This is classic Hollywood cliche can be traced back to the real-life interviews conducted by Robert Ressler and John Douglas with 36 convicted serial killers, and which became fictionalised in TV series Mindhunter.ĭouglas even gets name checked in No Man of God. Get Scottish news that matters to you sent to your inbox with our newsletters.My difficulties with the film all relate to the idea that profiler Hagmaier, played by Wood, could become like Bundy – a consequence of his need to find a fellow human being in his interviews with the serial killer, as opposed to a monster. Kirby is also handsome but there is a genuine menace in his performance that surely better fits with what we know about the psychopathic Bundy. No Man of God, directed by Amber Sealey, joins a long list of films about Bundy – most of which have fed a fantasy that he was a charming, brilliant psychopath and a “boy next door” type – which has served to mythologise him and make serial killers more generally seem like aspirational figures.īundy has been played by charismatic actors such as Mark Harmon, Cary Elwes and most recently Zac Efron. Of course, the police from various US states were only too keen to get Bundy to admit to other murders and tell them where he had buried the bodies of his victims. His conversations with Hagmaier were part of what rather chillingly was dubbed a “bones for time scheme” whereby Bundy – just like Scheherazade weaving her stories, would talk about unsolved murders that he claimed that he had committed, as a way of keeping himself out of the electric chair. The likelihood is that the total numbers of his victims is even higher. The film stars Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby and is based on actual transcripts of conversations between Bundy – rather brilliantly played by Kirby – and FBI agent Bill Hagmaier between 19.īy this stage, Bundy was on death row in Florida and, after decades of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 19. Crime Scene: Wicklow Triangle and the ongoing quest to unlock its grisly secrets.
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I thought about my Vanity Fair interview because I have just watched a new movie on Prime Video about the American serial killer Ted Bundy called No Man of God. We’re also used to seeing FBI profilers “enter the mind” of the killer to work out why they did it and, in doing so, how they have to guard against becoming just like the murderer.Īnd then we tend to see how the serial killer is usually caught through the dogged determination of law enforcement.
These include how the serial killer is usually portrayed as an “ordinary” person who fits into his community, while all the time he is committing murder. We share live crime news and exclusive court stories as well as features and columns on historical cases, keeping our readers informed and updated across the country.
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