Here are some answers if you were confused why the Netflix film about Ted Bundy is more love story then slasher flick.
Despite Zac Efron’s performance, the film’s humorous take on a serial killer as a rock star doesn't really work.
Getting the role of a serial killer out of your head is nothing like moving on from catchy showtunes.
The trailer for the serial killer movie manages to be dark and creepy without showing any of the actual crimes.
Netflix has released a new Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile trailer. The new movie from Joe Berlinger (Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes) looks at the crimes of Ted Bundy (Zac Efron) from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend Liz (Lily Collins). I caught the film at Sundance and felt that Berlinger had fallen into a bit of a trap in trying to capture Bundy. In looking at his subject, he missed all his victims and saw the same seductive sociopath the rest of the world saw, so there’s not a lot of new insight even …
Despite Zac Efron’s performance, the film’s humorous take on a serial killer as a rock star doesn't really work.
Netflix has acquired the rights for reportedly $9 million to director Joe Berlinger's Ted Bundy film, starring Zac Efron.
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival may be complete, but the acquisitions aren’t yet over. One of the hottest sales titles was surely Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which stars Zac Efron as Ted Bundy. The film premiered to fairly positive reviews, although some critics had their reservations about the value of such a story being told. Now THR reports that Netflix is in talks to acquire the U.S. rights and some international rights to distribute the film for an impressive $9 million, beating out competitors like Lionsgate and STXfilms. While that number is less than what Amazon …
Zac Efron knew the risk in taking on this role and made a conscious effort to toe the line and not make Ted Bundy into an aspirational figure.
People have long been fascinated by serial killers. What could make one human being capable of being so evil towards his fellow man? But Ted Bundy remains one of the most intriguing monsters in history simply because of how strongly people wanted to not believe he could be capable of the horrors he inflicted on women throughout his life. He was famously charismatic and charming, to the point that he had a gaggle of young female supporters all throughout his murder trial. This dichotomy between Bundy’s seemingly charismatic nature and the nausea-inducing crimes he committed is the crux …
Beneath the charming and charismatic exterior lurks unspeakable horrors in the film about the notorious serial killer.
With director Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile getting ready to world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Voltage Pictures has released the first trailer for the thriller featuring Zac Efron as the serial killer Ted Bundy. Written by Michael Werwie, the film approaches Bundy’s story from the point of view of his longtime live-in girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, played by Lily Collins, during the years that he hid his crimes from her. John Malcovich stars as Judge Edward Cowart, who presided over the serial killer’s 1979 trial and Jim Parson plays Larry Simpson, the …