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VHS : Ted Bundy [VHS]

  
: Ted Bundy [VHS]
See Larger Image 		Ted Bundy [VHS]
starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy, Jennifer Tisdale, Michael Santos
directed by: Matthew Bright

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0687797873033
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Release Date: October 01, 2002
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Sales Rank: 29999



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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - No! No! No!
Bright took tremendous "artistic" liberties in making this film, almost to the point where it borders on being a complete work of fiction.
This movie leaves me with two baffling questions: WHY and HOW?
Not in regard to the motivations of the featured serial killer, but WHY and HOW has this cinematic exploit made it into my DVD player?

What was the point of this movie? Was it to showcase the limited talent of its director/writer, Matthew Bright? If so, then it was brilliant success!


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Sophmoric telling of a horrific story with bland acting
Example, his stupid "girlfriend" never had an inkling that Ted was a little unbalanced? Plus she had her little daughter practically licking his hand, was she that desperate for a "man". I guess so. No insight into why he did these things, besides the obvious hatred for women. He was really free and easy on his killing spree and if it wasen't for the girl he tried to kidnap, escaping and turning in a report to the "police" he would still be on the loose today. Not too much gore, could have been a lot better, good mid-seventies feel to it. Rent "Monster" instead, much better movie.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Succeeds at Shock Value
"Ted Bundy" may have had every intention of being a serious look at the criminal life of Ted Bundy, but good intentions notwithstanding, the film only succeeds at the sheer shock value it projects.
This film is hardly a feel-good or mainstream subject. It really seems to enjoy its subject's depravity - - was it really necessary to show Bundy playing with the head of a victim in his apartment? The film did very little to show Bundy's relationships with friends and family (his living victims, in a sense). The real Bundy allegedly had a troubled relationship with his mother and his stepfather, a subject that was never touched on. The character of Lee, Bundy's longstanding and suffering girlfriend (based on Bundy's real life girlfriend Liz Kendall) comes across as a needy, whiny character who agrees to go along with "playing dead" while having sex with her erratic and volatile boyfriend. Ugh. Were we supposed to feel sympathy for Lee? Or perhaps for Bundy, who always saw himself as a victim?
Michael Reilly Burke does a good job playing Bundy as the degenerate he truly was. While Mark Harmon played Bundy as a suave, charismatic "gentleman" in "The Deliberate Stranger", Burke hits closer to the truth in his dark portrayal.
That being said, even with Burke's chilling performance, the victims seem to get lost in the shuffle. While it is true that Bundy had a large amount of victims, the true number of which has never been known, and certain composites and consolidation must be done for theatrical purposes, playing the old classic "Rescue Me" imposed over images of Bundy bludgeoning various victims, kidnapping various victims, or playing with their dead bodies is vile. To Bundy, the victims were obviously playthings but to continue to perpetrate that myth years later is disrespectful to the victims themselves and their families.
To better know about Bundy and his killing spree, "The Deliberate Stranger" is a much better choice. The characters are not so one dimensional and there is no shock value.




Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gripping, Gruesome, Provocative
I find it odd that this film should have garnered so many negative reviews. Perhaps people's idea of serial killer is a cartoon like Hannibal Lector who, quite offensively, is depicted, particularly in Hannibal, both the book and the film, as a superhuman instead of a monster. This film never flinches from portraying Bundy as a true sadist. As Bundy, Michael Reilly Burke delivers a performance that is brave and brilliant. Director Matthew Sweet also gives us one of the best introductions to a serial killer ever. It begins with Ted Bundy waking up. We see his face from the front (cinema convention usually begins the main character being presented from behind). The idea is that the face we see is an illusion and the truth of who Bundy is slumbers beneath his blandly handsome features. At the start of the film, Bundy comes across as a dork. We see him in a club in a preppy suit pulling off bad John Travolta moves. Then he has water thrown over him while masturbating outside the window of a young woman's apartment. But he is dangerous dork. When he explodes into true violence, bashing a woman with a hammer to rid himself of his frustrations, the moment is truly savage and shocking. As Burke plays Bundy, there is beneath his smooth superficial charm, a perpetual sense of something dangerous and cruel just waiting for release. What the film gets right is the sociopath's unabiding selfishness. For all the cruelty he dishes out, even on those unfortunate enough to love him, Bundy always sees himself as the victim. The film is also one of the few serial killer films to ask some genuine questions about the nature of human violence. It ends with the question "Who is Ted Bundy?" and answers it with a series of children, including a cute little girl holding up a dead cat, giggling "I'm Ted Bundy." Still, what is being suggested here is not simply that baby Bundys are growing up as we speak but that depravity exists not only under cover of normalcy but within normalcy. The frenzy and violent joy of those calling for Bundy to be fried on the electric chair (here Sweet uses actual news footage), suggests there is a bloodlust in all of us waiting for an excuse to get out. Who is Ted Bundy? We are.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Few words for such disappointment
This movie failed horribly! It should have never been made! GLAD TED BUNDY DIDN'T SEE IT! I guess this is what happens when someone's life, or crimes....is viewed and dissected by another. This was painful to watch. Another dust collector!