"I think every home should have one of you": the serial killer disguised as the perfect husband
- Dr Wendy Haslem (Universtiy of Melbourne)
Ted as reworking of Bluebeard by Perrault (1697)
Cooking equivalent to Bluebeard's wealth
The uncanny - those who are not who they appear to be; the dead reincarnate
Ted and Bluebeard:
- lack of backstory and context
- unpredictable and violent
- serial killers
- one small room as a shrine for the dead
- compulsive desire to woo and destroy.
An annotated retelling of the Bluebeard tale can be found at SurLaLune Fairy Tales.