I am so torn about how to rate this film (and I'm being generous by calling it a film). It was bad. It was really, really bad. It was so bad I was laughing, yet I couldn't look away from the dumpster fire unfolding on the TV screen.I watch a lot of ID Discovery and like to think of myself as something of a connoisseur of murder smut. 'Bazaar Bizarre' makes the writers at ID Discovery look like the Coen brothers. 'Bazaar Bizarre' has a sampling of every horror imaginable - unnecessarily extended scenes of full-frontal male nudity, interludes featuring a dive-bar-southern-rock-band that only performs narrative songs about murder and cannibalism, disjointed commentary from those involved (and some not even remotely involved) in the court proceedings, flashbacks showcasing severed body parts/props that look hilariously fake, and so much more. I seriously want someone to make a documentary about this documentary. It was *that* awful/amazing. How this gem failed to receive the Palm D'Or and an Oscar is baffling.

Not too shabby for a documentary distributed by Troma, but it would have been MUCH better without the annoying inserts of a blues band singing songs about Bob Berdella and his deeds. This documentary is both about him and WITH him. He's pretty unrepentant, and feels personally that it shouldn't have taken the 5-0 so damn long to find him - he did, after all have naked hippies wearing dog-collars stumbling naked out of his place, messed-up on Drain-o. He was just feeding people human flesh a la his chili at his flea-market stand and selling human-bone jewelry to school-kids. Ya know, the day-to-day routine.With his display of human-skulls for basketball-fans ("the final four...") was considered a bit over-the-top by more conservative members of the area, but all-in-all he was just a FABULOUS serial-killer, trying to live life the only way he knew how.

Normally I enjoy documentaries about serial killers but this one I cannot in all honesty call a documentary, but a travesty of a documentary, for it approaches its subject in a manner more appropriate to a high school student trying to go the easy way getting his grades.You will not find any consistent notifications of interviewee's identifications during the progression of the show but only random reminders when, it seems, the makers of this "documentary" deem that it is appropriate - or I may be completely wrong - when they had any chance of inserting information pertaining to their subject.All in all, this is still very much worth watching if you appreciate the baffling mind frame of the serial killer. *** out of *****

Movies on serial killers are sometimes so over dramatized that it leaves viewers like me disappointed. They loosely base movies on actual killers using well known actors and then blow the facts out of proportion, changing them or even leaving facts out entirely; raising these killers to an almost "hero cult" status, just to get the dramatic effect they are looking for. This takes away the reality of what they actually did. I found Ben Meade's "Bazaar Bizarre" to be a very innovative, to the point, even funny film about the sick and twisted life of Robert Berdella. The way it was presented, with a combination of James Ellroy's narration, documentary and dramatization style snaps you into the reality that serial killers DO exist. Many lives are lost every year to these kinds of sick cold-blooded killers. This is definitely a must see film for the true crime buff. I loved it!