Synopsis
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Cast
- Zac EfronTed Bundy
- Lily CollinsLiz Kendall
- Kaya ScodelarioCarole Anne Boone
- John MalkovichEdward Cowart
- Jim ParsonsLarry Simpson
- Angela SarafyanJoanna
- Haley Joel OsmentJerry
- Grace Victoria CoxCarol Daronch
- Forba ShepherdLouise Bundy
- Grace BalboTeenage Molly
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
More sad than salacious, it’s the rare film about a criminal that offers human details without humanizing a man who so many agree was a monster. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s quite a story, which Berlinger moves along with unrelenting energy. - 70
Film Threat
At times, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is all about the performances because the movie itself struggles a bit with settling on a tone. - 70
TheWrap
“Extremely Wicked” winds up a thought-provoking piece of cinema that avoids the easy temptation of shock value in favor of a more philosophical take on a diabolical murderer. - 60
The Guardian
It’s a star vehicle that starts and ends with its star, the film around him struggling to justify its existence. Efron is wicked, the film less so. - 58
The A.V. Club
Dramatically speaking, it’s a failed thought experiment—you get, watching it, why no one has really told this kind of story in this way. But it’s still hard not to admire the film’s perversely un-perverse strategy, its good-faith attempt to do something more than simply trot out the awful, salacious details. - 58
The Film Stage
As an oddity of the serial killer genre, some of Berlinger’s choices ring more as engagingly strange than unsuccessful. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
If the narrative film only exists to give us the unsettling sliminess of Efron as Bundy, it won’t be a total waste. But it’s not much of a movie, either.
