His daughter Kerri struggled with the devastating realization that her father was a horrific killer, expressing how her childhood was ordinary and that they were a 'normal American family.' The Clovehitch Killer earned acclaim upon its release, with Paste Magazine declaring it 'a devilish movie that does beautifully what horror films are meant to-vex us with fear-through the most deceptively simple of means.' The film draws direct parallels to Radner's story, as he was also a family man, a member of the church council and even a Cub Scout Leader he was convicted of killing 10 people between 19 before being arrested in 2005. Dylan McDermott is phenomenal as Don Burnside, the devout Christian patriarch who harbors a gruesome, secret identity in which he stalked and strangled 10 females a decade earlier before going dormant. Inspired by the life and crimes of Dennis Rader, the Kansas serial killer who deemed himself BTK (for 'bind, torture, kill'), the coming-of-age thriller The Clovehitch Killerfocuses on a 16-year-old boy who makes the chilling realization that his seemingly picture-perfect family may not be all it seems when he suspects his father is a violent killer. Efron owns the role, despite the backlash that the film seems to glamorize the real-life serial killer. The 'shockingly evil' subject matter is based on the book The Phantom Prince My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall. Along with Efron, the film also stars Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Jeffrey Donovan, Dylan Baker, Terry Kinney, and Haley Joel Osment.

Zac Efron's mental health was reportedly put to the test for the gripping, controversial Netflix effort that chronicles the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years. At the same time, Liz struggles to come to terms with the truth. Adamant that he is innocent, Ted Bundy (Zac Efron) defends himself in America's first nationally televised trial.

Her whole world is turned upside-down when he's put on trial for a series of grisly murders. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vilefollow Liz Kendall (Lily Collins), a single mother who believes she has found the man of her dreams.

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