9. In Her Skin - The Murder Of Rachel Barber
When I saw this movie on Instant Netflix, I put it on my queue but danced (no pun intended) around watching it. I thought it would be like The Lovely Bones; depressing and sad. I was right, to an extent. In the movie, we are introduced to the Melbourne's, an average Australian family with a very gifted child (among other children who, apparently, were not as awesome). We are thrown into the story at the moment they realize Rachel, their fifteen year old ballerina daughter, was not at the train station after dance class. We then spend the next half an hour watching them search for her, trying to get the police to help (in vain), and getting the media involved. We are then shifted to the story of a girl named Caroline who lives a very pathetic, lonely, and psychologically corrupt life. Entirely dependent on her father's acceptance (portrayed by the forever stunningly handsome Sam Neil), Caroline lives alone and we watch as she goes through a mental collapse. She has known Rachel for years now and Single, White Femaled" her, though never came close enough. After years of admiring her from afar, Caroline sees Rachel on a street one day with her boyfriend, and comes up with a plot to lure the dancer to her house and kill her, hoping to completely encapsulate all that Rachel was. Turns out, there was a girl in Australia who was a very gifted ballet dancer named Rachel Barber. On March 1, 1999, the 15 year old Rachel went missing. The murderer? A neighbor girl named Caroline Reed Robertson, 19 years old, who used to babysit her when they were younger. Caroline had strangled the life out of Rachel in a strange attempt to later assume the girl's identity. The Barber family was shocked to find out their babysitter was their daughter's murderer. Since being jailed, Caroline Reed Robertson has undergone a drastic physical change and started looking more and more like her prison friend, a cocaine smuggler named Andrea Mohr. Caroline remains silent about her crime and shows no remorse for what she has done. She is set to be released in 2020.