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Nightmare Fuel / Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

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  • Ted Bundy. While most of the horrible things he does happen offscreen, this actually heightens how frightening he is rather than diminishing it. For example, the scenes where he's acting like a loving Friend to All Children to Liz's daughter become absolutely terrifying once we later learn that one of his victims was a 12-year-old girl. note 
  • One other example is how Ted explains how he killed one of his victims. Without even saying a word, he breathes on the glass window and writes on it, "hacksaw", followed by a quick montage that cuts in between him writing the word and him knocking out his would be victim and putting her in the car, all while the sound of the hacksaw cutting and the sound of a splatter are in the background.
  • The super 8 footage scene, you expect it to cut halfway and show the gruesome bodies at any moment.

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