Scribbles from a curious mind!

In the span of four months, Netflix has  released  back to back features based upon the life of one of America’s most prolific serial killers: Ted Bundy. This focus has unsurprisingly caused some ‘good Samaritans’ to believe that someone in charge at Netflix also happens to be a secret Ted Bundy groupie.  The 110-minute long feature titled  Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile  is a very accurate title for Bundy’s bio, if you ask me. The movie is based upon the memoirs of Bundy’s former girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (played by Lily Collins), and as the story is told from her perspective, it is more about how Bundy got away with so much for so long rather than the typical formula of simply selling the sheer brutality of his crimes. continue reading on: https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/82481/zac-efron-does-justice-to-the-sadistic-monster-that-was-ted-bundy/

Human brains are hot wired to feel emotions for others, a quality that came in real handy for the survival of our species hence individuals who lack this human trait are always a subject of our morbid fascination. Case in point “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” a 4 part documentary series on Netflix; that provides “A unique look” inside the mind of the infamous American serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy or Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was an “all American boy” who grew up in an average white American family and was on his way to become a lawyer with a pretty good nag for politics as well but somewhere down the line something snapped inside Bundy’s brains and in a span of just 4 years he killed more than 2 dozen women over 7 states. Just Like a ‘spider tailed viper’ Bundy would lure unsuspecting prey in and when the timing was just about right Bundy attacked with such ferocity that blurred the lines between humanity and animality. Ted Bundy was arrested in 1975; fol...