Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Suzette Couture
Tagline: [None]
Actors: Colin Ferguson, Megan Vincent, Stephen Amell, Lara Flynn Boyle, Emma Campbell, Victoria Fodor, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Heather Hanson, Natalie Lisinska, Michael Scratch, Charlotte Sullivan, Niamh Wilson
Runtime: [Working on it]
Category: Book Adaptation, Thriller
Synopsis: An affluent couple, Col and her husband Walker, live next to Kim, an aspiring architect with a beautiful new house designed by him. Soon he moves out and a nice couple who are expecting move in. The women on the block, who are all good friends, welcome them with open arms. At their house warming party, she gets pushed down the stairs by her husband. She looses the baby and they move away. Not long after, another couple moves in. The couple has lost their son in Iraq and are having a hard enough time getting over their loss. No more than a day after moving in she begins hallucinating; seeing her dead son and hearing him on the phone. Eventually she sees him on the TV and Col sees him too! The wife goes insane and hangs herself. Then another couple moves in with a young daughter, Belinda. Col and Belinda become friends and retreats to her house when her parents are fighting. One night it gets out of control and her mother ends up shooting her father…then herself. Now convinced that the house is somehow to blame for the mishaps, Col and Walker decide to destroy it; only Kim has come back to reclaim it. Oh…what to do.
Review: I am not a fan of the Lifetime Network in any way shape or form. There’s no Jonny on the pony over here. But this movie was actually really cool; almost like The Amityville Horror (1979) in the suburbs. I was very surprised by the movie considering ninety-nine per cent of Lifetime movies are about beaten and/or battered women. Explain that one to me: Lifetime…”Television for Women”…shows movies about women getting the snot knocked out of them…I guess I just don’t get it. Either way, this movie was really cool.
The story, as stated previously, is very similar to The Amityville Horror (1979). The only difference is that the house is evil because Kim was evil. Everything Kim made/designed was evil. And the fact that every family that lived in the house ended up suffering a horrible tragedy before vacating made the story even better: they were able to change up the tide a bit with each new family. I also liked how Col and Walker took it upon themselves to become the liberators of the evil within the house. Overall…good flick.
The acting was ok…just ok. The movie itself didn’t really scare me but Lara Flynn Boyle did. Her collagen looked like it was done by a blind guy. And apart from her natural squint, I don’t think she had made a single facial expression the entire movie! I think the only one who did a good job was Heather Hanson, playing the wife with the dead son. She did an excellent job of gradually going insane. But…other than that…eh.
There was no real gore to speak of, or effects really, except for the explosion at the end. Even though you knew it was fake, obviously, just by looking at it, it was not that bad…for a Lifetime movie.
Rating: 16. Apart from the mediocre acting and the lack of effects, this movie was pretty good. With a compelling story and a solid concept to work off of, they were able to keep my attention throughout. Congratulations…you have been able to make Jonny Cage sit through an entire Lifetime original movie. (16of25).
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