Ted Bundy

2002 Drama

Director Matthew Bright (Freeway) directs this tale of one of the most notorious serial killers in the annals of crime. Standing in stark contrast to the generally accepted view of serial killers, Ted Bundy (Michael Reilley Burke) was intelligent, quick-witted, and handsome. Engaged to a beautiful fiancée who never suspected his murderous tendencies, the feral Bundy develops a taste for murder that ultimately results in the deaths of at least 19 young women through the course of the 1970s. From posing as an injured driver and luring unsuspecting women to their deaths to an astonishing pair of jailbreaks and his ultimate death by capital punishment, viewers follow the murderous madman on a crime spree that shocked a nation and left the public's perception of what a serial killer is truly capable of forever changed.

Director: Matthew Bright

Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Marina Black, Steffani Brass, Renee Madison Cole

 16 Reviews  2 Awards

Reviews

  • Looks set to unsettle as many conservative auds as it will delight nihilistic film buffs.

    Derek Elley - Variety

    27 April 2013

  • Bright, who reworked co-writer Stephen Johnston's screenplay, changed all the names except Bundy's so he could "make up stuff," but the irony is how close to the facts -- at least to the degree they're known -- he stays.

    Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide

    27 April 2013

  • The last scenes etch one of the most revealing depictions of capital punishment ever put on the wide screen.

    David Sterritt - Christian Science Monitor

    27 April 2013

  • 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. "Badlands" this ain't.

    Michael Atkinson - Village Voice

    27 April 2013

  • It's just another discordant note in this tone-deaf movie -- a trashy, exploitative, thoroughly unpleasant experience.

    Megan Lehmann - New York Post

    27 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Actor

    Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2003)

     

  • Matthew Bright

    Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (2002)

     

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