Zac Efron Ted Bundy trailer: VILE mass murderer had sex with corpses and kept the heads

ZAC EFRON plays real-life serial killer Ted Bundy in the new trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile. Charming and handsome, this serial killer confessed to over 30 victims but is suspected of more than 100 attacks. He also had sex with some of the corpses, collected the heads and may have killed a young child when he was just 14.

Hollywood heartthrob Efron may seem an odd choice to play one of the most notorious and reviled killers in US history. However, Bundy had legions of female fans who protested his innocence and managed to deceive the apparent mother of his child, Carol Anne Boone (who he married while cross-examining her in court) almost until the very end. One of the lawyers of his last defence team called him: "the very definition of heartless evil." The full extent of his horrifying story is more shocking than any fiction.

The trailer arrived today while Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is currently streaming on Netflix.

The new film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile shows how terrifyingly charming, attractive and charismatic Bundy was. Even after he became a prime suspect, even after he escaped from jail twice, women still fell for his act and mourned his death in the electric chair on January 24, 1989, at Florida State Prison. 

Yet, this is a man who finally confessed to killing over thirty women between 1974 and 1978, on the night before his execution. He also boasted that the total was far higher with some investigators suspecting he had over 100 victims, starting with the disappearance of eight-year-old Anne Marie Burr when Bundy was just 14.

Reverend Fred Lawrence administered Bundy's last rites and said afterwards: "I don't think even he knew ... how many he killed, or why he killed them."

Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy

Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy (Image: PH)

Serial killer Ted Bundy in court

Serial killer Ted Bundy in court (Image: PH )

Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in new movie

Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in new movie (Image: PH )

In 1987 Bundy confided to detective Robert Keppel that there were "some murders" that he would "never talk about", because they were committed "too close to home", "too close to family", or involved "victims who were very young."

Authors Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth interviewed him on Death Row and their book, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, catalogues some the deeply disturbing rituals.

Bundy returned repeatedly to some of the dead bodies where he had left them, grooming and performing sexual acts on the corpses. When the bodies were eventually discovered, some were wearing clothes they had not owned while alive or their nails had been painted a shade they never used. 

Bundy photographed many of the corpses and explained: "When you work hard to do something right, you don't want to forget it." He also decapitated at least 12 victims, keeping some of the heads at his apartment.

Biographer Ann Rule described Bundy as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after."

Rule revealed that numerous women contacted her after Bundy's execution, depressed and grieving the death of a man they have been corresponding with in prison, convinced he loved them and unable to accept that he had committed any crimes. 

Bundy was widely reported to be charming and was suspected of suffering from bipolar disorder and then antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). He confessed he drank heavily to suppress the dominant personality which would have stopped his inner "entity" carrying out the attacks.

He started law school, and although he later dropped out, he frequently represented himself during his trials and interfered with his defence team's strategies and instructions. He also made two extraordinary successful escapes, once from prison and once from a courthouse and committed further assaults and murders even when he was on the run.