Bundy: A Legacy of Evil

So here's the thing: this movie has a 3.7 on IMDb, which usually means "do not enter, abandon all hope." But honestly? The film itself isn't that bad. It's cheaply made, sure, but it has a certain trashy charm. The performances are fine, the pacing doesn't drag, and there's even a little atmosphere here and there. It's watchable. If only my ears hadn't been assaulted the entire time.

Because holy mother of mixtapes, the soundtrack. I cannot stress this enough: it is wretched. It's not just "bad" like a low-budget synth score-it's bad in a way that feels malicious. Like the musicians were personally out to ruin your day. Every scene that might have worked is immediately kneecapped by a song that sounds like a garage band from 2002 who were told, "Hey guys, can you capture the energy of sadness, but also make it unlistenable?" And they nailed it.

There are full-on songs in here. Singing. Lyrics. As if Bundy's story wasn't grim enough, Feifer decided to slap in some bargain-bin emo ballads that sound like a rejected soundtrack to a PlayStation 2 snowboarding game. Imagine watching Ted Bundy do something horrifying while a whiny rock track screeches in the background like a raccoon stuck in a blender. That's the vibe.

And the thing is-I can see why this movie is rated 3.7. If you rate it as cinema, maybe a 5. If you rate it as a listening experience, it should be studied at The Hague. Seriously, the music alone justifies war crime tribunals.

Which leaves the question: why, Michael Feifer? Why did you do this to us? Did one of the band members help you move a refrigerator once and you owed them eternal debt? Did you lose a poker game where the prize was "force my demo tape into your movie"? Or-hear me out-was this deliberate? Was the real goal to make us suffer? Was this Feifer's idea of method filmmaking, forcing the audience to feel Bundy's sadism by enduring the world's worst soundtrack on loop?

I swear, halfway through I stopped caring about Bundy's crimes and started wondering if I'd ever hear silence again. When the third dreadful ballad kicked in, I caught myself bargaining with God: "If you mute this movie, I'll be a better person."

So yeah-the film itself? Not unwatchable. The soundtrack? An unholy chimera of Nickelback, Creed, and a car alarm. "Bundy: A Legacy of Evil" isn't about Bundy. It's about how evil the music is. Bundy may have killed women in the '70s, but Feifer's soundtrack is still out here killing audiences in 2009 and beyond.

Final score: Movie-5/10. Music-please delete from existence.

Corin Nemec is a talented actor and best remembered for his performance on the Fox series, "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," and playing Steven Stayner in "I Know My First Name is Steven." In this low budget thriller, he plays Ted Bundy. He has already played Richard Speck and the Boston strangler. Ted Bundy was a complex man and one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. The scene where he opens a file and closes it without mentioning what was in it about his birth father. As somebody who read Ann Rule's book, his paternity has never been explained. Ted was attractive, charming and intelligent but he couldn't overcome his inner demons. Unlike the Green River Killer, his victims were not the usual prostitutes. Bundy killed women after tricking them into his car. We never really know what he with his victims besides killing them. Nemec's performance is the only salvageable part of this forgettable film. You should watch Mark Harmon in the role.

Please, if you haven't see it, don't. It will not fit any expectation you might have. If you are a film student, this is a guide for everything you should not do in film making.

Starting with the long unnecessary takes and the bad acting followed by a very bad illumination and a terrible soundtrack. This is such a wasted subject, I mean we are talking about Ted Bundy here, this is some serious stuff. If you want to know about Bundy go check the interviews and info online.

Filmwise, is not told in a interesting way and the soap opera look doesn't fit right. After watching the movie, I had one idea of the source for his urge for killing. and after I did some research it seams to me that the movie did not portrayed it correctly.

Is incredible how all the bad stuff eats on the good work of others in the same project.

This movie is awful. It's as if someone scanned through the Ted Bundy wiki page and then wrote a screenplay from what they could remember. I can count on my hand the moments in the film that were accurate (not including character names) - and most of them were very small aspects.

Besides the obvious COMPLETE butchery of all the facts, the movie was poorly paced. The acting was often very cheesy. The lead actor might have done a decent job with a good script and director. However, he seemed to have a pallet of creepy facial expressions he'd rotate through. Furthermore, he limped for the whole movie. I realize that some of the only footage available of Ted Bundy walking shows him limping, but it was because he had shackles around his ankles.

This movie was made out of an obsession with serial killers, which is probably why the focus was so helplessly off of the REAL Ted Bundy case - and who he actually was as a person. The part where he howls like a werewolf? Please. They even missed the boat on the method he used to kill. So many things missed - and for no apparent reason. Anyone who has read any account of his killing spree, or trials, would be able to write a better screenplay.

Also: This movie literally took me a month to finish. I'd stop about every three times something was so bad that I couldn't continue anymore. And it took me a month to get through the entire thing.

I happened to find this movie by random coincidence at the local secondhand DVD store for about $2. I do enjoy horror movies, and a movie based on the actual serial killer couldn't be all bad. But I was a bit hesitant about it when I saw who had the lead part.

Without going into much details about the story, then it can be easily summarized as a movie about notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

Story-wise then "Bundy: A Legacy of Evil" was unfathomably boring and rather uneventful actually. You don't care for any of the characters in the movie, be it victims or killer. Why? Well, because everything was so superficial and shallow that you can't emerge yourself into anything. And the actual killing scenes were just unimpressive.

One thing that did work for the movie, and which was much of a surprise for me. This was perhaps one of the best performances by Corin Nemec. It was just a shame that he was held back by a flaccid storyline and script. Also, Kane Hodder is in the movie, which was a bonus for any horror fan, but it was nowhere near enough to salvage this movie, not by a long shot.

"Bundy: A Legacy of Evil" is really not worth wasting your time or money on. If you like movies about real serial killers, then there are some better choices available.