January 10, 2006

Joel Bender's KARLA to open in theatres across Canada on January 20th

(Posted In Drama Film News Horror Trailer Alert USA and Canada )

karla_poster.jpgFrom the January 10th Globe and Mail article "Karla opens next week":

A Montreal-based company has agreed to distribute a controversial feature film about convicted teen-killer Karla Homolka in theatres across Canada, opening on Jan. 20.

Christal Films confirmed yesterday that it has struck a deal with Quantum Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based producers of Karla, to carry the 104-minute film which explores the murderous activities of Homolka and her then-husband, Paul Bernardo, in Southwestern Ontario in 1991 and 1992. The 35-year-old Homolka was released from prison in July last year and reportedly now lives in the Montreal area.

. . .

Yesterday Cineplex Entertainment, the country's largest movie chain, confirmed it will be showing Karla in 15 major markets, including Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax -- but not St. Catharines, the small Ontario city where the rapes and deaths of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French originated. Indeed, the movie's Ontario exhibition is to be restricted to only the greater Toronto area, where it will play on no more than 20 screens.

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The Globe and Mail: "Karla opens next week"
Christal Films Distribution Inc.
Cineplex Entertainment LP
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): Review of Karla
Karla official website
Karla trailer (downloadable 10.6 MB MOV file)

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Reader Comments

I know this is judging the movie with out seeing it, but that trailer looks like it is low-rent/made-for-TV at the very best. Why this is not going straight to DVD or Television remains a mystery to me...

» Posted by Kurt at January 10, 2006 12:10 PM

i have to agree with kurt, and it looks like a sympathy for karla movie!

» Posted by deeplydubbed at January 10, 2006 02:53 PM

Years before the murders, Bernardo was at large as the "Scarborough Rapist." The Toronto Sun published a police sketch (only released years after the rapes began) on the front page. I was standing in line at The Uptown Theater (RIP) when the cops pulled up and dragged a dead ringer for the drawing out of the line for questioning. It wasn't Bernardo. Can't for the life of me remember what film I was seeing.

An article on the film in today's Sun:

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/01/11/1388601-sun.html

I think the actress who plays Homolka is badly miscast -- though the guy playing Bernardo, while he doesn't look like him, seems to have tapped into his mania. Unbelievably, the movie apparently doesn't include the sick couple's picturebook wedding. The fact that the ceremony took place on the same day that police hauled poor Leslie Mahaffy's concrete-encased body parts out of a nearby lake is chilling to this day...

» Posted by jasong at January 11, 2006 11:15 AM

Well, i just looked at this beacuse my first name is actually Karla and i always wanted to become a killer........and i live in New York....

» Posted by Karla Mae at May 16, 2006 06:40 AM

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