What a creepy movie
I've watched this movie a couple of times, and i thought it was pretty creepy.
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I just saw it and I have to agree with the reviewer - it was poorly written. It didn't make a lot of sense, like why for instance the daughter gets so suspicious over the hug and seeing "Nikki" talking to herself with her mom's dresses that she disses her own party to investigate - these things didn't add up to the nanny being a menace. Just wanting to get to cozy with dad. A better twist imo would have been if Beth's necklace that she gave Fawn had engraving in it.
Well, whatever, the bodies kept piling up and I was losing count.
The Perfect Tenant, The Perfect Wife, The Perfect Bride, Maid of Honor, Her Perfect Spouse, and The Perfect Neighbor. The plot is much the same in all of these.
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"It says '1632'. 'Zat a year , or somethin'?"- "Chunk"
Any more low- budget clones to recommend? I love these.
Thanks.
C.
Tracy Nelson is in lots of low budget films check her page...Night Caller, The Perfect Tenant, The Rival. Also, Alexandra Paul has been in a few of these type of movies here lately. Erika Eleniak too.
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These are all PIERRE DAVID films! He is the KING of the Psycho Chick Flick! Tracy is pretty much doing the same role here as in Night Caller as far as I have seen in the past five minutes of this one, it just started, but Ole' Pierre's got me already! I LOVED that first one Tracy did, and this one's probably just as good.
This film was pure junk. Awful. Typical "woman in jeopardy" nonsense
produced for either Lifetime or Oxygen.
There wasn't a shred of suspense, and the writing and, especially, the
direction was as flat as a pancake.
There was also unintentional humor - lots of it. I roared my behind off
when the mother kept showing up - then disappearing - into the kitchen
while the unsuspecting doctor (who must've been deaf) is upstairs
"freshening up." (he "freshens up", is single, but has no interest in
his hot nanny. Is the doctor gay???). Helmond's death scene is a camp
riot. Love when Nelson drags her into the pantry (!) and the doctor
comes down and asks about the noise, Nelson says she "dropped something"(!!).
Also love the expression on the doc's face when he see's he's not alone
in the kitchen (Helmond looks like she's napping - and probably WAS).
A boring, unoriginal piece of TV junk. Only the unintended laughs made
me watch (while I was at work).
I agree. She is always in low budget films that require her to think out loud 90% of the times. Are Lifetime viewers too stupid to insinuate what the character is thinking or is the writing so poor that they think that every character she plays needs to vocally tell us whatโs on her mind every step of the way.
shareI'm surprised Barron's 33 when she did this movie, obviously she's supposed to be a much younger character - otherwise father Bruce would've been 16 when he had her, but at this stage in her careeer her youthful looks helped her still get away with playing teens.
shareAnd yet it had a quality cast. If you were a talented, experienced professional, would you really want to be a part of a p.o.s. like this? I'd quit the business first.
People never lock their doors in this town.
They will tonight.
What happens at the end? I missed it after watching the first half.
shareI'm watching it now and she's already killed 5 people, including her mother who she stashed in the pantry. She kissed the doctor and he pushed her away telling her he wasn't interested. She hit him on the back of the head, tied him up and stashed him in the pantry with mom. She tried to kill Fawn but she got away. She basically lost it when the doctor pushed her away. She tried to kill him and Fawn with a knife but doc talked her out of it (she has a thing for knives). He pretended to love her and she pictured him as one of those characthers in her novels. At the very end it showed her in a mental hospital and she's delusional. Last scene is her sending out wedding invitations.
shareIt is a creepy movie and Andrea is a creepy mind, as creepy as Christian Bale's character in American Psycho. After seeing Nikki kill the other nanny, I could predict Nikki's action when the lady friend of the doctor stayed for the dinner and talked closed with him. I know a woman almost as tricky as Nikko in real life, and I never want to see her, much less to stand near her. She is not as aggressive and crazy as Nikki, i.e., she does not kill anyone, but still she is too tricky and unpleasant to be around. I can predict her action the same way I can with Nikki in this movie.
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she wasn't nice to that doctor. ๎ท
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Just caught the last half hour. I was more surprised to see the actress who played Fawn was also from National Lampoon's Vacation.
The last half hour was actually kind of funny in a dark way. Reminded me of a low budget nighttime soap.