30 years after his state-administered execution, serial killer Ted Bundy is getting a lot of 2019 airtime — and some seriously concerning audience reactions have Netflix stepping in.
Last Thursday, on the anniversary of Bundy’s death, the streaming giant released director Joe Berlinger’s four-part docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, to a captive and eager audience. Two days later, Berlinger’s Bundy biopic starring Zac Efron, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, premiered to a divided audience at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The combined publicity of Berlinger’s two projects quickly elevated Bundy’s status from archived atrocity to trending topic on social media. Then, things started to get really out of hand. Read more…
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