Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile: Ted Bundy surviving victim 'doesn't have a problem' with Zac Efron film
Kathy Kleiner Rubin is one of the survivors of Bundy's attack at Florida State University's Chi Omega house in 1978
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Your support makes all the difference.One of Ted Bundy‘s surviving victims has shared her thoughts about Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, the movie starring Zac Efron as the serial murderer.
Kathy Kleiner Rubin is one of the two survivors of the attack conducted by Bundy in 1978 at the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house.
That night, Bundy murdered sorority sisters Margaret Elizabeth Bowman and Lisa Levy, and attacked Karen Chandler as well as Kleiner.
Kleiner told TMZ she “doesn’t have a problem” with people watching Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile – the trailer of which came out on Friday – “as long as they understand that what they’re watching wasn’t a normal person”.
She believes it’s important to show Bundy exactly in the light he was perceived at the time of his crimes.
“I think the movie does glorify him more than I think he should be but I think everyone should see it and understand him as what he was even when he was the perfect son,” Kleiner added.
She hopes the film will prompt women to be “cautious” and listen to their guts if “something doesn’t feel right” about someone.
Kleiner told Rolling Stone she plans to see the full movie when it comes out, adding: “Hopefully they’ll have one of the Kardashians play me.”
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile premiered on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, shortly after the release of the four-part Netflix documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy tapes.
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Critics so far have praised Efron’s performance while remaining divided about the movie’s portrayal of Bundy.
The AV Club's AA Dowd wrote: “[Director Joe] Berlinger may think he’s taking the non-sensationalised approach by refusing to depict Bundy’s shocking murders. But by only showing us his public face, the tap-dancing charm that made him a media sensation (augmented here by yet another loaded jukebox of sub-Scorsese needle drops), Extremely Wicked risks minimizing his evil.”
It has been 30 years since Bundy was executed at the age of 42. At the time of his death, he had confessed to killing 30 women and girls across seven states, though the actual death toll might be higher.
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