The Deliberate Stranger (TV Mini Series 1986) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Bundy discusses intimacy and his past sex life with his girlfriend at a point in the film.

Violence & Gore

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There are various scenes throughout the movie that include characters participating in casual and social drinking.
  • A few instances and references to smoking cigarettes occur throughout the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film focuses on notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy. Despite the film being fairly tame due to the made-to-television status and era that it was made in, the overall tone and subject material is still dark and disturbing.

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The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • Descriptions of the discoveries of the remains of several of Bundy's victims occur throughout the film. Though these descriptions remain either vague or use clinical terminology, they still may be disturbing to some viewers.
  • Though the film showcases the lead up the many of Bundy's crimes, only his murders at Florida State University are depicted in detail. In this scene, Bundy seen breaking into a boarding house and attacking multiple women who live within in it. Though the scene does not show the attacks graphically, they do focus on Bundy's face throughout as well as the bloodied weapon that he uses.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • During a court interrogation scene, Bundy tells a falsified story about smoking marijuana.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are several scenes involving the discovery of skeletal remains of the victims of Bundy.
  • Multiple scenes show Bundy either stalking his victims before their murders. The tone of these scenes is are very tense.
  • A woman narrowly escapes being kidnapped by Bundy midway through the film. A struggle with Bundy is seen, including his attempts to confine her in his car. Both this particular scene and the aftermath, in which she is in a hysterical state, may be distressing to some viewers.
  • Bundy is seen stalking his last known victim, a young teenage girl, from his car as she is out at recess at school. It is later revealed that she has gone missing and, then, in the epilogue that her remains were found at a later point. This scene and reveal may be distressing to some viewers.

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