The Cult

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.

Well, that was a kind of cool time-waster. Another pic with many unfamiliar names, but the tale is decent enough, and the surprise does truly surprise. There are of course some plot holes, and I wouldn't have minded a little more follow-up resolution, but...whatever. Lifetime movie fans will have a bit of fun here.

*** Saw it as "My Daughter's Double Life" ***

This did not come across as your regular LMN feature, and the plot seemed to be inspired by Alfred Hitchcock! Also, some parts of the movie reminded me of the classic "Gaslight".

And again, the weird twist at the end really surprised me. (Another thing that surprised me was that the mother and daughter actually looked the appropriate age!)

I don't know what title you will see it under, as "Fatal Following" and "The Cult" appear to be others, but it's worth a look.

7/10.

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.

This tv crap is a festival of bad acting in itself. I just can't take it anymore, there not one decent movie out there in the past two years at least. Is all a compilation of bad and terrible movies. Even past good actors have gone sideways and is like someone stole their acting capabilities...aliens have taken over in the movie industry.