Brandon Routh, Cherilyn Hayres, Laura Prepon
Based on the true story of husband-and-wife Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the Ontario-based couple who tortured, raped, and murdered two schoolgirls, as well as Karla's younger sister, in the 1990s...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007
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July 13, 2008This movie is disturbing in its every extend. It's violent, graphic and at the end you're not sure whether you watched something that has a hidden social meaning or a bad splatter.
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May 2, 2008actually really interesting, if the script was a bit sharper i would have gone 4 maybe 4.5 stars
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March 16, 2008To me, any accomplice to murder is just as guilty as the person committing it. That's why I am so repulsed by this movie, because it portrays Karla Homolka as a tragic heroine, a victim. Anyone who knows how tragic and sensitive this case was knows that Karla is no victim. The...( read more)
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November 13, 2007horrible...just.....horrible....i found myself laughing at innapropriate times....and it was just......horrible
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April 18, 2007Although interesting and quite informative of the actual case, the film is told through Karla's point of view. Not such a great idea for a script as she constantly, as does the film, paints her out to be a victim. Often more so than the actual victims. The acting is good and very...( read more)
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November 1, 2009This movie is raw, powerful and will make you sick to your stomach. The story is well presented and the cast, more notably Misha Collins, were amazingly twisted yet realistic in their portrayals. This movie is not for the light hearted and is sure not to sit right with some peopl...( read more)
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September 25, 2009I often wonder why real-life horrors are made into films. Obviously, they are watched. Is it the aroused curiosity from all the media hoopla we derive from these cases? Does it give serial killers, etc., an undeserved celebrity status? They do have their fans, including those...( read more)
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August 9, 2009This film was literally unwatchable. There is less than a handful of films that I have rated that I have not watched in their entirety and this is one of them. I usually give them the benefit of a watch but this didn't deserve it.
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July 30, 2009Komolka is too portrayed as a victim in this movie. Although the movie is from her perspective.
Laura Pepron looks weird great dyed blonde with a 80s hairdo. But which nonaustralian actress would be. She also has a too markant face in my opinion.
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July 18, 2009Not a bad treatment of the case as told in court records. I have been following it since I was a kid, and everything I remember reading indicated that in reality, she was the instigator, and not a victim, but the movie at least hints at this in the end.
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December 1, 2007I guess I'll give this 3 stars -- though it's not a "good" movie -- in fact, even given the already-disturbing subject matter, something about this is quite sick. There seems to be a kind of relish with which the director portrays, painfully and in detail, the sadistic acts of the movie's 2 main characters. The "heroine," Karla, portrays herself as a victim to her megalomaniacal husband, the bona fide sexist (to say the least), sadist, murderist, and rapist Paul Barnardo, a cigarette smuggler from Canada. To hear her tell it, he just kind of went around doing vile, heinous acts, and she just sort of followed him, whimpering and cowering in terror, picking up his pieces, and video taping it all, afraid for her life, a victim of domestic abuse. I don't buy that. I mean, I buy that he beat her; but I don't buy that she was quite as passive and helpless and as she presents. She killed her own sister to fulfill her husband's (and her own?) sexual fantasy. And tapes it.
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