I have often found that serial killer movies, with perhaps the GIMP viewer in mind, often start off with a damsel in distress. "Ted Bundy" begins with the protagonist (Michael Reilly Burke) making weird faces and monkey noises in front of his mirror. Not a good sign.

This movie, directed by Matthew Bright, is obviously about the notorious real-life killer of more than 30 women. The movie's body count is also fairly high, but each attack leaves much to be desired from a GIMP point of view.

Ted's a student but seems to spend most of his time driving around in his yellow VW Beetle, rubbing his crotch and checking out babes on campus. He's also a shoplifter who wears a dorky bow-tie and cheap suit.

In the first incident, Ted whacks off in an alley while watching a woman undress. After a neighbor dumps water on Ted, the angry villain clubs a woman on a sidewalk and steals her purse. Then he visits his girlfriend Lee (Boti Ann Bliss) in a scene apparently thrown in to make him appear somewhat normal.

During consensual love-making with Lee (with nudity), Ted wants to take her from behind. But she's appalled and only wants to do it "regular." Ted obliges but chokes her and thrusts violently because "that's what love feels like to me!" She pushes him off, gasps for breath and apologizes to him. Lee is obviously not the sharpest knife in Ted's drawer.

Ted picks a lock and enters the bedroom of sleeping woman. He knocks her out, handcuffs one wrist to the bedframe above her head, and then punches her repeatedly with the impact not shown. Pointless violence. Pointless scene for GIMPers.

Our killer later follows a blonde in a tie-dye shirt into her bedroom where she immediately falls asleep. (Maybe she was watching this movie.) He handgags her, knocks her unconscious and carries her body to his car. We then jump to yet another scene with Ted and his girlfriend.

Ted does the old broken-arm-in-a-cast ploy and gets a brunette to help him carry his books to his car. He knocks her out with a crowbar and then ... nothing.

We quickly switch to a scene with Ted and Lee at a party, followed by him carrying a woman in shirt and panties into the woods, with her wrists handcuffed in front. He announces that he's in power, blah blah blah, and strangles her with rope. Yawn.

As female students disappear seemingly every night, Lee finds handcuffs in Ted's car. What follows is what I found unintentionally hilarious dialogue:

Lee: What the hell are these? (holds up handcuffs)

Ted: I dunno. Never seen them before. (walks away)

Ted talks the obviously gullible Lee into some bondage sex. Her wrists and ankles are tied with stockings to the bedframe above her so her legs are spread wide. As Ted thrusts away, Lee looks bored. Ted gives her orders to pretend she's dead. "Fuck! You! Bitch!" Now why doesn't he do this to unwilling participants?

Ted, doing the broken arm trick again, gets a bikini-clad blonde at a beach to help him with his sailboat. Believing that a guy in a beat-up old Volkswagen owns a sailboat, she climbs in the car. The trick works again on a second woman.

In a cabin in the woods, the first woman is standing handcuffed to pipes and covered in blood. The second woman escapes and we have a slow-motion chase through the woods. Ted smacks her with the crowbar, returns to cabin and rapes and beats her in front of bleeding blonde. He then crushes the rape victim's head with a large rock (not shown) and kills the blonde offscreen.

I guess that scene could be considered the best in the movie. But the rape lasts only a few seconds, there's no nudity, and the victims are all bloody.

Ted's now off to Salt Lake City, and we get glimpses of his victims on his way, some naked, some decomposed, hints of necrophilia, etc.

After a bungled abduction where the woman pretty much kicks the shit out of Ted as he tries to handcuff her, our "hero" kills a cute cheerleader in parking lot with crowbar and strangles a woman in a hallway. *Yawn*

Ted gets arrested, escapes while the guard has a smoke, gets caught again in an unexplained scene, and escapes again.

In Florida, Ted breaks into a sorority house and bludgeons four women *yawn* while they're sleeping. He also kidnaps a girl and rapes her offscreen.

After he gets caught again, we finally get some bondage and forced penetration. Unfortunately, it's Ted being strapped to the electric chair and the guards shoving cotton balls up his ass to prevent him from shitting himself.

I'm really not sure what the director was striving at in this movie. I didn't find the film shocking, disturbing or scary in any way. I thought the acting was rather poor, and the dialogue inane at times.

Perhaps the intention was to underscore the dangers of being gullible or naive, much like this reviewer checking out this movie a second time to see if there was anything GIMP-worthy in it.

I give this movie and the GIMP scenes a D+

The sex scenes can be found here.