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  read more... ).

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R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Joel Bender

Release Date: January 20, 2006

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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007

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  • July 13, 2008
    This 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.
  • May 2, 2008
    actually really interesting, if the script was a bit sharper i would have gone 4 maybe 4.5 stars
  • March 16, 2008
    To 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)re is no reason that a movie should be made of it, especially not one like this.
  • November 13, 2007
    horrible...just.....horrible....i found myself laughing at innapropriate times....and it was just......horrible
  • April 18, 2007
    Although 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) believable, but the whole film is overshadowed by a certain cheapness of direct to TV quality. A different angle and a more two sided debate would have improved the film, but as it is it is an average true life serial killer picture.
  • November 1, 2009
    This 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)e, so be warned.
  • September 25, 2009
    I 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) who go far enough to even marry them. There is alot of of people angered and upset by this movie being made, and it definitely was disturbing to watch. Although this movie was based on Karla's interpretation of the events that occured, I thought they did a decent job of showing her coldness and detachment and lack of remorse. Although the acting was a little over-the-top, it is not to far-fetched to believe that it accurately portrays Paul and Karla. I suppose if anything can be learned from this movie, just as in the Ted Bundy movie, is to be aware that evil can come in pretty packages.
  • August 9, 2009
    This 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.

    It was crazy disturbing. I know, you're think...( read more)ing, "What did you expect?" Well, i've watchecd many films with disturbing content that I got through just fine and some of them were even good. It seemed to me that the whole point of Karla was to disturb and disgust you just for the sake of doing so. I foolishly had thought that it was going to give you a glimpse into the mind of this mentally ill criminal. Instead she just serves as a narrator, relating a series of events emotionlessly.
  • July 30, 2009
    Komolka 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.

    btw I didnt know bernardo was...( read more) a whigger. But he is hope the Aryan Brotherhood knows about that.
  • July 18, 2009
    Not 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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  • oliverrs
    December 1, 2007
    I 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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