The Cult

Mariah was beautiful and wonderfully had me guessing the whole movie! Better than most Lifetime movies for sure, thought I had the plot figured out more than once but due to a great job on screen I was still surprised at the end!

Everytime nwas excellent. The cast, the story the plot twist. Ohh and Mariah was hands down my fav. I deff see more LTM in my future.

I figured out that the "twist" was possible almost right at the start. This movie was the equivalent of Lifetime's frequent "trick" of having a different body type in a black hoodie doing all the attacks to (unsuccessfully) throw viewers off the scent of the actual and obvious villain. This movie has everyone acting like characters from Shirley Jackson's The Lottery only to make the most suspicious ones the heroes. Never mind the fact that Heather (the mom) was being run out of town by these so-called "heroes." There's a twist, and then there's deception. These cult movies are always over the top and come off as "a very special episode," of a preachy tv show. The only thing missing was characters rattling off statistics. Not a single normal character existed in this movie and none of them had personalities. Most of the movie is the mom screeching "where is my daughter?!" and that honestly got tiresome after a couple of times.

Nothing special and not rewatch worthy. Which is a shame bc as an All My Children fan, Jacob Young was the reason I watched, but not even he could save it. I'd also like to add that Fatal Following is probably closer to what's going on here than My Daughter's Double Life, the title under which it premiered on LMN.

A tell on lousier-than-usual Lifetime movies is that they have multiple titles. This one was shown on 10/09/21 as "My Daughter's Double Life". The only reason I gave it a 6 is that the acting was pretty good, however maddeningly the story went. But despite decent acting there is such a thing as just too plain stupid.

Ally, a teen, with a controlling mother, Heather, wants to run away from her and moves to another town. Heather is told she drowned there but mom doesn't believe it since they never recovered her body. So what really happened and why? You will have to tune in to find out. This movie has a real twist at the end. Worth one watch......