It'd be interesting to watch Matthew Bright's Ted Bundy along with "The Deliberate Stranger" starring Mark Harmon. Bright's film, of course, explores the dark, ugly side that TDS just couldn't because of national television. That means, more often than not, we see Ted Bundy in Bright's film almost always creepy and psychopathic. I think that's where Harmon scored and Michael Reilly Burke couldn't..we see Bundy in ways many others did, while Burke's Ted is always stalking and destroying. It's not exactly a pleasant film, by any imagination, but neither was Bundy's "extra curricular activities." We see the psycho-sexual stuff, his "pick-up" methods, and how he bludgeoned girls up side the noggins. Bright, maybe to the dismay of those who crave such explicit stuff, sometimes pulls back, not really elaborating in detail all of Bundy's sick, warped treatment of those he raped and murdered..I actually prefer this, because we're dealing with a real-life murderer, not an altogether fictitious one. It's hard to watch such a film as this as something entertaining, or to enjoy..it's a way for Bright to explore the darker side of man, using a subject we are familiar with. Burke is quite impressive in his scenes when he portrays Ted as a cold-blooded, and fiendish, maniac, who gets visceral thrills sexually molesting dead women, or assaulting future victims. Sometimes, Bright employs the "less is more" approach, subtly implying what is transpiring(..such as the awful, awful attack on a girl, using little more than scattered clothes in a pasture leading to an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere). It's inevitable that you'll have your anal retentive "historians" trying to detect flaws in the time line, little anachronisms that may not coincide with the period for which Bundy's exploits occurred. I was more interested in how Bright and Burke would portray the man, how far they'd be willing to go. I think they cover enough ground, and we see him in action. I love the scene, though, where Tiffany Shepis, as a potential victim, finds her way free from Bundy, quite a resilient young woman who wasn't about to be taken prisoner without a fight. Tom Savini has a cameo as a detective questioning Bundy. Lee(Boti Bliss), Bundy's frequent lover and possible future wife, and her unusual relationship with Ted is dealt on in depth;this is where we see Bundy slowly morphing sexually into the perverse beast he'd soon become. I think Bright was wise to shoot a lot of the movie when Bundy is on the road or around places where you can not easily detect errors in the period covered. Probably the hardest moments to watch are when he bashes girls over the head(..although, Bright often only shows Bundy swinging hard upon the victims who are off screen, which perhaps is also a more effective method instead of gratuitously exploiting the damage in detail).