The WORST Director is Back | Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman Explained 

DANIEL IT'S TIME TO STOP DANIEL THIS IS ABSURD DANIEL

The Manson murders meant a lot to him... Because he was born the same year?? Literally, my grandma exclaimed "WHAT!?" when she overheard you say that. This is what she exclaimed following it: "Is that guy for real? Try being 9 months pregnant with your first born when you hear about that horrific event, living less than 50 miles away from where it happened! Your oldest uncle, raikun, was born a week after Sharon Tate was murdered! Do you know how scary it is to be 20 years old, with a husband working night shifts, your first baby on the way, and almost due, and you hear about someone being killed when she was also pregnant? People started locking their doors after that; especially me! And you don't see *ME* making a movie about it!"

Can't wait for him to do "Jack the Ripper: Brittish Boogeyman".

I just don't understand why this guy uses real-life tragedies as bases for his movies when: a) they clearly don't fit his vision if he changes so many things in the story b) the effect of the changes usually ranges from strange to outright offensive

"This man is my Nemesis and he doesn't even know I exist." Made me laugh so hard but I know the feeling! These films are crazy disrespectful and you had every right to pop off.

Thank you Amanda for pointing out that Ted WASN'T a criminal genius. HE WAS LUCKY.

This guy is like every movie reviewers arch nemesis. He was the first guy Chris Stickman gave an F to in the first 30 seconds of a video.

This is the Cinematic equivalent of Michael Jordan refusing to leave baseball but on a much longer time line. How you have the patience, Amanda of the Jedi Order, is beyond me.

Can they stop giving this man money! He's like the worst of the true crime community, just ruining the memories of the victims and their families!

"Mom, I want The Silence of the Lambs!" "We have The Silence of the Lambs at home" *The Silence of the Lambs at home:*

I know the word "offensive" gets people laughed at these days, but I feel like it must be used to appropriately encapsulate what's wrong with Farrands' last 3 films. This is a filmmaker who goes beyond the realm of "poor taste" and breaches the truly offensive. You can have gratuitous violence in your movie, but when you have gratuitous violence *and* a scene with a real-life figure telling her therapist "I do miss the sex" when talking about how OJ would beat her, *and* present a conspiracy theory as fact in order to make OJ look better, it is clear you don't view the people involved in this true story as people; you view them as convenient objects for your exploitation movie. The entire premise of Haunting of Sharon Tate, her having premonitions of the murders, exists solely so the movie can have a higher body count. If there was no supernatural slant, they wouldn't be able the show the murders until the end, meaning the screenplay would have to focus on personal relationships or character development that Farrands doesn't have the talent to handle. He just wanted to make a slasher movie and knew nobody would care unless he attached it to a famous crime.

I want to understand how he gets actual actors for this movies; Hilary duff; Mina Suvari Chad Michael Murray??? I know they aren’t exactly A listers but they are recognizable and have successful films out there! And this are embarrassing

“American Boogiewoman” sounds like the title to a failed disco song! So, thank you for demystifying Ted Bundy. As someone who is interested in true crime and actually studied true crime (masters degrees in forensic psychology), Bundy does get a “superhero”-like reputation among the well-known serial killers. He was a monster and does not need to be glorified at all.

"american boogeyman" sounds so sinister while "american boogeywoman" sounds like aileen wuornos is just out here groovin' to the bee gees on a light up dancefloor

This. Lighting. 👏

As a woman of color: can we STOP glorifying the actions of serial killers? Like, much of the "smart" or "genius" behavior attributed to serial killers comes down to color and class of the killer and the victims. If your victims are queer, an ethnic or racial minority, women, sex workers, or homeless people, congrats, you're a genius for pick the VERY people police and society doesn't really care about. He literally just hung around, pretended to injured, lured some women in (a big note, not all women fell for it and that pissed him off) at night to his car, and then would leave, assault them, and play with their corpses. Gross. Also, the romantic way people portray male serial killers is 100% sexist. He wasn't suave or charming, he raped and murder girls for fun. "He was charming and handsome and thoughtful" and a crazy killer who took pleasure in hurting people because he could. The way male serial killers get justified is just exhausting to hear and worse to have it glorified. He was a white guy who used social pressure to slaughter women and he got away with it because cops are notoriously incompetent and think highly of white guys. Like, it boggles the mind how "smart" he was when really he was lucky everyone around him was dumb and arrogant. Could be emotional intelligence, to know that the police are idiots, lawyers are cocky, and no one believes those they deem below them, sure. But it doesn't take a genius to read his wikipedia and go "so everyone was just blind and ignorant and he could have been stopped many times if people would pay attention to the victims and those around him going, that's him officer." Oh, he was a master of disguise? No, he was generic. He was just a white guy who practiced faces in the mirror. Oh, he never left evidence at the crimes scenes? Bruh, the police ignored an exact tip to who he was, what he drove, and how he looked AND he'd use his vehicle to bury the bodies in the woods or parks around his area. That's not meticulous planning, that's understanding how "if I move the evidence, there's no evidence." He once planned his escape, was noticed and reported, and the police did nothing... Infuriating how many woman who brutalized and killed because a white guy got lucky. Disgusting.

Out of curiosity, I decided to look up how successful his previous 2 films were, as there had to be a reason this guy kept getting gigs, and it turns out that neither even grossed 20k, so now I’m convinced that they are some sort of money laundering scheme.

He coulda made a movie warped to make it into “if Ted Bundy got caught earlier” twist and pulled a Tarantino on the actual events that took place and THAT would have been a much better movie.

The fact that Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman and Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman (both directed by Farrands) came out in the same year is astonishingly awful

In case you were actually curious - Those cups were a fairly popular thing in the late 70's - early 80's. The cup was flimsy, so they clicked into those handles. Not a bad idea, really. The worst thing I remember about them is the sloped sides. You couldn't move them without spilling. You had to walk around like you were carrying nitroglycerine. Now, back to this FANTASTIC video critique.

I have a weird connection to the Ted Bundy story, (not this movie, but the real one.) In high school I used to go to some events with my partner from the school newspaper. She got excitable about everything, panicking at the smallest event. When a football was passed in her general direction at a game, she screamed and dove for cover. She always drove, and you can imagine what someone like her was like on the rode. I was always grabbing onto the "oh god" strap as I was swung around the passenger seat of her Volkswagon Beetle. Well, those of you who know the Bundy story might know where this is going. One day I was in the newspaper room at the school, and we all heard her screaming from two stories down. She ran all the way up the stairs and into the room, crying and shouting, "I have Ted Bundy's car!" She had had car trouble and had looked in the user's manual. There on the front page was Ted Bundy's signature. She had it checked out and sure enough, she had wound up with his Volkswagon Beetle when she bought it used.

Say what you want about Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, & Vile, at least THAT movie had a point to make. Its message was that sometimes the most dangerous people aren’t the creepers in the corners, they’re the people that you know who seem perfectly normal, and they might even be the people closest to you. This movie’s message seems to be: serial killer cool.

I'm just sick of revisiting this horrible man's life. Let's just stop glorifying serial killers in general

This movie is like Ted Bundy's fanbase (yes, he has a fanbase), but taken to horrifying, fanfiction-ish extremes.

Oh no not this guy, literally the most disrespectful director 😬

My dad worked at FSP (Florida state prison) at the times Ted Bundy and Aileen Wuornos were on death row. He said she was genuinely mean and crazy. While Bundy was so arrogant and a idiot. Awful people. It's pretty terrible of this director to just pump out these ridiculous movies at the expense of the victims. What a POS . Filmmakers like this should be called out .Im with you, how the hell is he making these films, who is giving him money? And also why are these somewhat known actors doing this horrible man's movies🤷🤦 money be damned. You said it ALL here, thanks for calling it like it is always.

Amanda popping off about inept police work and how stupid Ted was is the exact energy I need in 2022

Still waiting on “The Ghosts of Sandy Hook”, Dan! There are still deeper levels of hell you could sink to!

"this man is my nemesis and he has no idea I exist" 😂 😂

If you want to watch a work that *actually* prioritizes the women involved in the Ted Bundy story, there's a great docuseries on prime where his long-time girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, and her daughter are interviewed and it gives very insightful information about the feminist movement during that era and what victims and families had to face so totally recommend

Okay but all the disrespect aside- does this guy have a thing for women getting murdered? Like, does he ever make movies about anything other than women getting brutalized?

I thought the reason that Bundy was basically made out to be this attractive man was because the police were entirely incompetent… so like glorifying him this much is completely counter to what Daniel is saying he’s doing. He doesn’t care about the victims. And other people in the comments are also saying that Daniel seems to just be playing out his own fantasy so that’s… something.

Can we stop allowing this guy near real life murders? Please? Maybe get a creative restraining order or something?

Without fail, this man's movies answer the question you asked yourself last week. "Hey, whatever happened to [insert actor from movie you loved years ago]?" And always with a sigh and a disappointed, "Oh..."

I LOVE that you keep calling Bundy a loser. Keep it up-change the narrative about him.

Ah yes, Distasteful Movie 3: Serial Killer Boogaloo is finally here!

I think Carol DaRonch said he came at her with a crowbar and gun? It was an incredibly dramatic fight for her life. There's no need to for the director to add anything to it, and yet Farrand seems to have done so.

I think Daniel makes his movies solely for Amanda to watch as part of a giant conspiracy to make her loose her mind

I really hope when Spider-Man goes to cinema in America and Canada that Amanda reviews it cause she makes it really exciting

It'd be actually really interesting to make a movie about the woman who helped take down Bundy and not even show Bundy in the movie hopefully made by a female director and writer

It makes me question the "big name" actors who agree be in these, like, were Hilary Duff, Mena Suvari, and Chad really that hard up for work that they willingly participated in these morally bankrupt movies.

I had no idea who this director was, but I saw the title and went “aw shit is this the Sharon Tate guy”

“And that is not a compliment” This movie deserves no compliments tbh

I understand using real life crimes and tragedies as a basis for fictional stories but this film maker throws together weird conspiracy theories, unnecessary supernatural elements, and low-end lifetime original movie film style. This isn't the way to do it.

This is Amanda's origin story for her hunting down this Daniel person and making a true crime movie with him as the subject. She will setup shots and go into detail why he has failed as a director and how to properly direct. Except then there will be a take a that end, which she filmed before everything saying all this was fake and no one was harmed. But he's been missing for 6 months. We know. We all know. And no one will care. Yep that was my dark mind coming up with a random story that will never happen in this reality but it happens in another reality and I'm just channeling that image.

Is this confirmation that the director wanted to make a Ted Bundy power fantasy cause he likes the real person?

I like that you regularly shoutout Zodiac. I'm not really into the true crime genre (or even fake murder stuff) but I watched that movie with my mom and sister over Christmas and we all really enjoyed it. It really put the focus on the madness created in the people trying to catch the Zodiac killer, not romanticizing the madness of the killer himself. True crime often struggles with the balance between humanizing/honoring the victims and dramatizing the horror of their deaths. Zodiac kind of side stepped the whole mine field by not spending as much time on the actual murders (save a few scenes). For anyone who hasn't seen it, I recommend!

"He's not an enigma, he's just a fucking loser who should have been caught long before he actually was!" THANK YOU! I've been a true crime fan for years, and the way some people fawn over Bundy disgusts and often confuses me.

Amanda's beanie game is top notch! I must know where she gets her hats from...

“Keep an eye out for this mysterious unidentified man who’s in a full ski mask! In *Florida!*” made me snort.

The only saving grace in all of this is that Ted Bundy is already dead Because, y'know, he would have loved this movie

I'm here for the Bundy was an incompetent loser rant. I think that gets ignored too often

There’s two types of true crime fans. One, those who respect the victims and their families, learning about the history of the killers (and how stupid the cops are), and even mocking the killers, because they deserve it. The other kind is what Daniel is.

Daniel Farrands: *exists* Amanda: "And I took that personally"

I like how rarely they show Chad Michael Murray's face because he looks absolutely nothing like Ted Bundy lol

Could be worse. He could have named it, “Ted Bundy: Superstar.”

The coffee cup - they were plastic holders that the vending cup was put into, which were used up to the late eighties (I’m showing my age..!)

Literally no one: Amanda: Tortures herself with godawful movies for the sake of our entertainment.

"American Boogeywoman" sounds like a lost Earth, Wind, and Fire track.

Never thought I'd see both of my teenage icons Hilary Duff & Chad Michael Murray again in these kinds of awful films, but I guess here we are. Daniel Farrands sure must have been a fan of them as well back in the mid '00s.

I'm calling it, 15 years from now there's going to be a number of bodies found in this "filmmaker's" backyard.

Amanda to actor: "You are to good good for any of this." Actor to Amanda: "Tell that to Hollywood. In the meantime, I need to pay for stuff..."

So after seeing him disappearing from the door: Michael Myers = The Boogeyman (Halloween) = The Shape (Dead By Daylight) = Enigma = Mike Myers = Master of Disguise

“We didn’t want to humanise bundy, so we made him a boogeyman with super powers” IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HUMANISE HIM.

As for the coffee cup, I can explain. When coffee is too hot for you to hold the plastic cups, you can use that so you don't have to clean an actual mug and won't burn your hand.

So... I'm sleepy... I did jump when you shouted "Daniel! what were you thinking?!" Because just as you were, I was contemplating more coffee instead of bed.

Just another example as to how good the Netflix movie “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” with Zac Efron really is…just goes to show how wrongly this can be done! This “director” (using that term loosely b/ what the hell kind of direction is this!) should be ashamed and stop while he is way way behind…I’m absolutely appalled at the lack of respect given to these victims of such gruesome killings. Thanks for warning me on this one! HULU has been shoving it in my face for a couple weeks now.

Can't wait for part, two! Boogeywoman: Electric Boogaloo!

I am firmly convinced that this director wants to BE these people. He’s creepy af.

This guy is like a violent murder fan fic. Like, you know he's got some Dexter posters in his room...

My grandpa was taken in and interviewed for the Bundy murders. My great grandpa owned land near where he dumped bodies and my grandpa looked sort of like him. My great aunt was actually approached by Bundy, but she had an appointment and so didn't go with him, but said she would've otherwise.

I didn’t know who this was, but as soon as I saw Ted Bundy in the title, I was all, “oh, this has to be that idiot who made those terrible Sharon Tate and Nicole Brown Simpson movies.”

"Do words mean the same thing to you as they do to everyone else? " I don't know why but that's my favorite sentense.

I applaud Amanda for making it through the whole movie. I couldn't.

gotta give him credit, he has balls to make a movie about Aileen Wuornos when the perfect movie (Monster) already exists

This man is a Tumblr fanfiction author, whose first and most meta-cringey self-insert character is *himself* as a legitimate director of film with any historical merit whatsoever. Also, subscribed! You've got great presentation, diction, and camera presence, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your palpably genuine intrigue with these subjects. Keep up the quality work, neighbor!

6:00 Omg that's Lydia from Teen Wolf. Holland Roden, girl, you can do better than this😭 Lydia Martin would be disappointed

Please make a video for Love Hard (2021) !! It's a very unique take on a classic trope & the movie is very genuine and heartfelt.

Was that Holland roden? Oh no, this is definitely a step down from teen wolf.

Only a Jedi can survive a bizarre experience like this movie, respect👍🏾

I saw the title and I literally gasped I can't believe he did it again

I've never actually watched any of his movies, I just watch your reviews and realized I would be in to my emotional pain if I watched them myself.

Aww, Daniel Farrands, what do you expect from a guy who got his start by Dimension (Miramax) buying his Halloween Fan fiction script and making it into Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. The official beginning of the end for Halloween sequels. Granted he wrote it when he was a teenager but he clearly never improved. 🤷🏻

I'm loving the pink and yellow lit background. Great aestetic.

Okay, if you want to watch something good about Ted Bundy, there are two documentaries and one movie called "No Man of God". One documentary is on Netflix and the other is on Amazon. The one on Amazon is more about the women in his life, whether it was his girlfriend or the police women investigating him, and even is youngest brother was interviewed. As well as survivors and victim's families. Luke Kirby is phenomenal and scary as Bundy. He's scary for several reasons. One, he looks like him, especially in certain angles. Two, the behaviors and mannerisms are nailed. Three, Luke Kirby reminds us that Bundy was human, as much as people don't like to admit it, he was a human being who did horrible monstrous things he killed because he wanted to and he liked it. The movie didn't glorify him

I almost feel like Bundy might've been the director's self-insert character in this movie...

I was born the year Halley's comet passed Earth. I should direct a biopic about Mark Twain 🤣

I’m sorry, Holland Roden as well?! Sweetie, you also are way too good for this film!!

He's basically trying more Halloween films rather than using original script and characters but he exploits these horrible crimes and victims. Ted Bundy is Michael Myers in this movie for no reason whatsoever. It's gross.

I love how outraged she sounds when she calls "Danielllll!" 🤣

I will say this, Bundy did use the expectation (at the time) of women always willing to help someone and/or being polite to someone in order to lure his victims. He would act like he was injured or just needed help and they would help him.

The woman that you said was the mum from something, I realised that I remember as the teacher from Cinderella story.. that also had chad Michael Murray. How is he convincing all These early 2000s actors to jump on board with his movies? 😅

At 16:00 the failed strangling happened Amanda. That women later came to testify against him. I think she was the only woman who actually escaped because he was doing BS of strangling women until they were unconscious and then bringing them and then repeating. She had escaped when he thought she was sleeping and managed to get back to her place. I don't think it happened the way they showed in the movie, but it did happen.

a message from paddington: kindness is kool but so is safety so dont put urself in dangerous and uncomfortable situations because you need to be polite to urself transcendental wisdom from a bear

This man has a whole folder of snuff films and serial killer videos... I'm convinced of this at this point

Amanda the Jedi, saving us from bad movies at the expense of her own time and sanity

Amanda, you realize, of course, you MUST review the Peyton List as Aileen Wunros movie. You can't tease us like this and not go for it!

Because you so often cover relatively frivolous material, I have a tendency to forget your specific academic credentials while never discounting your aptitude. But it's nice to see you bring all that education to bear in describing how dumb this is. He should have hired you as a consultant.

15:54 "Herbie the Death Bug: The Story of Ted Bundy" It wasn't Ted, it was the evil spirit of the VW Bug the whole time

Can’t he just make, you know, normal horror movies