User Reviews

I've been watching a lot of LMN movies lately and it kills me that these women are so naive and leave there home without security systems and no dead bolt. This one I just didn't care for after he kills the girls ex boyfriend. I wish they didn't always kill the friend or boyfriend! But it was ok because of the acting.

Will LMN ever get tired of the same old pattern of: psycho-stalks-unsuspecting-victim-puts-cameras-in-their-house/apartment-ruins-their-life-by-getting-them-fired-kicked-out-of-school-drains-their-bank-account-runs-up-their-credit-cards-and-kills-their-friends-and-people-who-are-onto-them??

Over and over and over they use this same worn out shtick that was fun and innovative the first few times, but now after the 500th one, is boring, monotonous, and predictable. It really makes me regret that I didn't get rich by writing a ton of these scripts with no more effort than just changing the psycho and victim characters' names and places/locations.

This one was a tiny bit different in that the best friend wasn't killed or even so much as kidnapped by the psycho stalker, but other than that, it was Same Old Formula.

Major complaint with this movie - as with several other LMN flicks: PLEASE STOP playing loud soundtrack WHILE CHARACTERS ARE TALKING. I've mentioned that before in previous reviews, as have other LMN movie reviewers here. So much of the dialogue is missed that way, by being drowned out with loud soundtrack.

Another complaint about this particular movie is the almost standstill slowness of some of the scenes even to the point of frozen close-up shots that seemingly last forever. During the interminably long one of the lead actress in the dark, near the beginning, when she froze due to her nyctophobia, I thought the cable channel itself had frozen and was just about to change channels to see if the others were frozen too, to see if I needed to turn cable box off and back on to reboot it.

Second major complaint, comprised of many smaller ones - the contrived, flawed ending:

First, she shouldn't have hung up on 911 after giving the address, and should've kept the phone with her.

Second, she didn't give the apt. number - only the street address to a building with multiple apartments, so how would the cops know which one she was in?

Third, she went to the windows to yell for help first after freeing herself from the ropes, instead of going to the door to try to escape through it.

Fourth, the cop checked the bathroom WITHOUT turning on the light AND without turning her head or taking an extra step to look in the bathtub, which no cop would fail to do when responding to an SOS call in an apt. They would turn on all lights and check all areas of all rooms.

Methinks that either Lifetime has no respect for its viewers by continually insulting our intelligence this way, or they're the ones who increasingly lack intelligence by foisting these unintelligent, blatantly contrived movies on their viewers.

Grade D-

Same lifetime story. Bad guy meets innocent woman, falls in love with her right away, act jealous or crazy, she dumps him, he ruins her credit/job/associations (very easily), and tries to kill her when she realizes he's crazy. This one was especially annoying because Lydia made dumb decisions. She called 911, didn't give a full address & hung up...leaving the phone on the table. She was put in a bathtub to drown but didn't try to sit up in this 6 inches of water. When the movie ended she was just fine though, no counseling needed.

Lydia Shaw is an exceptional English literature student desperately in need of an apartment. She takes a place under renovation by the landlord Drew, who is immediately attracted to her. But when his attentions appear to be obsessive, Lydia breaks off the romance. At that point, Drew becomes the landlord out of hell.

The pace of film was sluggish and the action was generally static in that it was primarily confined in Lydia's apartment 105. By the midpoint, the film became increasingly unpleasant and violent, due to the psycho landlord. On top of everything, Lydia had a difficult past, losing her parents in a tragic audio accident. She also suffers from nyctophobia, or fear of the dark, a weakness exploited by the sadistic Drew.

Lydia was such a sympathetic character and the antics of Drew made her life so miserable that the film turned into a depressing experience. Drew cleverly substituted a different paper for her candidacy for an important internship. He also disrupted her financial aid at the university, and he brutally killed her ex-boyfriend Tim, a recovering alcoholic.

Even the closing action scene with Lydia in the bathtub and the hapless police officer wandering around the apartment was clumsy. It was not even clear who made the arrest on Drew. Lydia was too smart not to have recognized the early warning signs about Drew and vacated the apartment. Alternatively, she had the wherewithal to have located more suitable living accommodations in the first place.

I don't know how I spent the last 2 hours watching this movie on Lifetime. Like someone has mentioned already, it starts off painfully slow so much that I was about to change the channel. It got somewhat more dramatic near the end which is the only reason I kept watching but it was nothing unique or special. This is only worth watching if there's absolutely nothing else on honestly. The ending is what you would expect. Landlord is obsessed with woman. He kidnaps her. The police comes. She gets out. Same ole. Same ole. Of course Lifetime does a lot of the same things but they usually make it very entertaining. Disappointing for a Lifetime Movie.

Classic tale of a down on her luck girl, who just broke up with her strung out actor that took one too many "how to act young and dangerous" classes. I do feel bad for the girl's life that when someone turns out all the lights in a high ceiling apartment in the middle of the day, she shuts down and can't hear a thing until the lights go back on. All the while, the not so charming or subtle bad guy turns up the creep factor sneaking around her apartment. Of course this is interrupted as charm by the classic Lifetime best friend, who insists that she pursue a romantic relationship with the smoldering apartment manager.

Half way thru the movie, it suddenly decides to change "the creepy tenet" from middle aged man cradle robbing vibes to a "college frat boy that skips class" type of villain. They double down on this time shift by having him say such lines "as woah why so many books?" while in a library to "seriously do you wanna make out here?" to "ditching me for studying!?" Then to remind the audience the true middle aged creep in this movie was the TA from the first few minutes that obviously had a sketchy relationship with his student. Surprise though he, the TA, is the victim in that relationship as the student tricked him the whole time.

Classic Lifetime Movie stalker drama though that features such classics as stalker hovering over the bed of his sleeping prey. The true highlight of the onscreen movie though was when the villain turns the movie into his on personal music video taking a sledge hammer to the walls of the upstairs apartment. Watch it ironically for what it is or don't watch it at all.

Side note, the most exciting thing that happened to me during this movie, was when my wife screamed from seeing a bug in the basement. Spent 15 minutes from trying to find the body. Then screamed again when she saw a giant spider, in the same way a young virgin girl describes the male anatomy. And sulks in the fact that she is scared to live with spider but more angry at the fact that she knows she can't not kill the spider. Comes upstairs exclaiming "I hate basements. My arm hurts. That thing was HUGE! And I still don't know where the body went." (Slaps her arm trying to shake out the fatigue)