Bundy: A Legacy of Evil

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.

An episodic plot renders this film structurally inane. One scene has Ted in the desert on his hands and knees howling like a wolf. Cut to an interior scene in some house at Christmas where Ted is on the phone as a suicide prevention counselor. Where's the connection between these two events? The film doesn't tell us. The plot is filled with these random scenes from random periods in Bundy's life, sans any sense of flow or continuity.

Slow, dull, and boring, this film reeks of a quickly written script and overall quick, superficial production. There's not an ounce of suspense or tension. Episodes are long and drawn out. Bundy's manipulation skills are not well displayed, though the one sequence at the restaurant wherein he proposes marriage comes close to showing how he could deceive. Dialogue lacks subtext. The final twenty-minute segment is marginally interesting but only because the real-life outcome is so gripping.

Corin Nemec is dreadfully miscast as Bundy. Nemec, who vaguely resembles a youthful Pat Boone, looks nothing at all like the real Ted Bundy. The crooked smile comes across as contrived. And Nemec plays Bundy like a caricature. Many of the supporting performances are overplayed.

If ever there was a real-life serial killer whose public persona offers the potential for a riveting movie, surely Ted Bundy is the one. Unfortunately, a dreadful script makes for a muddled, incoherent storyline, helped not at all by poor casting and bad acting.

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.

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.