Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
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Directed by	Joe Berlinger
Screenplay by	Michael Werwie
Based on	The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall
Produced by	Michael Costigan Nicolas Chartier Joe Berlinger Ara Keshishian Michael Simkin
Starring	Zac Efron Lily Collins Kaya Scodelario Haley Joel Osment Jim Parsons John Malkovich James Hetfield
Cinematography	Brandon Trost
Edited by	Josh Schaeffer
Music by	Marco Beltrami Dennis Smith
Production companies	COTA Films Voltage Pictures Third Eye Motion Picture Company
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	January 26, 2019 (2019-01-26) (Sundance) May 3, 2019 (2019-05-03) (United States)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$9.8 million[1]

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a 2019 American biographical crime drama film about the life of serial killer Ted Bundy.^[2] Directed by Joe Berlinger with a screenplay from Michael Werwie, the film is based on Bundy's former girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall's memoir, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy. The film stars Zac Efron as Bundy, Lily Collins as Kendall, Kaya Scodelario as Bundy's wife Carole Ann Boone, and John Malkovich as Edward Cowart, the presiding judge at Bundy's trial. The title of the film is a reference to Cowart's remarks on Bundy's murders while sentencing him to death.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019, and was released in the United States on May 3, 2019, by Netflix. The film received mixed reviews from critics, though Efron's performance was praised.