What is scary is how these films get made for the public. Of course, there will be copycats. Viewers that get a kick out of the sordidness of it all. Sick people in the world that movies like this will encourage to continue their sick violence. I blame producers, writers and directors for making these kind of films. They should stop. Don't they read the papers? Next we'll see the Boston Marathon bombings made into a TV special glorifying those two terrorists. It truly makes me sick when I see films like this which costs plenty being spent when we need that money put to better use, like helping the victims of tragedy. I wonder if this producer or writer or director ever contributed their money to a good cause? Lauren Prepon played a useless piece of fluff very well. I hated her throughout the movie and had no sympathy at all for she made her bed and so shall she lie in it. Then there's the demented Misha Collins as the bad little boy. He did okay. I really couldn't get into his performance as I felt he went over the wall with it. And please, get a haircut. That's all.

Not everyone's cup of tea; and not for the squeamish. Director Joel Bender presents a stark story based on actual events. Karla Homolka(Laura Prepon)falls quickly in love with Paul Bernardo(Misha Collins)knowing nothing about his previous life and being a suspect in a string murders. This story is based on Karla's point of view and its not pretty. Paul is infatuated with Karla's younger sister(Cherilyn Hayres); constantly filming her and actually filming her death. Karla wanting only to please Paul, joins in his desires of kidnapping, psychologically and sexually abusing young women before killing them. By the end of this brutal drama you must explore whether Karla is a willing accomplice to these heinous crimes or is she just a victim of Paul's influence. Prepon, better known for her TV work...especially That 70's Show, is so believable in this role. And Collins is so easy to dislike. Others in the cast:Patrick Bauchau, Emile Jacobs, Tanya Lemelle, Shawn Hoffman, Tess Harper and Sarah Foret. KARLA deserves its R rating.

Well, I have written reviews about people wrongly convicted, as in the movie "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" (a must-see), a scary discourse on a sometime court procedural. And now conversely, a comment about someone rightfully convicted. However, she didn't nearly get her due behind bars. So I guess that's not so "rightfully." Hence, I guess sometimes 'justice' (whatever that word means) - is like the wind and leaves. On any given day, it scatters about to and with the whim of the day.As a movie, this has the feel of Lifetime or the Hallmark channel written all over it. It is basically Karla at her eight-year prison mark meeting with a psychiatrist and discussing events from her case in hopes of parole. We see everything in retrospect - as she and the shrink discuss it. Prepon is good and goes through the motions of what this unfortunate script requires. I recommend watching a documentary rather than this dramatization. It is better towards the end, but with all the movies available, unless you're ardently following this case - skip it.Sidenote: With all due respect to the victims - this can be quite funny in a few spots, but only in the way tragedy borders on comedy. Megalomaniac-psychopath-sociopath-misanthropic Bernardo, GET this, actually thinks he's a rapper. These scenes when he is attempting to rap somewhat place you in a vortex and you're caught in a glazing gaze not knowing what to think or do. I laughed. But in the confusion of blowing leaves - it's not so easy to know what to do.

People keep writing in their reviews that Laura Prepon and Misha Collins are horrible actors but I beg to differ, I think that Prepon owned the role (there is only so much an actress can do with the script given her) + the story is being told from only one person's point of view so of course it's going to seem uneven. What was most shocking to me was the fact that Karla(Prepon) helped with the violation and murder of her own little sister and then married the guy she claimed to be the mastermind behind it all. To me, that's where it all began. She claimed that he was raping girls way before he met her but for the viewer, what happened with the little sister and Paul's obsession with her(the little sister) was where it all began. I have not read the book or followed any of the material from the real-life tragedy from which the film is inspired but the facts that were brought forward in this film are just really really beyond my jurisdiction. This was truly a startling film.