If you watch this film and think it'll give you a good idea of the real events that this film is based on than you're going to be sadly misinformed. Crap crap crap of a film. Watch a documentary on the dude if you want a crazy story that is actually true. Really interesting serial killer. Once again terrible movie all around. The real guy hung out at a pub that was frequented with cops. He wasn't close friends with any of them and NONE of them NOT ONE had any idea that he was doing these crimes. He called and turned himself in from another state. He wasn't even a suspect. So even just watching the trailer to this movie I was like WTH?! I was extremely disappointed. Look up the real case and you'll have a good time with it. Dude was wicked and you think that someone would make a film worthy of that madness. Insane he was... Well save yourself the time and DO NOT watch this movie!

First of all, Ed Kemper was 6'9" tall - the actor playing him was short and way too old for the role. Kemper trolled college campuses for his victims and would not have been able to get to as many young women if he were in his 40's as he was portrayed.Kemper was extremely intelligent and likable, but this merely portrays him as a one-note freak. Which he was not.Dialogue terrible, and cell phones and computers in the 1970's! Who was the production designer? Glad I didn't pay to see this one. I wish a really fine movie would be made about this brilliant killer - too bad he wasn't able to use his smarts for the good of the world.Even Kemper (he is still alive in prison) would roll with laughter at the way he's portrayed here.Boring boring boring and pathetic piece of tripe.

I saw KEMPER THE COED KILLER on Showtime the other night. I found it to be a good "true-crime" drama.Yes, the acting could have been better... For example, I kept seeing an aged Dustin Hoffman as Kemper; and, a corny Steven Weber as detective Harris. What a hoot that would have been! Even with the look-alike actors, I think KEMPER THE COED KILLER was fine for what it was. I think the acting was right on, the character development, though thin, was sufficient. The back-story filled in many of the missing pieces; and, the plot moved at a good pace.I don't know how accurate it is as to the facts, as I never research Ed Kemper, like I did Ed Geins. However, the plot points about the over-bearing, invalid mother are too similar to that story, to assume that the "real" story was anything like the movie. I doubt that it was.Still, Ed Kemper was a strange killer. He helps the police, he kills co-eds; and, hitchhikers, he kills his mother... those are not typical plot points in serial killer movies. I like that it was set in a contemporary time period, instead of a more historically-accurate time. It makes you wonder, "could this happen today?"

Only for the most desperate true-crime buff, this TV movie-quality dramatization is about serial killer Ed Kemper and one certain cop's bond with him and his pursuit of him. Lame acting, worse dialogue (written by a former soft-core porn screenwriter), plot holes aplenty, and lackadaisical direction and editing. Many scenes are wide angle master-shots with no real framing, as the actors just meander on screen and recite their lines of dialogue. The plot is not very fact based considering it claims to be inspired by true events, it deviates from the facts of the case almost from square one. It seems like the screenwriters were not even familiar with the case when they wrote the screenplay. An interesting movie could have been made out of the story, but they did just about everything wrong here. And I did not know that people had laptop computers and cell phones with text messaging and photos in the 1970s?