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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

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Original title

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile aka

AKA

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

Year

2019

Running time

108 min.

Country

United States

Director

Joe Berlinger

Screenwriter

Michael Werwie (Book: Elizabeth Kendall)

Music

Marco Beltrami, Dennis Smith

Cinematography

Brandon Trost

Cast

Zac Efron, Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Angela Sarafyan, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, James Hetfield, Grace Victoria Cox, Kevin McClatchy, Carly Tamborski, William Cross, Jim Parsons, Haley Joel Osment, Terry Kinney, Dylan Baker, Sydney Vollmer, Morgan Pyle, Ken Strunk, Ryan Wesley Gilreath, Joe Berlinger, Brandon Trost, Tim Young, Chris Petty, Brian Geraghty, Michael Simkin, Caroline Hurwitz, James Harper, Grace Balbo, Ming Wang

Producer

COTA Films / Ninjas Runnin' Wild Productions / Voltage Pictures. Distributed by Netflix

Genre

Thriller. Drama | Crime. Serial Killers. 1970s

Synopsis / Plot

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.

Critics' reviews

"It’s quite a story, which Berlinger moves along with unrelenting energy. He also gets good marks across the board for his work with the actors"

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"An honestly unsettling and authentic inquiry into the question of who Ted Bundy was (...) [Efron] is startlingly good: controlled, magnetic, audacious, committed, and eerily right"

Owen Gleiberman: Variety
"It’s the rare film about a criminal that offers human details without humanizing a man who so many agree was a monster (...) [Efron] is able to bring his own take to the character"

Kate Erbland: IndieWire
"'Extremely Wicked,' rings hollow and false and is really just as interested in the sensational and salacious as any other reductive thriller"

Rodrigo Perez: The Playlist
"Efron is savagely convincing (...) 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."

Carlos Aguilar: The Wrap
"A very odd picture, one that purports to care about the women Bundy duped (...) while simultaneously marveling at their gullibility (...) Too unfocused and lacking in imagination"

Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times
"[It is] a curiosity even if it falters in what it intially sets out to accomplish."

Jordan Raup: The Film Stage
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