Deadly House Call

Rebecca ends up taking care of rich investment tycoon, Warren Lockhart, who has onset early dementia. Trouble is she's after the family fortune and will stop at nothing to get it!!! This Canadian Lifetime movie was quite good! Definitely recommend!

So about 15 minutes into the movie I suspected this is a remake Lifetime movie. Thirty-eight minutes into the movie this was confirmed. The movie I am talking about is the 2016 Lifetime thriller Stranger in my Home starring Emmanuelle Vauglier. There are some minor differences but this 2022 movie follows the same lines as the 2016 movie. Not much else to say about it.

When I sat down here late in 2022 to watch the thriller "Deadly House Call", I did so without ever having heard about the movie. And I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to the movie, so director Max McGuire had every opportunity to impress and entertain me.

The storyline in "Deadly House Call" was fairly simple and straight forward, but it was not a particularly exciting or edge-of-the-seat type of thriller. In fact, it was actually pretty bland. So writers Kevin Anders, Erica Deutschman and Shawn Riopelle didn't exactly provide director Max McGuire with the best material to work with.

The acting performances in the movie was fairly good, taking into consideration the limitations of the script and character gallery. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, and that is something I enjoy when I sit down to watch a movie.

For a thriller then "Deadly House Call" just didn't cut it. Sure, it could be watched a single time, but that was also all there is to it, because the script simply doesn't have the contents to support more than a single viewing.

If you enjoy thrillers, then there are far better choices available. "Deadly House Call" is not a movie that I am going to recommend you to rush out to get to watch.

My rating of "Deadly House Call" lands on a four out of ten stars.

A busy working mother hires a nurse to care for her wealthy father, who has early onset dementia, but soon a bizarre deception creeps into play when the seductive nurse makes a play for the family fortune.

Lifetime/Hallmark mysteries get a bad rep, but I find them quite enjoyable, and a good way to pass the time. Deadly House Call is quite a good thriller, with a good villainess, though she looks so shady that she should've been sussed out long time. Her employer reckons something is off about her, but before she can follow up on her gut feeling there's a murder, a guy gets beaten up and her family are held hostage.

I finished it. The one thing that gets me with these movies is how after years of these kinds of plots, characters are still so gullible and trusting. There's nothing new here, but the movie kept my attention enough to see it until the end.