The Killer in My Backyard

The Lifetime Movie Machine churns out another one. Don't the writers get tired of reusing the same formulas all the time? The same plots, over and over again? The same "twists" over and over again? Gaping plot holes you can drive a truck through?

I guess not. How else can they keep producing around two movies a week?

If you've seen any of the previous Lifetime "obsessed tenant" movies, you've already seen this one. Skip it.

The progression throughout the story line was unrealistic. The acting was horrible, especially from the lead male. His line delivery most of the time had no emotion and fell short. The lead female's sister probably was the best actress out of the entire cast. Some scenes were unnecessary and didnt make sense.

Never seen so many dumb clueless characters in a single LMN movie! It must be a record! Not even going to bother analysing this codswallop! So just been told my review is too short and needs to be 150 characters. Let's try one more time!

If anything can be learned from this, its that you probably shouldn't rent out a guesthouse of a house you have just moved into, and for a seeminly over eager man without doing a background check, and without consulting your fiancee first. Yet here we are. Eric and allyson are the unlucky couple. You can see josh is untrustworthy from the beginning and has a semi strange obsesion with erics asistant. The plot is predictable in places but atleast the acting was not to terrible in this and was passable. But the plot itself and how it unfolds until the end was overall just a bit boring but worth a watch still.

....they'd rush round with the sirens blaring.

This was the point at which I couldn't take any more and stopped watching - I was already at the end of my tether for all the reasons listed by other reviewers. From what I'm gathering I made the correct decision.

Apparently I need another 300 odd characters before I can submit, so I may as well continue - the cardboard characters, the unrealistic scenario that the husband would just let the guesthouse out to a stranger on a whim because he seemed OK, without references or even speaking to his wife first, even though it's a jointly owned property - I dread to think how much worse the decision making from the "protagonists" became - it usually ends up with one or both of them going to an isolated place alone to confront the dangerous killer.

Enough characters now. Phew.