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I have read the book and the movie did it no justice. So much was left out, like the parents visiting more than once, how Paula was actually not as nice as the movie portrays, the constant abuse, the fights, and much more. Also they found her dead in the basement, she was not pulled into the kitchen as the movie showed, her sister was not present when the body was found, and so on. I had to explain to my husband the actual events recorded by detectives and how the movie left them out. The movie portrayed Gerti as this poor, stressed out mother who had cause for her actions in all reality she was a psychotic bitch who mutilated, tortured, and murdered poor Sylvia. It seemed to pull away from the poor demise of Sylvia and put the focus on Gerti and her daughters as sometimes crazy but mostly poor helpless victims of circumstance.