Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

So add two more to the Bundy filmography — which began with Mark Harmon in “The Deliberate Stranger” in 1986 — both of which focus on those in law enforcement connected to the case: “No Man of God,” which stars Elijah Wood as FBI profiler Bill Hagmaier, opposite a chillingly effective Luke Kirby as Bundy; and “Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman,” with Chad Michael Murray as Bundy and Holland Roden as Kathleen McChesney, the young Seattle cop pursuing him.The films offer a stark contrast in how two movies, both relatively small in scale, can take similar material and go in wildly different directions — the first playing like a taut, provocative character study in the cat-and-mouse game between the killer and the low-key fed; and the latter representing cheap exploitation, which presents the killings in a lurid way that adds virtually nothing to the story.”No Man of God” resembles “Mindhunter,” a Netflix series from director David Fincher that fictionalized the work of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in the 1970s, who met with various serial killers seeking to gain a better grasp on what motivated them.