Whispers and Lies

Caught the last half of this. Didn't need to see the first to get what was going on.. Bad acting-and I mean I've seen better in a junior high school talent show, completely typical characters with not much thought put into them, greasy hair, a dead body laying in a warm room, 'flu' shots on the inside of the arm, cheap sponsor shots...the list goes on, and that was 20 minutes in.. There is so much wrong with thus movie. So predictable and expected. A typical 'B'..not even-a 'C' movie.

Glad it was on TV and not something I really picked or paid extra for.

Not something worth buying if it is on an app.

Canadian films can, infrequently, be great. Not so with this turkey. This ranks among the worst that I have ever seen.

Two cousins visit an island off the coast of Oregon. One of them disappears after being injured in an attempted purse snatching. She is taken to the local doctor by an island gentleman/suitor who just "happens" along. The heroine, who shares the same heightened immune system as her cousin, revealed to us by the presence of a birthmark they have in common, spends the duration of the film searching for her missing cousin while receiving no assistance and a lot of unexplainable grief from the local lawman who gives a great impression of a mannequin though not quite as animated. Preposterous events follow one after another. Perhaps the worst performance is rendered by the "troubled" daughter of the local lady doctor dressed in the mandatory full goth. People appear of out nowhere adding nothing to the "suspense" or the plot. Did I say plot? Oh yes. The cherry on the cake is a blood drained corpse with rosy cheeks.

It's the kind of film that you keep watching in hope that you might find some redeeming feature. Fageddaboudit! How do they get funding for such embarrassing trash? Let me guess. Could it be from the Canadian taxpayer?

Jill Roperson (Melissa Joan Hart) joins her cousin Patti McMullen on a trip to an island village to see a guy Kevin Watson. Patti's purse almost gets snatched. Kevin takes Patti to see Dr. Faye Croft. Both Jill and Patti have especially strong genes. Jill falls for artist Chris Hammett. Patti is gone and Jill is told that she has left the island. There is a secret evil on the island and the villagers are keeping a horrific secret.

This is a Lifetime mystery but it should try more for a horror feel. It looks cheap and is a lesser TV production. The teases get a bit repetitive and tiresome. There is no tension. Melissa Joan Hart does her best but this is, at best, a second-tier Twilight Zone episode. This should simply be Patti missing with Kevin as the prime suspect for the first half. There should be no teases of the central secret at least until the midpoint.

What is wrong with the synopsis?? There IS no teen-aged son. I watched most of the movie waiting for a son to show up. Nope. Just the two cousins. Please edit the synopsis to reflect the TOTAL LACK of any son at all. The only people visiting this creepy island are the two maternal cousins, and even that was confusing, because I thought they were (unrelated) friends.