. >> this new film in which zac efron plays ted bundy. ♪ >> ted could be classy when he needed to. >>he ladies loved him. >> it was almost theatrical. >> how do you vanish? >> there was almost a taunting quality, like catch me if you can. >> what do you got there, bob?

. >> zac efron plays ted bundy, and we are taking his teen heartthrob image and turning it on its head. >> tonight we take you inside the story of a man who terrorized a nation, revealing new details and interviews. >> i never wanted to think people were born evil, but my opinion about that changed when i met ted. i think he was just born evil. >> when you look at ted bundy he was about the right age to be in college. he drove a volkswagen beetle. very, very popular car in the '70s. so, when he would move into a college campus, he just fit right in. that was disarming to his victims, like, he should be here. he looks like one of us. he drives one of our cars. >> he graduated in june of '72 from the university of washington, with a degree in psychology. >> why does he get a degree in psychology? from my view, he does that because he wants to continue to manipulate people. >> linda heely was a very popular young woman, because she was on the radio f d week. at 7:00 in the morning. she gave the ski report. i was one of many who listened to her in the morning, and i realized the day that s

. >> zac efron makes a transformation as the serial killer, ted bundy as the extremely wicked, shockinglyal. >> we made a decision, we didn't want him to mimic bundy, we wanted zach to take his own approach to portraying bundy. it looks extremely authentic and zach does a great job of portraying him. >> ladies and gentlemen, i am innocent. >> reporter: looking at bundy known as being handsome and charming before his brutal crimes were revealed through the eyes of his long-time girlfriend, played by lily collins. >> i feel like we're on top of the world. >> during this whole period from 1974 to 1978 was the period of most of his killings. >> he had this need for normalcy. he compartmentalized his life. he actually lived with a woman who thought he was prince charming. he was a wonderful boyfriend and by all accounts, a wonderful surrogate father to the daughter of elizabeth. >> you don't actually believe this garbage, do you? >> it's in all the papers, ted. >> we want to think serial killers are easy to identify and then we can avoid them. the truth is the opposite, particularly with bundy

zac efron plays ted bundy.ance. >> at the center of the ted bundy story is the idea that you could have sat next to him, that you could have been in a relationship with him, and yet, had no idea of what he was up to. >> there was the outside bundy and then there was the inside bundy. that's a whole different world right behind his eyes. >> i think the continuing fascination with mr. bundy results from a myth that he is this charming, intelligent individual and that somehow that charm and intelligence was involved in the murder of these women, when in fact, he didn't charm these women that he killed. he attacked them. he tricked them. he bashed them in their head and he killed them. >> being a rare survivor of ted bundy, it makes me feel like i have to represent those women who did not survive. and i hope that i always can do that, because i don't want them forgotten. >> i feel absolutely no animosity towards any other person i ever sent to death row. i still hate ted bundy and i will hate him until the day i di