Angel of Decay

A bit into this I realized it's based on the true story of Ted Bundy. It doesn't say that anywhere on the description.

I noticed after a few scenes that it's dubbed as well, so a pretty good voiceover job. I have no idea where this was filmed or in what language originally & there isn't much info online, but I saw this on Amazon Prime.

If you're into true crime, you may appreciate this. The acting was ok, the story is a creepy enough story to always be interesting.

Even allowing for the constraints of time, there is so much wrong with this dramatisation of the man who put the serial in killer. The abduction of Carol DaRonch is shown only as an attempted abduction. In reality, Bundy kidnapped her, handcuffed her, and was driving her off to certain doom when she fought like a tigress, freed herself, and fled to the safety of another motorist. Lead actor Ryan Gage looks nothing like Bundy, and although he comes over as plausibly creepy, Ted was not at all like that. Worst of all though, Bundy is portrayed as a tortured soul, especially in the dream sequence. In reality, he was a total psychopath and sociopath, the only person he ever cared about was himself, and he would no more be haunted by the ghosts of his victims than he would that of a swatted fly.

There are of course many ways to approach a project of this nature. Sadly, this is not one of them. In both documentary and biopic, Ted Bundy has been done before and better. More than once.

Ted Bundy was a very good looking man who looked the part of a clean cut American college student. He was very manipulative and charismatic. In short, absolutely NOT even close to what they had in mind when casting the role. The actor certainly doesn't look the part, acts nervous and twitchy in most of his scenes and I can not see Bundy's victims being charmed amd maniputed by a weasely Ted Bundy. That casting kept me removed from the movie, couldn't get into it.

I'm not sure the producers of this movie have ever seen a photo of Ted Bundy. The actor looks like Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters in a Charles Manson wig. Bundy was "successful" because he was handsome and charming and women liked him. This character is greasy and weird and unbelievable as a homicidal charmer who could draw women to him. Overall it's not bad but there are countless better portrayals.

One, the actor doesn't remotely resemble Ted Bundy.

The story is totally given away.

If this was just to be a recount of what Ted Bundy did you will be better off reading the wikki on him or watch the documentary.

How did this get funding?

Seriously!

How does this have a 6+ rating.