Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

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    Cath ClarkeGuardian
    Honestly, there is no earthly reason for the existence of this film; it might work for the Bundyphiles but it leaves a nasty taste in the mouth for everyone else.
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    Brian LowryCNN.com
    American Boogeyman might be dreck, but the title gets one thing right: This boogeyman isn't going away as long as there's a buck to be made off the name.
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    Joe LipsettMurder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting
    Murray is out of his depth in this period-inaccurate film with a slippery approach to real life events. The misogyny is overdone, but the climactic sorority house attack is appropriately harrowing.
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    John SerbaDecider
    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman aims for chilling and lands on boring, and fails mightily to justify its existence.
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    Brian CostelloCommon Sense Media
    It's not a bad movie from a technical standpoint. But it doesn't really contribute anything new to a story told too many times about a sociopath who doesn't deserve so much of 'the Hollywood treatment,' or any of it, really.
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    Brian OrndorfBlu-ray.com
    Not only doesn't understand the definition of "boogeyman," but reaches a new low of tastelessness, transforming Bundy's barbaric ways with female victims into bottom-shelf schlock
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    Stephanie ArcherFilm Inquiry
    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman does little to add to the cinematic legacy of both Ted Bundy and the subsequent investigation into his murders.
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    Kelly VanceEast Bay Express
    Belongs to the "changed and fictionalized" school of true-crime click-baits... Leave this one alone.
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    Natasha AlvarCultured Vultures
    Do we really need another Ted Bundy film, especially one that has nothing insightful to say? No. So why then does Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman exist?
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    Carla HayCulture Mix
    The only thing you will learn is that this movie will surely hold the title of the worst movie ever made about Ted Bundy. This isn't just like watching a train wreck. It's like watching a nuclear bomb of extremely bad taste and putrid filmmaking.
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