Karla

2006 "Evil has a beautiful face."
5.4| 1h39m| R| en| More Info
Released: 11 November 2006 Released
Producted By: Quantum Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.

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SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
galahad58-1 First off the film itself is dull and awful. Terrible acting and a terrible script. But the worse part (and I know this from friends who have had interaction with the real characters) is that they are making Karla a victim when she was the mastermind of most of these sick acts - she was not a victim and the fact that she is portrayed as one is an insult to the true victims and it shows how a sick, immoral Hollywood would praise a killer - why not they want Roman Polanski back after he raped little girls.
Marcus Mitchell The Lifetime version takes a lot of negative stuff out seamlessly. Trust me, the Hollywood version of this movie is not for most people's viewing pleasure!That being said, Paul Bernado fashions Karla Homolka, who has an usspeakable narcissism and Paul is the object of it, into a slave that lets him do whatever he wants and she denies her own self in doing so.. Which goes to say, Paul was her god and she accepts these terms as Jonestown members accepted Jim Jones' evil.. KARLA WILL DO ANYTHING AT PAUL'S INSISTANCE OR THAT SHE THINKS WILL MAKE HIM HAPPY! THIS IS NOT METAPHORIC WHERE THERE'S NO PROOF OF WHAT I SAY; SHE ACTUALLY FULFILLS THE YEARNINGS OF A SADISTIC RAPIST AND KILLER!Now, how far she actually goes in every instance of the movie or what she leaves out is up for debate, but she actually carries out something MUCH more horrible than the stuff that she denies doing. So, to be honest,even if she didn't do these things or some of the other things, she would if Paul wanted it badly enough or threatened to be separate from her. Paul had to literally knock some sense into her for her to deny him. This let's you that other people's pain meant little to her, but her own meant a lot(i.e. The Green River Killer). A movie about Karla's narcissism, which was an image of Paul's, and Paul's satanic narcissism(just plain evil and he lived to get what he wanted) The ending in the writing will completely floor you! As I understand it, it happened in Canada; if so, it's not an absolute shocker from the crime documentaries that I have seen of Canada. Let's just say that, you wouldn't want to live there from the crime documentaries that I've seen.
begob Girl falls in love with boy, discovers he's a rapist, marries him and colludes in his continued depravity, then gets caught.Earnest tale told in plain flashback, with no insight on the characters and no interest in the nature of truth and little by way of visceral horror. The killing scenes are tame, giving no sense of the rush of adrenalin in perpetrators or victims, or the ugliness and finality of violent death. So overall it feels like an old-fashioned made for TV movie.You get to the postscript and find an entirely different character from the one portrayed by the lead actress, and it's a real head scratcher to think they didn't use that angle to mess things up and break from the linear story telling.Performances are fine. Lighting is mostly bright, so no great moodiness. Music did its job.Overall: Simple tale of depravity that didn't feel depraved.Seems there was controversy in Canada over this, and several of the actors repudiated the film, with lurid tales of misconduct on the set. Its real weakness is that it pulls its punches and fails to be nasty enough.
wes-connors Hoping for parole, chain-smoking icy blonde Laura Prepon (as Karla Homolka) tells prison psychiatric Patrick Bauchau (as Dr. Arnold) how she met handsome serial killer husband Misha Collins (as Paul Bernardo), and became his murderous co-dependent, in flashbacks… After a whirlwind courtship, the newlyweds begin by accidentally offing Ms. Prepon's pretty sister, Cherilyn Hayres (as Tammy); her overdose ruins Mr. Collins' plan for an unconscious deflowering.Soon, it's obvious Collins gets off on violent sex with young women. Prepon paints Collins as a spell-binding rapist. Losing her will, Prepon tells Collins, "It's my mission in life to make you feel good." When he begins to bring rape victims home for threeways, Prepon is led to help… Unconvincing in explaining her behavior, the film seems to be asking if the convicted "Karla" should go free; while the lead performances are okay, the insignificant story is dead on arrival.**** Karla (1/20/06) Joel Bender ~ Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Sarah Foret