Dark Angel

Heaven Leigh Van Voreen Casteel (Annalise Basso) is reunited with her newly discovered wealthy callous drunken grandmother Jillian (Kelly Rutherford) who doesn't want her to stay. Heaven has nowhere to go. Jillian's slimy husband Tony Tatterton (Jason Priestley) demands her total obedience. Tony's younger brother Troy designs the toys for the family business.

I got a bit confused with Heaven being 16. It totally screwed up the first movie for me until her reveal alleviates it a little. It would have made the first movie even creepier and Fanny's situation would be even more disturbing. Tony's revelation is just crazy. I'm not sure if Tony and Jillian are supposed to be the same age. It would make more sense if Jillian is a decade older. It seems to be a casting mistake. There needs to be a bit of clarity with all the dates and ages especially if the reveal depends so much on one year. It would help the melodrama. At some point, I'm expecting an evil twin in this series.

I've read the books and really hoped they would sort of follow. The big problem I have is the extreme changes and things didn't make sense. Scene storylines were sped up, almost like scenes were cut that would have allowed things to make sense in the movie.

I continued watching these movies just out of curiosity. One Of the worst things I've ever had to sit through. The casting was horrendous. The acting was even worse. So disappointed. Starting with the red headed Heaven

There often was no distinction, between acting and overacting, sometimes to the point where characters became cartoons.

Jason Priestly's performance, at best, was disappointing.

So Heaven moves to be with her rich grandma. A much better cast elevates this one over the first. To be fair to the actors everyone has to play a strange character pervert or witch. Jason Priestley talks strangely here. Kelly Rutherford looks and behaves like the rich grandma. Things are more fun out of the backwoods. Some fancier surroundings and a more juicy and gothic too close for comfort inter family relationship that comes with VC Andrews. This is the juicy one in the series.