Pool Boy Nightmare

This was the usual LMN movie which was fun to watch. My comments:

1. The mother and daughter once again looked like older / younger sisters. Attention make-up department!

2. The pool boy had charm, but what's with all the tattoos?

3. The reasons given by the pool boy for the insanity were kinda shocking.

4. If anything, wait for the end hairdryer and bathtub used to dispatch the sick bad guy - over the top!

Movie starts pretty good but gets very unrealistic as it progresses. Unrealistic storyline and the ending is also hard to believe as if what the mother does in the end would work in real life. Better skip this one.

Still fresh from a divorce from her cheating husband, Gale Foley (Jessica Morris) hopes that her new house will mean a fresh start for her and her teenage daughter Becca (Ellie Darcey-Alden). Her new home also comes with a pool, which is how Gale meets Adam Lance (Tanner Zagarino), the pool cleaner for the home's previous owner. Charmed by Adam's good looks and suave personality, Gale takes on Adam as her own pool boy--and ends up sharing a passionate fling with the young man. However she immediately regrets her action and breaks it off with the pool boy, saying that it was a mistake and can't happen again, but as this is a thriller - and a Lifetime thriller more accurately- the Pool boy doesn't accept this and shows a vengeful side by romancing her daughter as a means of getting back at her. As Gale tries to get Adam out of her and her daughter's lives, her former lover's obsession proves more twisted than she could imagine...

A fairly formulaic "Scorned Lover" drama that Lifetime can do in its sleep, but it's still fun with adequate bouts of suspense and thrills, if a little tame. It's well acted, especially by the pool boy who switches from romantic to psycho with ease. You do sort of feel sorry for him but his penchant for pouring bleach in a swimming pool burning his girlfriend's dad and self inflicting injuries so the dad can take the blame shows how ill he is.

I actually really enjoyed this one, granted it's totally predictable and nothing brand new. There's something about Lifetime movies that just suck me right in.

He surprised me with how believable he was. Good acting from him. It's an entertaining thriller for a chick flick night!