ThiefHott Too much of everything

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

sheinavi Reading most of the reviews I get why a lot of people would say that this film didn't need to be made.I myself is a fan of disturbing movies but this one struck so hard that I kept thinking about it days after watching it. Maybe because it is based on real events.To me, it is good they made this film. It served as an informative material to me. After watching it I read articles about psychopaths. It is really hard to imagine they could be anywhere, like your neighbors or your friends. There is more than meets the eye. Good reminder to always be careful and cautious.** SPOILERS **I wish they told us more about the real involvement of Karla to the murders. Based on the paragraph shown in the end, she is more psychopathic than Paul. And wow she even got out of jail and has a child? Hopefully the kid grows up good. I read that psychopathy can be genetic.I only watched this because I've watched Supernatural and love Misha there, and have been binge watching That 70's show where Laura Prepon stars as Donna. Got really interested with them being paired up.

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.

guil fisher 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.

Sherazade 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.