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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #32. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Published on January 25, 2019

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

With Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Jeffrey Donovan, Angela Sarafyan, Brian Geraghty, Dylan Baker and Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, Joe Berlinger has amassed quite the ensemble for his bonafide hyped up return to narrative form. While some of docu features have been critically acclaimed, most portions of his filmography managed to stare evil in the eye and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile will be no different. Production began in January one year ago to this date.

Gist: Told through the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer (Collins), Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, who went years denying the accusations against Bundy but ultimately turned him in to the police. Only nearing his execution, when Bundy began talking about his extensive and heinous murders, did Kloepfer, and the rest of the world, learn the true scope of his numerous and grisly crimes.

Release Date/Prediction: Selected for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section, this is having its world premiere tomorrow at the Eccles theatre – this will have buyers lined up around the tent corner.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).