Powerful

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Yet another one, in the notorious chain of true life serial killer movies, being dished out, here's one not to overlook, featuring a fabulous and explosively magnetizing performance from it's lead, primarily a t.v actor. As really knowing mot much about this guy, where Mark Harmon had played him in a t.v. film, we see the real true colors of the infamous serial nutter, who was believed to have killed up to 35 women. We get to see at first hand, how this manipulative psycho worked. Me myself, saw him at times as a very anxious and hard to relax psycho, where doing things on spare of the moment, not just killing, was a sort of relaxer. As most serial killers come from bad upbringings, Bundy was privileged, a wannabe lawyer, where his girlfriend was paying for his tuition, from where his real fantasies of killing, became uncontrollable realities. Control and Submission was what fueled this "white trash thinking guy" on, sexually, where here was a handsome killer, who can pull ladies in, with his facade of charm and goodwill. Like Henry Lee Lucas, Bundy took off, where begun a new chain of prey. No doubt some scenes here will be hard to take, like in that boat shed, or scenes where he's fu..ing girl's and woman's corpses. Some scenes that really had me kind of on edge, were the ones with his girlfriend, some including inter course, where I was worried for the girlfriend's sake, her last line at the end of movie, stronger than anything else in it. Very much an improvement from Bright's Freeway, here's a real serial killer tale done in a first rate telling of story. It's great when unknown actors can deliver amazing work like this, and O'Reilly will really give you the creeps, especially if he's lurking around outside your house, playing spy. Fine serial killer drama, all the way, from which director Bright can bring more of the this stuff to the table.

Ted Bundy is anything but a stranger to our screens; the fascination with this personification of evil, the man who became the first serial killer – in name if not in deed – knows no bounds, and certainly didn't for the daffy women who became his trial groupies. We see none of that here because his trials are glossed over, clearly something had to be in order to keep the film to a manageable length.Michael Reilly Burke puts in a convincing performance, and there are some graphic scenes, but arguably the two most memorable are where he kidnaps Carol DaRonch – called Tina Gabler here – and gets the worst of it from a young woman who fought like a tigress knowing full well that if she didn't escape his clutches then and there, she would not get out of that car alive. The other scene is where across a prison table his girlfriend finally sees him for the monster he is. Bundy's arrest for the DaRonch kidnapping should have been the end of his reign of evil; it beggars belief how such a clearly dangerous individual was permitted to escape not once but twice. The result was the sorority house murders and then his final victim – the youngest we can say for certain – 12 year old Kimberly Leach. She was given a "nom de plume" here, but her name slipped out in the archive footage at the end.There has been criticism of this film from other reviewers, but as with similar efforts, like the more recent "...Dirty Little Secret", the film-makers strived for authenticity and achieved it in some degree. It is our fault rather than theirs that so many of us consider serial murder to be entertainment.

This film looks OK, its entertaining enough, its never boring. It does however come off as a sort of comedy serial killer film. When girls are getting killed to funky disco music and you have cheesy kids saying corny lines like ' gee whizz, stay with us so we can be like a proper family' ' sorry munchkin' etc you really can't take it seriously. There is none of the gravity you would expect from a true story. Its more like a ted bundy's greatest hits compilation. The film basically jumps from one killing to the next and when the killings stop the film ends. It doesn't really want to get bogged down with real drama but it managed to squeeze in a 5 second 'i am spartacus scene' just to give it a semblance of being anything other than a slasher movie, unfortunately for the majority of the film I was reminded of the benny hill routine..the one where he's running after scantily clad women in fast forward. Like I said its entertaining none the less, just feels like something's been lost.

For those of you not familiar with Ted Bundy and his crimes (if that's possible), this is the one to watch. But be prepared, you will have to have the stomach for it, because it is downright, shocking, disturbing, and sick, and it will stay in your mind long after the film is over. A few things i found disappointing about the movie though, were, in parts, the acting left a lot to be desired, the humour was a little over the top (and not really necessary under the circumstances), and there were a few inconsistency's in the story. But for the most part, this was probably the most accurate when it comes down to just how truly depraved his acts were. Nonetheless, as disturbing as it was, it was thoroughly engrossing from start to finish. I highly recommend it.