Things in the movie, like the slasher movie music cues, hint that Karla has exploitation in its veins. The reasons for making it -- and seeing it -- remain more than slightly suspect.
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03/16/07
Karla (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 0 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 3.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Synopsis: A deeply disturbing true story… Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka’s psychological dance with death and depravity – faithfully recreated here in stunning performances by Misha Collins and Laura Prepon – will haunt you forever…because it’s true. Every scene of the film was derived... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Misha Collins, Laura Prepon, Tess Harper, Cherilyn Hayres, Patrick Bauchau
Director: Joel Bender
Reviews
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Movies about real life serial killers are released frequently. It's when they're missing grief that they become an insult to the memory of the dead.
12/08/06
Because we only see one side of the events, "Karla" rings unconvincing and sensationalistic.
01/24/06
Little ambiguity or tension at the core of this hollow karaoke version of the Bernardo-Homolka murders . . . Karla seldom probes its title character's own complicity.
01/21/06
You can call it guilty of exploitation, tastelessness or insensitivity if you like, but its greatest failing is a certain deadly pointlessness.
01/20/06
What proves most disturbing is the way in which the film portrays Homolka as a victim.
01/20/06
Controversial and innately creepy, it left me feeling... well, dirty.
01/20/06
In truth, nothing in the movie Karla will add much to the debate, other than serving as yet another reminder. But I do not believe it will do any harm, either.
01/20/06
No audience, Canadian or otherwise, will learn anything here outside of the macabre facts. Worse, they won't feel anything either, not even -- and this is inexcusable -- for the victims themselves.
01/20/06
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