Thursday, October 23, 2008

LMN - Personal Indiscretions (Primal Doubt)

Yikes. This movie is certainly MST3K-worthy. Can I first say I love watching absolutely awful, cheesy Lifetime movies?

First of all, I have to say that this is one of the better ones. Top 5% and it was still terrible! Okay, so Janine Turner plays a stay-at-home wife romance novelist who is really bored with her marriage because her husband's a big time jerk (wow, something new for Lifetime!). So she decides to go on a dating website and have a look around. She ends up having what the police call a "cyber-affair" as they keep e-mailing back and forth, eventually leading to a face to face meeting for lunch. After the face to face lunch, they decide to meet again, where Janine sits in her car, arguing with herself in the rear-view mirror about how they're "just going to talk". She knocks on the door and no one comes to the door. So she decides to have a look around inside the house (trespassing) and ends up finding her cyber-lover-chat-guy dead in his home with his throat slit.

This is where the movie descends into everyone being killed, thus being labeled as a "thriller". It becomes a guessing game of who's killing everyone, whether it be the best friend, the therapist, the daughter, the husband, the maid, the movie even alludes to the girlfriend of the cyber-lover who committed suicide.

Anyway, this one wasn't actually the worst Lifetime movie I've ever seen. It was a lot better than most, although the acting was absolutely terrible. Janine's best friend, Holly, was especially annoying, her banter with Janine's husband was laughable at best. Janine also had her moments where she just looked absolutely dumb-founded, staring blankly at the screen like she couldn't even say her own name. It was actually pretty funny.

It's too bad that it was getting to late because I wanted to watch the next movie, "To Have and To Hold", which was EXCEPTIONALLY bad and cheesy!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

God all that cheese is making me hungry! OM NOM NOM! Who knew LeMoN and cheese went so well together?

Primal Doubt just sounds like a LMN movie. Too bad I don't have even a slightest Primal Doubt that the movie is awful. But then again, I'm sure it isn't Roger Corman bad. I mean, I'd rather watch LMN movies back to back than Raptor and Carnisaur 2 back to back. Cheese or leftovers? ughhhhhh.