Imagine that you are the family members of one of the daughters who were raped, murdered, and dismembered by one of the most monstrous human beings imaginable.

Now imagine watching the trailer for the new film "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" and seeing the way that Ted Bundy is being portrayed. If you haven't watched it, you can view it here. The film is set to view at Sundance this coming week, and after the release of the trailer, many are concerned that the film will romanticize the serial killer and skim over the severity of his crimes. This leads to many, myself included, concerned over what the repercussions of this film will be.

Zac Efron, who plays Bundy, has stated in an interview that his intention was not to glorify the infamous criminal and his heinous crimes but to rather dive deeper into his character. He states:

"I feel a responsibility to make sure that this movie is not a celebration of Ted Bundy. Or a glorification of him. But definitely a psychological study of who this person was. In that, there's honesty"

You can read the rest of the article here. The film is meant to portray Bundy's charismatic side, the side that the media tended to be most obsessed with and to show that Bundy did not fit the description of a typical killer. According to Efron, this film will dive into his psyche and perhaps give an explanation as to why he did what he did. However, the trailer was edited in a way that tells us otherwise.

The trailer looks like an action movie, and if the film didn't explicitly state it, I would not have guessed that it would be a biopic of Bundy. With its upbeat and punk-rock music, Efron looks and acts like an archetype of Han Solo, and with this, we forget that this film is supposed to be a nonfiction drama that is portraying one of the evilest and most despicable human beings who walked the earth.

Many will say that the point of the film is to show that during the '70s Bundy was charming and romanticized in the media, and that's why the trailer looks the way it does. But that's not the problem. This trailer makes Bundy seem like a movie-star attractive, quirky guy and focuses on his relationship with Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins), thus making it seem like a romantic-comedy mixed with an action film. In the trailer, he seems like a guy who just gets into a little bit of mischief here and there.

And that's not what Bundy was. Take a look at that trailer and tell if you at any point remembered that:

• In Netflix's "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes", Bundy states that "When you find the person that committed these crimes you think I committed, that person is going to be wanted for murders of women in the three digits and six states", thus leading to believe that he killed more women than the 30 that he confessed to, with that number possibly being in the hundreds.

• Bundy confessed to drowning and raping 12-year-old Lynette Dawn Culver before disposing of her body and was also found guilty for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.

• Bundy broke into FSU's Chi Omega sorority house where he bludgeoned Margaret Bowman with a piece of oak firewood as she slept, and then beat Lisa Levy unconscious, nearly bit her nipple off, and bit so deeply into her left buttock that he left imprints of his teeth on her, then sexually assaulted her with a hair mist bottle.

• He kidnapped and sodomized 17-year-old Melissa Smith, daughter of the police chief of Midvale, where he painted her nails, applied makeup, and washed her hair postmortem.

• After kidnapping Janice Ott and Denise Naslund in broad daylight, Bundy told Stephen Michaud that he forced one to watch as he murdered the other.

•Bundy admitted to decapitating his victims and keeping their heads as mementos and admitted to necrophilia.

A film that reenacts what a serial killer did is dangerous. I understand the film romanticizes Bundy because he was romanticized back in the day, but we must realize that that is a dangerous move because it can lead many to believe that this type of behavior is appropriate and its why the behavior that Bundy exhibited will continue to happen in the present day. Making films like this is going to reinforce to men and women out there that if you commit a number of horrific sex crimes, you may just have a movie made about you. We all know that people like Bundy still exist today, what's going to happen now when they see someone like Efron on screen doing the things that they want to do or are currently doing?

I could be completely wrong, and the movie may take a different approach. And I'm hoping that's the case, especially because Joe Berlinger directed both this film and the documentary series on Netflix. In the meantime however, I'm very cautious about what this movie will entail and I just wish that more consideration went into the editing of the trailer.