Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

In a way, part of me wants to give this documentary a 9, based on the pure disgust I so deeply felt. I love documentaries and horror and I like to watch the most disturbing movies you can find sometimes. I've pretty much seen them all. This one for me is the most disturbing documentary I have ever seen. The family doesn't seem real. You wonder how such people could exist and call themselves human. Incredible monstrosity. I don't want to over exaggerate - it's hard to find the right words to properly describe and review this documentary. So I guess I give it a 7. I respect any Director that presents a film so evocative that you feel it physically. That said, this is not a movie fit for a rewatch. And not a movie fit for many people probably. It's not a happy story; or one left with much hope.

Firstly, I agree with the other reviews that believed this film seemed to be more about the hillbilly family than the victim or her murder. Secondly, I've never seen so many f*caked up teeth in one film. With the exception of perhaps 4 ppl in the entire film (none of which were part of the family) everyone had the most twisted, funky grills. Most all the boys in the film were either inbred or had clear traits of some sort of disability. In short, a family of white trash recruits a mentally disabled woman to live in their house and be their slave. The mother (a toothless, 400lb woman in a wheelchair) controls a syndicate of hoodlums made up of her welfare sons. The mother convinces the 22yr old special needs woman to get pregnant by her 16yr old son, in hopes of her having a little girl. Again, let me emphasize the rotten teeth... The mother clearly is a sociopath with severe mental limitations, with a perverse obsession with baby girls. After the mentally disabled woman has the baby, the cult mother has her killed by a couple of the kids living in the house. There is almost no attention given to how or why society allowed this poor disabled woman to be abused and murdered by this family with a combined IQ of about 30. The brooks family was clearly bred to either do manual labor in prison, become members of the MAGA movement, or to appear in another Hills Have Eyes movie. And yet, these ppl continue to breed in multitudes...

I gave this movie a six because I love crime documentaries. However while this is that, it seems less about the very tragic life of Vera, and more about how this jaba the hut of a womans evil puppeteering caused an entire family to become complete animals and brutalize another human being for fun before ultimately murdering her for the sole purpose that they no longer had fun doing it. The police and everyone else in this pathetic town should be held accountable. Every single person let this woman down but that disgusting family should be in prison for the rest of their days. One family member couldn't help but smirk and smile each and EVERY SINGLE TIME he saId ANYTHING about what happened to this womab. They are all guilty and not a single one of them deserve to see the light of day ever again except at yard time in prison. This sugarbear is as vindictive as the crazy woman from Evil Genius. It goes to show you true evil is walking (waddling?) among us and weather you believe in a God or not, it's plain to see real evil exsits. This family is proof. I understand they wanted to do a documentary about this hienous crime but i think the focus was on the wrong subjects. Vera was only the backdrop even in a movie about the crime that was her murder. Its a shame, for her and her poor daughter, the moment she ever laid eyes upon the Brooks family. May she rest in peace.

Ok after I read others reviews, I didn't feel so bad about stating the truth. Does anyone in that town have teeth or do exercise?? They need to look into that. And also such a frustrating documentary because it's about this messed up family, who should all be in prison, instead of vera who was brutally murdered.

What happened to aiding and abetting being a crime???

Every single person that was EVER in that house was part of this crime. (Oh yeah, I would go to their house for pizza and Vera would be getting shoved in the oven, but boy the pizza was good)

WHAT? WHAT ?

My brain is stuck.