreliable Biopic From An Unreliable Narrator
Bundy: An American Icon (also known as Bundy: A Legacy of Evil) is a horror movie directed by Michael Feifer that purports to be a biopic of "The Lady Killer" Theodore Cowell.Unfortunately for anyone looking for a fact-based affair, it follows Feifer's other serial killer movies (including movies about Ed Gein, BTK, and the Boston Strangler) by caring little for the truth. It dramatizes Bundy’s life from his troubled childhood to his arrest and trial and feels like little more than exploitati...
Told Through The Eyes Of FBI Agents
The first of two 2021 properties, Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman is written and directed by Daniel Farrands (The Haunting of Sharon Tate) and stars Chad Michael Murray as the title character. The film starts with Bundy's first abduction of a woman in 1974 and the murders that followed. Much like another true-crime biopic, The Highwaymenwhich focused on the law enforcement tacking Bonnie & Clyde, this movie was less concerned about Bundy than it was about tracking this serial killer down, a jou...
Critics Thought It To Be Exploitative
Ted Bundy was directed and co-written by Matthew Bright. The story picks up in 1974 when Bundy was a law student and began his murder sprees. The infamous killer was played by Michael Reilly Burke (Mars Attacks!), whose performance was pointed out as the best thing in the movie, though it was affected by the story and tone of the movie, which critics labeled as “exploitative.” That assessment is thoroughly justified: the Ted Bundy 2002 movie's commitment to bothering with the truth, again, is...
The TV Movie Doesn't Really Justify The Effort
The Capture of the Green River Killer is a two-part TV movie that focuses on the story of the Green River killer serial murders between 1982 and 1998. Just like in The Riverman, Bundy comes into play when he offers his help to the detectives working on the case. Bundy's real-life involvement in the case also helped to inspire The Silence of the Lambs as serial killer Hannibal Lecter helps FBI agent Clarice Starling. This version of Bundy is played by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's James Marsters....
Another Movie About Bundy And The Green River Killer
The Riverman was a Ted Bundy TV movie directed by Bill Eagles (Beautiful Creatures) and based on the book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer by Robert D. Keppel and William J. Birnes. It follows criminology professor Robert D. Keppel who is offered help by Bundy to profile a serial killer, later dubbed “The Riverman”. Although Bundy wasn’t much help, he did shed some light on his own pathology. Bundy was played by Cary Elwes, known for his roles in The Princess Brid...
A Co-Worker Tells All When It Comes To Ted Bundy
The Stranger Beside Me is a made-for-TV movie based on the book of the same name by Ann Rule, who worked with Bundy before his murders and even considered him her friend. Rule worked for a suicide crisis hotline when she met Bundy, a work-study student studying psychology. In this version, Bundy was played by Billy Campbell, and Barbara Hershey played Rule. Buoyed by two great central performances, it's a strong addition and easily one of the best made-for-TV true crime efforts of the Bundy c...
A Made-For-TV Movie Praised For Being Accurate
The Deliberate Stranger is a TV movie based on the bookBundy: The Deliberate Stranger by reporter Richard W. Larsen, published in 1980. The movie skips Bundy’s childhood and first murders and begins with the murder of Georgann Hawkins, later following Bundy's crimes in Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida. Bundy was played by Mark Harmon, best known for playing SSA Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS, and Bundy's lawyer Polly Nelson called the movie "stunningly accurate" and praised Harmon's perfor...
Zac Efron In A Different Kind Of Role For The Usual Comedic Actor
Zac Efron plays Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. The movie is a crime drama directed by Joe Berlinger, and is based on the book The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall, Bundy’s former girlfriend. The title of the movie is a reference to judge Edward Cowart’s (played by John Malkovich) remarks on Bundy’s crimes while sentencing him to death. The story begins in 1969, when Bundy and Elizabeth meet, and is told through her perspective, covering his jou...
Considered To Be The Best Movie On The Subject
The most recent Ted Bundy movie highlights a chilling performance from Luke Kirby as No Man of God's Bundy. It's directed by Amber Sealey and written by C. Robert Cargill (Sinister, Doctor Strange). The movie is based on real-life transcripts selected from the conversations between Bundy and FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (played by Elijah Wood) that happened between 1984 and 1989. Also starring are Robert Patrick and Aleksa Palladino in supporting roles, but this is very much a two-man affair, wi...
- Amanda Bruce
A 2019 biographical crime drama film about serial killer Ted Bundy, based on his former girlfriend's memoir. The film stars Zac Efron as Bundy and Lily Collins as his ex-girlfriend Liz Kendall, who struggles to cope with his crimes and escapes.
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman: Directed by Daniel Farrands. With Chad Michael Murray, Holland Roden, Jake Hays, Lin Shaye. The intrepid FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and Robert Ressler, organize one of the largest manhunt in history to apprehend America's most infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy.
- (1.9K)
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Daniel Farrands
- 2021-08-16
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered).
Single mother Liz falls for Ted Bundy and refuses to believe the truth about his crimes for years. A drama based on a true story. Watch trailers & learn more.
