True Crime Film ‘Ted K’ Explores The Life & Mind Of The Unabomber (Trailer)

February 14, 2022

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

Kelli Marchman McNeely is the owner of HorrorFuel.com. She is an Executive Producer of "13 Slays Till Christmas" which is out on Digital and DVD and now streaming on Tubi. She has several other films in the works. Kelli is an animal lover and a true horror addict since the age of 9 when she saw Friday the 13th. Email: horrorfuelinfo@gmail.com

 

From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K– a cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who took the lives of three people and injured twenty-three others with a series of bombs.

 

Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As the outside world encroached on his mountain sanctuary, he slowly became radicalized with rage. What began with small acts of sabotage, culminated with deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history. Actor Sharlto Copley brings a dark intensity and unnerving intimacy to this chilling real-life portrait of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist.

 

TED K is a film about the American soul: dark, criminal, and fantastic. D.H. Lawrence said, “the essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer.” One man fits that description perfectly: UNABOMBER Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated hermetic madman of Montana, a Thoreau with nail bombs. Though TED K is a film “about” him, it is less a traditional pic, and more an impressionistic action fantasy, personalizing the everyday existence of a”madman.”Ted Kaczynski may ultimately be forever unknowable, but how did you hope to present him? TED K presents the intellectual primitive, the purposeful well-educated rustic who is radicalized by the ever-encroaching presence of the hyper-modern age into his seclusion. If Kaczynski is Thoreau, then this is Walden in the glow of Hiroshima. Whereas Thoreau found peace in a simple return to the land and the day-to-day activities of sustaining oneself, the intrusions he faced were of the steam age, when the world was still lit by whale oil. With Kaczynski, returning to the land for tranquility had become impossible. In your opinion what was the source of Kaczynski’s gradual unraveling and tragic plot? There are hardly any places left in the world where the sound of a jet or the whine of a motor does not intrude. The relentless drone of industry and the creeping tentacles of technology are inescapable. Kaczynski was tormented by this, and over time, this torment became the grounds for his murderous revenge on the wider world. He crafted a well-reasoned critique of the destructiveness of the modern, technological world and sought to make it known that the whole increasingly complex technological system cannot sustain itself without collapsing into a violent maelstrom. Society is insane, numb, and suicidal, yet no one seems to notice. His cold inner nature allowed no sympathy for his victims. His was a cruel conviction. Based on your research, what do you feel was essentially misunderstood about Kaczynski?

 

TED K is an imaginative investigation of Kaczynski. Much of the narrative is based on his diaries and accounts from his neighbors. He was not the stereotypical recluse. He had cordial and friendly interactions with people while leading a double life. He was a good and industrious worker, qualities that impressed the people who hired him as an unskilled hand.”

 

Explore the mind of a madman with Ted K, opening in theaters and premieres on Digital on February 18, 2022.

 

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