How accurate is ted bundy: american boogeyman

4/10

Silly

Chad Michael Murray is the Tedster this time around and he looks nothing like the serial killer and his hair appears to be roadkill of an unknown animal. The first half is accurate, at least, with real names of victims used. The second half goes off the rails with Bundy transforming into Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise. A female Seattle cop is made the heroine of the story and the final ten minutes are downright ridiculous. Dramatic license is one thing but a complete revision of history is infuriating. Skip this nonsense and watch No Man of God to see the great performance of Luke Kirby, hopefully an Oscar nominee.

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1/10

Utter Rubbish

If your going to watch this please know it's mostly a fictional interpretation. This story distorts all the facts about Ted Bundy and adds things to the story that never happened. The real life story of Ted Bundy is truly horrific so there is no need to add flair to the story.

The woman running around acting like she was some mind hunter was ridiculous. Why did the director chose to change how the Chi Omega murders went down?

The guy who played Bundy didn't even look like him. When did Bundy have a handle bar mustache?

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2/10

Perfect While Vacuuming

At this point in the game, if you're not introducing new information to the topic, you're simply looking to capitalize on a famous murderer with an easy story because you just couldn't get over your personal fascination - to the detriment of the film industry.

Dialogue & direction are one long eye-roll.

Tried really hard to be creepy.

All comes off forced & fake.

Someone should have told them they're already making "American Horror Story".

Not worth the time.

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1/10

Written by a freshman Woman's Studies Major

I have seen all of the Ted Bundy movies. The Ted Bundy 2000, The Deliberate Stranger and No Man of God are the 3 best. This was the absolute worst.

From fiction to budget to acting. Piss poor.

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3/10

What Happened?

You've got the craziest killer for subject matter and and some good talent to boot, but you end up with a cardboard Bundy and a made-for-tv feel.

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2/10

Did they have script, or just a history book?

This is really kind of an odd film.. it doesn't really follow Bundy telling his story, nor does it really follow the police chasing him. At first, you think it's going to be more about the female police detective pursuing Bundy.. but your'e wrong.... It's a hodgepodge of scenes around the "theme" of Bundy and the chase without ever really focusing on any one specific storyline. There's no "core storyline" at all.

It seems as though they started with the idea/concept of wanting to portray the sorority house Bundy is infamous for, then tried to pad out a film around that idea. If it weren't for the sprinkles of coarse language, and a single adult-themed scene, I'd have sworn this was "made for tv".

I sat through the entire thing without realizing it - expecting SOMETHING to pick up and be more engaging. Ultimately it's a film which, through character dialog (as in the scripted words for the characters), literally TELLS the audience the facts surrounding Bundy rather than showing them. And its the same story that's been done a million times, only with less detail, less interesting characters, and CLEARLY less direction and money.

This really is at the absolute bottom of the "Bundy films" I've seen over the years.

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1/10

How many?

It's amazing how many movies and documentaries have been done about bundy. At this point (actually long before it) any new project focusing on him is just glorification. Plain and simple. Families of the victims and even one victim herself gets to watch as the the media keeps giving that p.o.s. Attention. It's one thing for behavioral scientists to study and watch his stuff and those in the serial killer hunting business to pull apart and really examine who he was but, that not what this is. He was executed so long ago and yet Hollywood just wants to keep him alive like they are paying tribute to him over and over.

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1/10

Embarrassing!

I should have read these reviews before I wasted $40 dollars for two tickets on this embarrassing B grade movie. When you have three people giving a film 10 /10 and an equal number giving it 1/10 then one must be a tad suspicious. This movie is a cynical attempt to make a cheap horror film using a well known story to try and drive up interest. This was so bad that i was compelled to come home and sign up for an IMDb user account so I could write a review to warn others.

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1/10

Hard pass

Besides the actor who plays Bundy this is a throwaway cliche television movie with a narrative against men in general while also showing unbelievable unreliant scenes of Bundy being Michael Myers in side by side similar parts.

Watch the one with Zach Effron instead.

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1/10

Just Sad

Whoever wrote this had zero knowledge of the crimes. Terrible.

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Why?

Esken5 September 2021

Warning: Spoilers

More or less all of this film is pure fiction.

Slapping a "Ted Bundy" title on a film is easy, but if you have absolutely no intention of telling a story that remotely resembles the actual event, except from that he was a killer, you only do this for your own game.

And what that has actually been told from the truth is so far from what happened. Location-wise, and actions. Why?

There is also NO likeness between the actor and Bundy.

So again, WHY!?

And the female cop has no place in this story. Who is she in real life?

There has been two good Bundy-films the last couple of years. The Joe Berlinger one, and the latest, "No man of god".

This film has absolutely NO connect with Ted Bundy, or his crimes.

The director likes to make films about real crimes, and some are actually decent. THIS is not one of them.

I just don't see ANY reason for making a film about true crime if you don't want to use real facts, or try to make it look like what it was when it happened.

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1/10

A director that specialises in exploiting real life tragedies for monetary gain, with terrible movies

First let's not ignore the movie itself. If you are looking for a film to explore the real Ted Bundy, you are far better off watching the 2002 or 2019 films based on him, which are far closer to the truth, and far less glorifying of the killer. They're also actually decent movies in their own right. This is the polar opposite.

This film is almost pure fiction, poorly cast and at times poorly acted. Chad Michael Murray may act okay, but he doesn't act anything like Ted Bundy; he lacks any of the charm and charisma that Bundy was known for, in fact, the character is Ted Bundy in name only as the actual character doesn't represent Bundy whatsoever. There are so many liberties taken with the real facts, people and and events for "entertainment" that they don't fit with reality.

It's ultimately a dull, unremarkable movie that does nothing to explore the real Ted Bundy, his crimes, or his victims, but instead uses the Ted Bundy name in a desperate attempt to get money through a work of fiction that uses his name for marketing.

If this had been a thriller that didn't try to cheaply cash in on the name of a real-life serial killer, it still wouldn't be great, but it might have received another star or two. However, Mr. Farrands knows exactly what he's doing.

This isn't the writer/director's first exploitation of fictional films about real life tragedies for his personal gain. He has now produced 5 films based on real-life crimes, with one more in post-production. Many of those still have living persons, either related or victims themselves of those tragedies, that this man is exploiting for a cheap buck and absolutely no regard for the truth or the people involved who suffered, and continue to suffer. He merely uses notorious people, crimes and tragedies to create his own fictional stories. It's even worse in the fact that they're not even good films in their own right.

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1/10

An exploitative cash grab

What isn't bad about this film honestly? Some of the cinematography was half decent. And that's it.

This is a terribly written script with glaring historical inaccuracies, awful performances and is nothing more than a gross exploitation of Bundy's story that offers zero new insight nor does it justify its existence in any way other than it being a soulless cash grab.

Go watch and support the infinitely better film No Man of God.

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1/10

Paid $19 and walked out

The worst movie I've seen this year. Empty, amateurish, and just boring. Murray conveys none of Bundy's reputed charm and the rest of the cast seems like dinner theater rejects. The limited budget shows in every scene with a lack of extras or the kind of polish that would at least mean the movie was interesting to look at.

There was nothing redeeming about the 40 minutes I spent watching. It felt like a high school production. Don't waste your time.

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1/10

I laughed the whole time at how bad this movie was

This movie was absolute garbage. The acting was very amateur - not a single good actor/actress was in this movie. Don't waste your time or money - I should've seen The Rock's new Disney movie instead.

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1/10

A comical woke feminist dream

Female super agent predicts every single one of Bundy's moves and dresses down the male chauvinist agents who surround her including her boss who she tells to "F off". She knows everything and chases Bundy down but doesn't catch him because we'll, the writer didn't want to go "overboard" with reality lol. The film even takes credit away from the agent who coined the term "serial killer" (he died ten years ago and can't stick up for himself... typical feminist tactic). The film opens with a college girl telling her friend "Men... are...pigs"! That should tell you all you need to know about this nonsensical fairy tale. Pass this post to friends while it lasts.

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2/10

Give it a miss

Definitely not the best story telling of Ted Bundy. I honestly thought that it was going to break into a porn movie. It had that kind of acting and actors about it. There were certain scenes that needed exploring more but just seemed to cut off and pick up at a different time. There are better versions of this story out there.

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1/10

I would have given this a zero if possible.

Worst waste of time spent watching a movie in a while. It started out okay and then the creative license kicked in and it turned totally ridiculous. The majority of this movie is not even close to factually accurate and was poorly written to boot.

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1/10

Truely dreadful

Mildly enjoying at first then turned into utter chaos. Creative liberty is putting it mildly. Poorly made, bad acting, cringe storyline and just downright bad. Don't even bother with this one.

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1/10

It's Time to Stop! It's Time to Stop, Okay? No More!

There's really isn't anything I can add about this mockery. This "movie" is exactly as the other entries in this disgusting director's insipid collection. Instead it's a critique on this Director, Daniel Farrands and why he's the worst director working in Hollywood. Yes, worse than Michael Bay, Joel Schumacher, Neil Breen, AND Uwe Boll.

It is amazing how in *2* years, he made 4 movies and all of them are equally appalling. What makes him worse than the aforementioned directors is the wonton awareness. Mr. Farrands is aware that his films are tasteless garbage, but he makes no effort to improve, no desire to change. He's aware that a psychological horror adaption of Sharon Tate's tragic final months was a terrible and tasteless idea, and he made it anyways. Same for Nicole Simpson AND Ted Bundy. He makes movies without passion, no interesting take(s) or perspective(s) on these tragic stories, no desire to respect the sanctity of these stories, and no desire to go beyond the bare minimum of just showcasing a moving picture. His films thrive on sensationalism and sensationalism alone, which I would qualify as the lowest standard of Low Art. Farrands deserves to be blacklisted by every studio in Hollywood and have his directorial career die in silence. It's time to stop.

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1/10

Complete fiction!!

This storyline is completely fictional and made up. This storyline does not correlate with the facts. Very little truth. The acting was fair. Waste of time.

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1/10

WORST MOVIE EVER !!!!

I hope Ted Bundy haunts Chad Michael Murray for this truly terrible movie. Absolute garbage.

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1/10

Terrible

Beyond ridiculous. I literally have no words for how bad this really is.

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1/10

Worst movie ever made. Literally.

Acting is so beyond painfully bad. It's like a group of wannabe actors put some money together and hired a director and told him or her "don't give us direction." I kept watching just because I was in disbelief that it could be this bad. The acting is soooooooooooo bad throughout (with the exception of Chad Michael Murray - he does what he can with the poor script). But the other actors...omg was this a non-union film? Did any of the actors EVER take an acting class? I've seen student films with Oscar-worthy performances compared to this...if you want to watch a movie just to laugh at how bad the acting is, this is your jam!

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