The Stepmother

This was honestly the worst movie I've seen, from seriously 2 seconds in I was so done. All of it was just the worst, I'm sorry. The acting, the way it's being played out, the acting!

When I saw Marques Houston and Erica Mena I assumed this movie would be garbage. But I gave it a chance and the premise is very similar to The Stepfather (which I've seen all 4). Some of the acting is OFF from multiple characters and sort of comical, but overall the writers did try to add depth with backstories. There were some loose ends but still better than expected.

I've heard the acting was bad, but i don't think that's true. The writing was worse then common scam scripts, the writing makes the acting seem much worse than it is. It's disappointing to because you can see the budget this movie had, watching it, the cinematography isn't half bad, its the writing that does it. When i saw the name and description i was counting on one of the classic, mass-produced, lifetime style thriller movies, and while I'm 100% sure that's what they wanted to do it felt more like something in between a parody and a student film drawing inspiration from these types of movies. The sub plot of the romance between the son and the neighbor is also wildly unnecessary. The characters presented aren't fleshed out enough to have you rooting for them, in fact i found my self most attached to the antagonist of the movie, the one with the most thought out story and background. Overall, the movie is choppy making time jumps every 30 minutes, and poorly written, i think had they given it another 6 months to really figure out the flaws in this movie they could have had something that was exactly what they wanted it to be and could have fitted right in with LifeTime.

Erica was not bad. With some acting classes she can improve alot. Keep working on ur talent. MH was a little rusty. Cynthia was a little dry but I think the character was dry.

I just knew this was going to be a awesome movie, I was laughing non stop because of the terrible acting. The laughs were overly dramatic, everything just seemed so fake. This movie could have been way better.