Bundy: A Legacy of Evil

When I saw this movie, the other day, on cable, it played with the title, "Bundy: A Legacy Of Evil," which is a much better title than the original one. As far as the film goes, I don't know what to complain about first. I guess the poor acting is a good start. The actor who played Bundy in this movie was not very convincing. Neither was anyone else for that matter. What was worse was the story line, or lack of it. At times, they would go from any particular scene and cut to a random shot where he is killing a woman while some crappy Alternative Rock music loudly plays. Now I know that Alternative Rock gets its roots from 60s and 70s rock, but it doesn't quite sound the same. I didn't know if they had momentarily slipped into the 90s or what? The music was so annoying I started to hit the mute button whenever it would come on.

They also got several facts wrong, but what movie doesn't do that anyway? I wouldn't have minded that so much if they had just pieced the story together somehow. By cutting to random killings and scenes in different cities or situations with no explanation or setup, I would not have had any idea what was going on without knowing what I already knew before seeing the movie.

I read the book by Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me and this movie was a complete failure at portraying Ted Bundy. The judge who sentenced Bundy to death in the case of Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman was NOT Foggerty it was Edward Cowart. He was not picked up and his car was NOT searched in the middle of the desert, his car was searched by 3 policemen not one. And the Warden was NOT the one who recorded the confessions it was Bob Keppel. He killed 2 girls at the Chi Omega house with a WOOD CLUB not a baseball bat that was in the girls' room, and he seriously injured 2 more girls in the same sorority house, then he killed another woman down the road from them. The movie left out SOOOO many important details. Like where was Ann Rule at the Crisis Center, and what about Carol Ann Boone?, the woman he had a daughter with? It is a TERRIBLE, AWFUL, movie don't bother to rent it or buy it, Read Ann Rule's book along with Bob Keppel's for the real story of Ted Bundy!

I think the title here is appropriate in that I do believe that this film may be the worst film that I have ever seen. I am in complete accordance with member "lovemyhayabusa" and I too read Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me". This film is a gross misrepresentation of Ted Bundy on a personal level. In addition the film is seriously disturbing and this is not balanced by the interesting features of the case. I mean come on the World has been fascinated by the case of Ted Bundy since the 1970s! How can you make a movie about such a fascinating subject so pointless and uninteresting? Also, I take particular offense at how careless the film makers were with regard to the actual facts of the case and in the misrepresentation of Ted himself. I live in LA and I recognized many of the locations in which this film was shot. At no time did Ted Bundy live or kill in Los Angeles and many of the killing scenes are filmed in desert and he mostly killed in Washington State and Florida. I know that it was low budget (obviously) but there could've been some effort made to make the locations look reminiscent of the actual places the murders occurred. Its ridiculous and almost funny how inaccurate this film is. This is my advice for the film makers and those involved: If you're not going to make a film well (or at least descent for Christ's sake) don't make it at all. In addition the acting is very clumsy and the lead seriously botched his job. This was horrible and quite possibly the worst ever. Frankly, I don't understand how it was rated as high as it is (3.8) it should be at most a 2, I think. But that's just me.

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.

This has got to be the most awful film I have watched in a long time. In fact, I will as go as far as to say that it's worse than my all time movie low (which near enough caused me to have a mental breakdown and was only saved by disappearing out of the cinema to do some retail therapy) Scooby Doo the movie.

This is a waste of time, the acting is poor and I mean POOR - low budget doesn't have to mean this BAD. I am a little tired of these so called biography films where the writer and director get off on scenes of violence (in between scenes of pure mind numbing tedious acting).

SO - if you get your kicks from listening to piercing screams, with not one great attempt at acting in site, this is the film for you! If they had to tell this lunatics story, then they could have done it so much better than this. I shudder to think who would call it a great film - but then the word 'cult' will no doubt be used instead of the word 'crap'. But hey, you never know how drunk you need to be to get through to the end.