Review – The Stranger Beside Me

I’m a little surprised that a movie based on Ann Rule’s book about Ted Bundy – and with Rule’s name all over it as well – would turn out to be so hard to follow. To be sure, all Bundy’s murders and escapes from custody make his criminal career a bit hard to track. But we literally had to haul out the Wikipedia entry to keep straight who he had and hadn’t killed at any given point in this movie. In the filmmakers’ defense, they only had a short amount of time to tell a complex story. And for a straight-to-video production, this is a reasonably good portrait of a woman’s slow realization that a man in her life is actually a brutal monster. Mildly amusing