Ted Bundy is having a little renaissance at the moment.
Earlier this month, Netflix premiered a chilling four-part docu-series called The Ted Bundy Tapes about the notorious serial killer who confessed to murdering over 30 people across seven states between 1974 and 1978.
Meanwhile, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a new biopic about Bundy starring Zac Efron that premiered at Sundance this year.
After the trailer for the biopic dropped last Friday, people immediately began thirsting over how incredibly hot Efron looked playing the serial killer, who many agreed was also quite attractive.
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if I was alive in the 60’s and ted bundy looked like zac efron I would 100% be a dead motherfucker
— bex (@BexKell) January 26, 2019
If ted bundy was gay he would of managed to kill twice as many
— El gitano (@oanfleeek) January 30, 2019
Zac Efron’s playing Ted Bundy and now I want to shag a serial killer. Cheers. Nice one. Kids crying.
— Steph Bannister (@ScouseBirdBlogs) January 26, 2019
literally why the fuck was Ted Bundy so hot lol
— Liv Hutchman (@oliviahutchman) January 27, 2019
If Ted Bundy really looked like Zac Efron I would have been one of the first ones killed
— Kate Cochran (@katecochrannn) January 27, 2019
Things got so out of hand that Netflix felt compelled to issue a response asking people to please thirsting over the mass murdering necrophiliac.
I've seen a lot of talk about Ted Bundy’s alleged hotness and would like to gently remind everyone that there are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on the service — almost all of whom are not convicted serial murderers
— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019
Unfortunately, this did little to quell the panting masses.
But he’s hot though
— Vaas Montenegro (@vaas_is_nutz) January 28, 2019
I mean technically he’s not convicted so…
— daph ? (@phonography) January 28, 2019
i mean what’s annoying is that Ted Bundy WAS considered extremely attractive and it was his sex appeal that scored him more victims and favors – so i don’t see the big deal i guess.
— ??!? (@SkyWilliams) January 29, 2019
You’re literally tweeting to a generation that had vampires sexualized to them. Who’s really surprised here?
— Steven James (@WhadHeSay85) January 28, 2019
He can be hot and also terrible. Not that I think it’s a fun discussion point.
— Melanie Manning (@eyelinrgrl) January 28, 2019
What do you think? Is being sexually attracted to a man who murdered 30+ people and then had sex with their corpses inappropriate? Sound off in the comments section below…
WaitUrTurn88
Am i the only one who thought he was average at best….now zach efron thats a different story.
Scout
Yes, I agree. I watched the four episode doc. on Netflix last week, and, although he was not UNattractive, I certainly would not call him “hot” or “shaggable.”
radiooutmike
I just watched the first episode of the Netflix Bundy show. It was very compelling.
I don’t think he was terribly attractive (read: average cute), but he had to have incredible charm and confidence to get these girls to go with him. It’s not like he was picking prostitutes up and killing them. That certainly would have garnered less sensationality. His victims were usually students or young professionals like secretaries or nurses. Appropriate women who knew how to conduct themselves. It helped that they were white.
I don’t see how you could research him for a mere 5-10 minutes without thinking of him only as a monster.
batesmotel
Average cute? That’s because gays tend to prefer exaggerated good looks where the person looks like a hot muscular model otherwise they’re just average cute. When most people don’t look like models. Ted Bundy was highly attractive and had a great personality. He was charming. All of that is what made it easy for him to enrapture women. His looks were considered especially hot in the 70’s. He wouldn’t look exactly like that if he were born today. He’d probably look like Zac Efron.
Rock-N-RollHS
Again, can’t folks separate fantasy from reality. Lot’s of awful people are very very hot. Nothing like a hot serial killer or Nazi guard fantasy (my preference) to take some of us over the edge.
Political correct censorship should be defied at all costs. I’ll generously do my part until I die.
Curtispsf
And you may die sooner than you wish if you start hooking up with Nazi “guards”. Nothing like a little “Final Solution” to put things in perspective.
Blackceo
Its only one type of folk I see thinking Ted Bundy is attractive because they are the ones who drive Eurocentric standards of beauty. To me, he was basic and had no lips. But because he had somewhat of a jawline and was White, panties are getting wet. If that’s all it takes, then go off lol.
Luna1979
I can’t believe you made the possible hotness of a serial killer a racist issue, like there wasn’t enough wrong with the topic as it was. He was apparently handsome and charming enough to get victims, and now fans, jaw line notwithstanding.
Elf92
He was attractive. Come on now. True, he had thin lips. And don’t forget a unibrow. lol. Its all about angles. Some pictures made him look hard in the face, but others made him look as debonair. He still was considered attractive for his time period. Even though he was highly delusional, he exuded a sort of confidence that both women and gay men would fall for. The fact is he was attractive for a white person of his era, and in some circles would still be considered a suitable mate (on the surface of course) today. Among coons and conscious black gays alike. Lets not play. You might have given him at least a second glance if he had passed you by on the street or in a club. Again angles matter.
Calin
@Radiooutmike, there was nothing charming about this egotistical maniac, he would stalk women or break into their homes and kill them. He viciously kill women and a 12 year old girl, he was evil. pure evil. Some of your comments are sick.
Scout
It’s significant to remember that Bundy did not ask these girls out for dates, nor were they seduced by his good looks. True, he was charming and well-spoken, but his M.O. was to dress as a cop and tell them their car was broken into and would they go with him to the station to identify the perpetrator, or his arm was in a cast and he needed help carrying his surf board to his VW from the beach. He also simply sneaked into their dorms and apt. buildings and beat them over the head while asleep.
His degree of attractiveness was secondary to these women whom he met.
jhead94
Netlfix doth protest too much?
A pillar of the entertainment industry has always been an actor’s looks.
It shouldn’t be a surprise then that the audience responds to it.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I’m watching the documentary right now, whats really good about it is hearing him psycho analyze himself, its extremely chilling.