Every Canadian knows the names Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. The couple committed the most nefarious crimes this country has probably ever seen and it shocked the whole nation. Without going into the needless details, the general jist is that these 2 demons kidnapped, drugged, raped and killed teenage girls in Ontario… including Karla Homolka’s own sister.
The horrible events happened over a decade ago… and has been thrown back in the spotlight due to the fact that Homolka was only sentenced to 12 years in prison (she cut a deal to turn evidence on Bernardo) and was just released earlier this month. And now it’s going to step up another notch…
An American company has producer the film “Deadly” which will premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival to be screened between August 26th and September 5th. Screenings that Ontario Premier (head of the provincial government… sort of like a Govenor of a State in the US) has called for a boycott of. The good folks at the Globe and Mail give us this:
The $5-million film, called “Deadly”, was directed by Joel Bender and stars Laura Prepon (That ’70s Show) as Homolka and Misha Collins (24, Girl Interrupted) as Bernardo.
“The purpose of the director Joel Bender is an extreme close-up of Karla Homolka and her role as half of Canada’s most infamous couple,” the festival said in a statement.
“How could a woman be so much in love with a man that she became an accomplice in a series of horrific murders?” The film is based on facts that were reported by the Canadian media, the statement also said. Homolka was sentenced in 1993 to 12 years in prison for the murders of Ontario schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. The sentence also took into account her role in the death of her sister, Tammy Homolka
Movies tell stories… and this is quite a sad, horrific story indeed. Probably one of the saddest this country has ever endured. I’ll see this film… if for no other reason than to be horrified by it. I think we need to be horrified by somethings… and reminded of them too sometime.
