Stephen Colbert has had it with Netflix’s hot serial killer trend

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The entertainment industry is really going all out to sex up Ted Bundy, between Netflix’s documentary series on the serial killer and the upcoming Zac Efron-starring Bundy film, and Stephen Colbert has had enough of it. 

Responding to viewer tweets that discussed Bundy’s hotness, Colbert deadpanned, he was smokin’ because they gave him the electric chair for murdering people.” And the host even shared a Netflix tweet that shared the same sentiment. 

But then Colbert kicked it up a notch with a trailer for his new true crime series, Dialogue with a Demon: The Dick Nighttime Murders. Experts regale the camera with talk of serial killer Richard “Dick” Nighttime’s abs, biceps, and his beautiful blue eyes. Read more…

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Netflix begs viewers to please stop thirsting after Ted Bundy

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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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Zac Efron as Ted Bundy is here in shudder-inducing biopic trailer

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“Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!” Well, unless you get offered the juicy role of one of America’s most infamous murderers—then all bets are off. 

High School Musical, Baywatch, and Greatest Showman alum Zac Efron is shedding his handsome boy-next-door-ness to tackle the role of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy for a chilling new biopic. The results are confusing, upsetting, horrifying, and (broadly speaking) super not okay.

The first trailer for the project, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile—a direct quote from one of Bundy’s numerous guilty verdicts—reveals the shudder-inducing tone of the film, told from the perspective of Bundy’s lovestruck girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins.) At the time of his state-administered execution in 1989, Bundy was believed to be responsible for upwards of 30 deaths. Read more…

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Netflix’s ‘Ted Bundy Tapes’ makes you sit with the man behind the monster

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Modern celebrity serial killer culture arguably started with Ted Bundy, a man known for his normcore good looks, charisma, and brutal rape and murder of at least thirty women in the 70s.

In the new four-part Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, true-crime aficionados get to hear excerpts from never-before-released interviews with Bundy while he was on death row. 

Ted Bundy is known as the mild-mannered guy you could easily find yourself enjoying a beer with — before realizing he’s describing the location of his victims’ decapitated bodies. In the upcoming Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile film, the notorious murderer will be played by none other than Zac Effron. That’s not playing against type, either, since Effron easily fits Bundy’s persona as the nice guy with an aw schucks kind of handsomeness.  Read more…

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Zac Efron tweets the first, creepy image of himself as serial killer Ted Bundy

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If someone were to mention Zac Efron’s name, the first thing to pop into your head would likely be that cheerful, singing chap from the High School Musical films.

You know, this guy:

Or maybe you’d think of him from his slightly more recent Baywatch days:

Either way, the creepy image of an infamous serial killer would probably be the last thing to come to mind.

For his next filming project, though, Efron is moving into brand new territory:

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