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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: Monterey Video
Salesrank: 19796
Released: April 3, 2007 |
| Our Price: $14.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Winter: 1990. The most notorious serial killers in the history of Canada begin their psychological dance with death and depravity as an entire country is held captive in fear. In stunningly acclaimed performances Laura Prepon ("That 70's Show" "Slackers" "Come Early Morning") and Misha Collins (TV's "24" "NCSI") breath perverse life into their real life counterparts Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka dubbed by an anxious press the Ken and Barbie killers". As the gruesome events unfold and lovely young girls disappear the utter lack of remorse from Paul coupled with his quirky charisma paint a delusional world of normalcy for Karla. Police frantically search for and eventually put an end to the couple's horrific killing spree and their trial captivates the entire nation setting off waves of controversy surrounding the brutal killings. In the end this gripping tension-packed film will haunt you forever left to ponder the psyches of two individuals in a tragically demented relationship because it's true. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: R UPC: 012233268324 Manufacturer No: 326832
Karla Reviews:
Excellent Portrayal of Two Sick People Who Find Each Other 
2008-08-10 - The story could have been presented without the pointless plot device of "telling her story all over again" to a prison psychiatrist. Subtract two stars for that. The main reason to see this film is the surprisingly good performance by Laura Prepon. I can see her career being an effective mix of comedy and disconcerting serious roles (a pattern of film choices similar to Robin Williams').
I just didn't like it 
2008-06-06 - It followed the true story mostly but if Paul had not used the F word so much he would not had any lines. All he did was rape, kill & beat up Karla. not a intertaining movie. could have been done a lot better, way too much cursing.
SICK 
2008-01-09 - THIS IS THE TRUE LIFE STORY OF THE SERIAL KILLER DUO PAUL BERNARDO AND KARLA HOMOLKA BERNARDO. THIS IS A SICK TWISTED DISTURBING MOVIE THAT CAPTURES THE TRUE EVIL OF THIS COUPLE.
KARLA LOVED PAUL SO MUCH THAT SHE KILLED HER OWN BABY SISTER AND THREE OTHER WOMEN. SHE LOVED HIM SO MUCH SHE WOULD ALLOW HIM TO TORTURE, TORMENT AND RAPE AND BEAT HER AND THE VICTIMS. SHE LIVED IN HELL AND YET ALLOWED IT.
THIS MOVIE IS VERY DEEP, DARK AND REALLY DISGUSTING. IT IS A TRUE LIFE FILM THAT HAUNTS YOU AS YOU WATCH KNOWING THIS STUFF HAPPENED. THIS IS A MOVIE THAT SHOULD BE WATCHED FOR THE FACT THAT THIS STUFF REALLY HAPPENS AND NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AND LOOKED UPON AND NOT HIDDEN SO THAT JUST MAYBE WE CAN STOP AND HELP THE NEXT VICTIMS.
THIS IS A VERY WELL ACTED MOVIE. THE DIRECTION IS GOOD. THE IMAGES OF MURDER AND TORMENT FILMED, EVEN THOU ALOT IS OFF SCREEN SO THAT YOU MUST USE YOUR MIND WHICH IS EVEN MORE HAUNTING IN MY THOUGHTS ARE SO WELL DONE THAT IT LEAVES IMAGES CLOUDING YOUR THOUGHTS.
THIS IS NOT A FUN MOVIE. IT'S NOT A SUSPENSE, ACTION, DRAMA. IT'S A MOVIE THAT IS ABOUT REAL MONSTERS. THIS FILM STICKS TO THE POINT TO WHAT IS KNOWN WITH IN THE COURT FILES. THESE MONSTERS FILMED THERE CRIMES, THE MURDER, RAPE AND SO ON, THE MOVIES WHERE DESTROYED RIGHT ALONG WITH THE HOUSE IN TRYING TO HUSH HUSH WHAT HAPPEND IN THIS LITTLE CANADIAN AREA. IT AMAZES ME HOW TOWNS WANT TO COVER UP THE BOOGEYMAN AND ACT LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED AND TO FORGET ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THESE HORRIBLE CRIMES. EVERYBODY SAYS WELL THE HOUSE WAS TORN DOWN AND THE TAPES WHERE DESTROYED TO PROTECT THOSE INVOLVED, HOG WASH, IT WAS DESTRYOED TO FORGET ABOUT THIS CASE IN HOPES THAT BAD IMAGES OF THE TOWN AND AREA WOULD NOT BE TAINTED.
KARLA WAS A LYING, PSYCHOPATH RIGHT ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND PAUL. SHE HAS JUST AS MUCH TO DO WITH IT AS HE DID. SHE PLAYED THE SYSTEM AND WORKED THE EMOTIONS OF THOSE INVOLVED WITH HER CASE. AND NOW AS I WRITE THIS, THAT MONSTER, THAT BOOGEYMAN WALKS AMONG US. THIS WOMAN WHO HELPED KILL HER BABY SISTER AND THREE OTHER WOMEN, WHO WHERE TORTURED, RAPED, AND KEPT ALIVE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME TO BE TORMENTED BEYOND WORDS IS OUT LIVING HER LIFE.
THIS MOVIE WILL HAUNT AND TOUCH A NERVE THAT MAKES YOU WONDER AND THINK OF HOW PEOPLE CAN LIVE THIS WAY WITHOUT REMORSE. KARLA SHOWED NO REMORSE FOR HER ACTIONS, SHE COULD CARE LESS ABOUT ANYTHING SHE DID.
THIS MOVIE STARS AS KARLA LAURA PREPON, HER ROLE IS AMAZING. ONLY SEEING HER IN THE TV SHOW THAT 70'S SHOW AND NOW IN THIS ROLE OF A DISTURBED PERSON IS AMAZING. SHE CAPTURES THE EMOTIONAL HORROR OF KARLA IN REAL LIFE. MISHA COLLINS PLAYS PAUL WHO IS A TRUE EVIL PRESENCE IN ALL HIS ACTIONS. PAUL WAS A MAN THAT ENJOYED OTHERS TORMENT. HIS SEXUAL PLEASURE WAS PAIN AND TORMENT OF OTHERS. ONE SHOT IN THIS FILM IS DONE SO WELL THAT IT MAKES YOUR MOUTH DROP OPEN, PAUL COMES HOME AND LIKE IT'S NORMAL HE SAYS WITHOUT EMOTION, I RAPE A GIRL, I STOLE THESE CLOTHES FROM HER.
THIS MOVIE IS A MUST SEE, MUST WATCH. IT IS A REALITY BASED HORROR THAT WILL REMAIN IN YOUR MIND LONG AFTER THE MOVIE IS OVER.
MOST PEOPLE READING THIS REVIEW WILL BE LIKE I NEVER HEARD OF PAUL AND KARLA IT'S BECAUSE PLACES WANT TO HIDE THE TRUTH AND COVERUP THE HORROR THAT HAPPEND, THIS MOVIE WAS EVEN BOYCOTTED IN HOPES IT WOULD NOT BE PLAYED. SHAME ON ALL THAT WISH TO HIDE THE TRUTH OF THESE MONSTERS.
THIS IS A FILM THAT WILL OFFEND AND MAKE MAD. IT'S A WATCH THAT IS A MUST.
What One Woman Did for Love
2007-10-29 - This movie is probably a fairly accurate portrayal of the actual rape-murders that Karla Homolka famously helped her boyfriend commit. Karla became complicit in procuring young girls for her boyfriend to kidnap and attack during his long reign of terror in the Scarborough/St. Catherines areas of Ontario, Canada. She was ultimately convicted of having participated in only one of the murders.
Karla denied any direct knowledge of the murder as it was in progress. So this movie obviously had to make a decision about how to present her. The producers/director probably struck close to the truth when they chose to in fact show Karla as being knowledgeable about and actively abetting the crimes.
However, there is a sort of inherent contradiction in that interpretation. The psychologists who evaluated Karla (one of whom is intelligently portrayed here by actor Patrick Bauchau) pronounced her a sociopath - an amoral person lacking any capacity for empathy. In this movie version of her though, we see a woman in thrall to her boyfriend. Karla is shown being motivated by a desperate need to accommodate his sick needs in order to hold onto him.
So we don't know - was Karla suffering from an inability to love, or was she suffering from a tendency to love too compulsively? Was she suffering from a form of Stockholm Syndrome? As her boyfriend brutalizes Karla in turn, did this abuse form an adhesive seam between the two, bonding Karla all the more tightly to her captor?
"Karla" will leave you arguing these possibilities. Laura Prepon does a good job walking the line between the extremes. While, as Karla, she convincingly maintains she did it for love, her face remains blue ice impassive throughout her own and the other women's torment.
After watching this movie, you might be inclined to pursue the theme of a person's willingness to "go along" with madness a little further. If so, you can check out "Bug" starring Ashley Judd. "Bug" provides a fictional, but all-too-emotionally-real picture of a woman being drawn into the far side that is her boyfriend's world.
Odd combo 
2007-10-20 - I wanted to watch this movie after watching an A&E documentary on Ken and Barbie killers. It turned out to be an odd combination of a documentary and a thriller, narrated from Karla's perspective and many times showing her as non cooperative, victimised woman but ending on an unsympathetic note to her. (The jury concluded she was 'artificial, manupulative and with a strong moral vaccum bordering on psychosis' but there is no depiction of these traits anywhere in the movie's portrayal of her, just a scared, victimised woman). For a low budget movie though the pace is entertaining and victims treated with respect, their names are changed and no nudity is shown. Perhaps for a boring friday evening.
