Vacation Home Nightmare
Familiar LMN theme: group of female friends rent a vacation house at the beach to lay in the sun and party. In this case, it was only ten miles from the lead character's house - so not far away, and her house was almost as nice as the rental, with pool and floor-to-ceiling windows, etc., as was her friend Alesha's house. It never said what she/Danielle and Alesha did for a living, if anything at all, but as usual with 99 out of 100 Lifetime flicks, young single women (and single mothers) live in expensive luxurious resort-style houses.
The plot is dumb: a guy is still upset over his marriage ending and the way his wife treated him, so he becomes a murderous psychopath based on his conviction that all women who get divorced due to their husbands cheating on them should be murdered as punishment - along with anyone else in their lives. At the end when he was about to murder Danielle, he was nice enough to take time out in his murderous rampage to explain to her the reason why: because she had the nerve to come to a vacation rental to have fun after she dumped her husband whom she had cheated on. Just as I was thinking, "Why would he care what she did? (and he was wrong about her being the one who had committed adultery) Is he related to her ex-husband or something?", she asked him the same question: "Why do you care?"
Like another reviewer said, there were plot holes that made the movie hard to follow. For example, it wasn't clear what Anton poured bleach on in the plastic bag that Danielle plucked out of the trash bin he put it in. Then she stupidly left it on her kitchen counter - a trash bag with evidence in it that was filled with bleach. Not smart to leave it anywhere in the house - much less on the kitchen counter.
Also, it never showed her finding out about Jack's murder. So up to the very end, when she said she wanted to put it all behind her and move on (which was a lot of death and craziness to sweep aside like mere dust under the carpet), she might have STILL been under the wrong impression that he stood her up and went away.
Justin Berti seems to be the new regular LMN male lead, mainly as the villain, since this makes the third or fourth one I've seen in which he's the main bad guy. He's certainly good at it and is the only reason I rated VHN above zero, even though his motive in this one is absurd.
Grade F / 2 out of 10.
Familiar LMN theme: group of female friends rent a vacation house at the beach to lay in the sun and party. In this case, it was only ten miles from the lead character's house - so not far away, and her house was almost as nice as the rental, with pool and floor-to-ceiling windows, etc., as was her friend Alesha's house. It never said what she/Danielle and Alesha did for a living, if anything at all, but as usual with 99 out of 100 Lifetime flicks, young single women (and single mothers) live in expensive luxurious resort-style houses.
The plot is dumb: a guy is still upset over his marriage ending and the way his wife treated him, so he becomes a murderous psychopath based on his conviction that all women who get divorced due to their husbands cheating on them should be murdered as punishment - along with anyone else in their lives. At the end when he was about to murder Danielle, he was nice enough to take time out in his murderous rampage to explain to her the reason why: because she had the nerve to come to a vacation rental to have fun after she dumped her husband whom she had cheated on. Just as I was thinking, "Why would he care what she did? (and he was wrong about her being the one who had committed adultery) Is he related to her ex-husband or something?", she asked him the same question: "Why do you care?"
Like another reviewer said, there were plot holes that made the movie hard to follow. For example, it wasn't clear what Anton poured bleach on in the plastic bag that Danielle plucked out of the trash bin he put it in. Then she stupidly left it on her kitchen counter - a trash bag with evidence in it that was filled with bleach. Not smart to leave it anywhere in the house - much less on the kitchen counter.
Also, it never showed her finding out about Jack's murder. So up to the very end, when she said she wanted to put it all behind her and move on (which was a lot of death and craziness to sweep aside like mere dust under the carpet), she might have STILL been under the wrong impression that he stood her up and went away.
Justin Berti seems to be the new regular LMN male lead, mainly as the villain, since this makes the third or fourth one I've seen in which he's the main bad guy. He's certainly good at it and is the only reason I rated VHN above zero, even though his motive in this one is absurd.
Grade F / 2 out of 10.