The Killer Downstairs

The main virtue is its predictability. You now, from the first scenes, the story and the film has the gift to not propose surprises, twits or other inovations. Decent acting, naive story, the expected end. You know everything from many other Lifetime filmes but , I repeat , this is , maybe, the only obvious virtue of the film. So, far to be a bad movie, it is just the film of its public. So, nice. And, off curse, so, so, so predictable.

Quite well done. This pretty current Lifetime thriller has lots going on. Cindy Busby plays a lawyer fallen on hard times and working in Costco like place. She rents out her basement. A seemingly nice man without his family as expected. Meanwhile she is sexually harassed by her boss. From the title you can expect he is the wacko in sheep's clothing.

Cindy Busby is quite suited to the role -looks smart. The look of this movie and the acting and cast are above average for Lifetime thrillers.

Alison Peters (Cindy Busby) is struggling after her messy divorce. The former lawyer is stuck working at a big box store and trying to make ends meet. She decides to rent out her furnished basement to a family. James (Marcus Rosner) shows up without his family. They have split up and he's renting alone. Her harassing boss gets murdered.

This needs to setup a bit more with her husband and her lawyer job. Why not show her ex getting her fired and reputation destroyed? He could also be the first victim. As a lawyer, she should be better at handling such clumsy workplace harassment. For example, she could put her phone down to record the restaurant get-together and claim it as part of building his case. As a lawyer, she should know to be careful when dealing with the cops and she is jumping to conclusion quick. The movie is simply not written at the smartest level especially with Alison. It's frustrating to have her always a step behind.

The futile attempt at a suspenseful and non-stop music score degraded the otherwise decent acting of the lead character the unemployed lawyer Alison (Cindy Busby) who rents out her furnished basement apartment to the hunky and handsome recently divorced James (Marcus Rosner).

As people who Alison Peters has had previous conflicts with start disappearing, her basement tenant always seems to be around to lift Alison's spirits. I wouldn't even call this a half decent timewaster, rather just an attractive landlord with a macho basement tenant who we discover rather quickly has a hidden agenda and the blah suspenseful music score is simply just irritating.

There is a cute GEICO insurance TV commercial where there is a bunch of scared loser ladies and men who say to the camera in the middle of the night "Let's Hide Behind the Chainsaws" that appear in the garage while the serial killer is shaking his head how stupid this group must be. If you don't want to feel like these TV commercial losers, I would suggest you pass on this non suspenseful waste of time.

I give it a less than stellar 4 out of 10 IMDB rating.

How one person could be so naive,while living with such an evil force.