2019: The Year of Ted Bundy?
 

The trailer for the Zac Efron film dropped on Friday, the same day Netflix released their four-part doc about Bundy's crimes, the journalists, cops, and victims.

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I watched the first 2 episodes of The Bundy Tapes on Netflix last night. Fascinating. Dude didn't seem to settle. Normally you see pictures of the victims and they're mostly 5's with a couple kids, maybe a 7 sprinkled in among a few desperation 3 prostitutes. Bundy, being a decent looking fellow himself, seemed to hunt physically attractive "good girls". That was the first thing that stuck out to me in those episodes.

I saw some friends talking about this - what are they - like 3 episodes deep?

I will eventually watch it, I guess.

Looks like the perfect cast.

I'm in.

That does look really interesting. Going to be hard to take Jim Parsons seriously as anything other than Sheldon, though.

Do they cover the Ann Rule stuff?

Dude honed his patter manning suicide hotlines.

He was the complete package sociopath.

Not really in too much depth. They touch on it in Part I.

They do spend time on how his early work on the periphery of law enforcement helped him find weakness he could exploit.

Ted Bundy originally wanted to be either a politician or a lawyer. He ultimately rejected those professions and chose a more honorable path.

Objectively as a man, i don't see the hoopla on how attractive this guy was? Perhaps it was for the times, but i keep hearing how GOOD looking he was and this dude was average. I mean the way they talk about him it's as if he's a Brad Pitt clone or w/e classically good lookin standards the world has. lol Dude is nuts.

I think it's more along the lines of being good looking for a serial killer. As an average person he's only a 6, but for a serial killer he's a 9. Look at your average serial killer. They're not exactly the best looking people on the planet.

Yeah, it was the 30th anniversary that he was executed. I watched the netflix documentary and it wasn't bad. Movie, if done right, could be really really good. Of course, you can literally say that about any movie.

The series was great! I was too young to remember anything but seeing that he was executed on the news. What a master manipulator that guy was. He had the judge praise him after giving him the death sentence. I'm just blown away at how he got away with what he got away with. He epitomized everything evil, vain and selfish about humanity.

I don't know. I think you're grading by modern standards. Particularly with the eyes and smile, he's right in with the Chris Knight, Shaun Cassidy, Donny Osmaond, Lief Erickson, Tiger Beat types of the era.

He was good looking then and still would be. If he was in a Judd Apatow rom com? Bankable star potential.

He is the scariest killer ever. The way he manipulates absolutely everyone is just terrifying. You want to learn from his mind to catch others, but at the same time, he managed to have a kid in custody like a happy family and shit, so who knows what he is capable of getting people to do. Good riddance!