Girlfriend
  • News
  • Beauty
  • Fashion
  • Life and Advice
  • Entertainment
  • Role Model Search
  • Dolly Doctor
  • Video
Girlfriend
  • News
  • Beauty
  • Fashion
  • Life and Advice
  • Entertainment
  • Role Model Search
  • Dolly Doctor
  • Video
  1. Home
  2. Entertainment

Netflix has reminded everyone that Ted Bundy isn't the only hot man in the world

Let's NOT be attracted to a serial killer, yeah? - by Arielle T
  • 30 Jan 2019
Netflix has reminded everyone that Ted Bundy isn't the only hot man in the world

It seems everywhere you look there’s a new story about Ted Bundy, arguably the most prolific serial killer in living memory. The renewed interest in Bundy stems from the Netflix docuseries Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the new film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile which sees Zac Efron attempt to shed his Disney image starring opposite Lily Collins.

The true crime series and movie trailer both debuted last week to mixed reviews. On one hand, there’s the issue that these depictions are romanticising someone who was convicted of raping and murdering over thirty women in the 1970s. Conversely, shouldn’t society be taught that not all monsters have fangs and skulk in dark alleys? Yes, Tend Bundy was good looking and charismatic but why can't we accept that he was also a vile human being? 

Netflix took to social media in an attempt to quieten the maelstrom:

Netflix US on Twitter

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes focuses on audio interviews with Ted himself, during which he describes in the third person what drove him to murder. Accounts from survivors, police and his ex-girlfriend Liz Kloepfer are interwoven throughout. Even amidst today's obsession with true crime podcasts and documentaries - there’s something about The Ted Bundy Tapes that truly un-nerves even the hardest of viewers. Leading the streaming service to jokingly advise "maybe don't watch it alone."

Coinciding with the release is, of course, the first look at Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile. Efron, whose performance has been dubbed a “triumph” told Variety:  “I feel a responsibility to make sure that this movie is not a celebration of Ted Bundy,”

“Or a glorification of him. But, definitely, a psychological study of who this person was. In that, there’s honesty.” Some reviewers take issue with Zac's boyish wink, looking straight into the camera. For others it was the upbeat rock music in the background, making some feel like they were watching a trailer for a rom-com.

In Ann Rule’s autobiographical book The Stranger Beside Me, she accounts her experience working with Bundy at a crisis hotline. Describing the dichotomy between the man who committed such atrocities and the unassuming co-worker she found to be “warm and loving.”

“Ted has been described as the perfect son, the perfect student, the Boy Scout grown to adulthood, a genius, as handsome as a movie idol, a bright light in the future of the Republican Party, a sensitive psychiatric social worker, a budding lawyer, a trusted friend, a young man for whom the future could surely hold only success,” Rule writes.

“He is all of these things, and none of them. Ted Bundy fits no pattern at all; you could not look at his record and say: ‘See, it was inevitable that he would turn out like this.’ In fact, it was incomprehensible.”

Perhaps that's the reason we're fascinated with Bundy, beyond the terror and evil, we'd like to find an explanation and figure out why he did these things. Yet, maybe it is just as Ann describes it, "incomprehensible" and that should be enough. 

This article was originally published on marie claire

Arielle T
Arielle T
Arielle is our Senior Digital Beauty & Lifestyle Editor. A few career highlights include; lunch with Kim Cattrall, interviewing Naomi Watts and swapping make-up tips with Margot Robbie on the red carpet. You can find her words on InStyle, marie claire and Women's Health.

Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35% -

Subscribe Now
Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35%

Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35% -

Subscribe Now
Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35%

Recommended to you

Sophie Monk drops another epic Love Island trailer
Watch 1:00

Sophie Monk drops another epic Love Island trailer

{headline}

{headline}

Ted Bundy's ex-girlfriend reveals the terrifying moment she was almost killed

Ted Bundy's ex-girlfriend reveals the terrifying moment she was almost killed

Zac Efron has broken his silence on the Ted Bundy backlash

Zac Efron has broken his silence on the Ted Bundy backlash

WATCH Zac Efron will give you nightmares in this new 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' trailer

WATCH Zac Efron will give you nightmares in this new 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' trailer

Viewers spot the creepiest connection between Ted Bundy and Joe from 'YOU'

Viewers spot the creepiest connection between Ted Bundy and Joe from 'YOU'

{headline}

{headline}

Venom fans and Ted Bundy supporters are fighting on Twitter over who's sexier

Venom fans and Ted Bundy supporters are fighting on Twitter over who's sexier

People are incredibly p*ssed off with Zac Efron's new Ted Bundy movie

People are incredibly p*ssed off with Zac Efron's new Ted Bundy movie

You won't recognise Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy in official new movie poster

You won't recognise Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy in official new movie poster

{headline}

{headline}

Zac Efron's 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile' is coming to Netflix!

Zac Efron's 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile' is coming to Netflix!

WATCH this new scene from 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' will give you CHILLS

WATCH this new scene from 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' will give you CHILLS

Ted Bundy documentary coming to Netflix this month

Ted Bundy documentary coming to Netflix this month

Here's everything coming to Netflix Australia in May

Here's everything coming to Netflix Australia in May

The Stranger Things scene that made Millie Bobby Brown vomit!

The Stranger Things scene that made Millie Bobby Brown vomit!

The Cabin in the Woods is finally coming to Netflix

The Cabin in the Woods is finally coming to Netflix

Ariana Grande won't be in that HUGE Netflix movie

Ariana Grande won't be in that HUGE Netflix movie

Girlfriend
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy

Brands

  • New Idea
  • Practical Parenting
  • That’s Life
  • Who

Our Network

  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • BHG Shop
  • marie claire
  • Beauty Crew
  • New Idea food
  • Home Beautiful
  • All Recipes
  • 7plus
  • 7News
  • Sunrise
  • Starts at 60
  • The West Australian
  • Perth Now
  • 7mate
  • 7Sport
  • Hard to Find
© 2022 Are Media PTY LTD
All products are independently selected, tested or recommended by our team of experts.If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Get more from Girlfriend

Magazine Subscription Offer

Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35% -

Shop This Offer
Subscribe to our sister mag and save up to 35%