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This is the film that got me addicted to LMN. Over the top, 90210-like drama (with extra murder) encapsulated in a glorious 2 hour package. Like its ilk, you can ignore the last minute or two of network interference, and bask in the glory of sex-crazed nunnery-sin with exceedingly pretty people and cheese galore.

Jason Brady is trying to clean up after an incident. He and his sister Zoe return to St. Adeline's Catholic School for the new year. Sister Sophia White is a highly recommended new teacher. She's especially obsessed with Jason over his internet music postings. She seduces the teen and plants evidences against the kids.

This is salacious cheese. It starts with the Toxic Tramp lip gloss and the red lingerie. Any suspense is dispensed with after the first fifteen minutes as everything is revealed. The story is predictable. The actors are perfectly fine but nothing exceptional. It's a bad Lifetime movie or maybe even worst.

Well, once you get past how ludicrous the storyline actually is, then "Bad Sister" is actually an entertaining enough movie for what it turned out to be.

But I am getting ahead of myself here.

I sat down to watch the 2015 movie "Bad Sister" from writer Barbara Kymlicka and director Doug Campbell without ever having heard about it. And given the fact that I've never seen it was actually sufficient enough to make me sit down to watch it.

And I must admit that I was actually entertained by the movie. Sure, it was predictable and generic, and the storyline was just so far out there and implausible that you just can't help but shrug at it. But the movie, in terms of being entertaining, actually managed to deliver well enough.

The acting in "Bad Sister" was adequate, and I found Alyshia Ochse, playing Laura/Sister Sophia, to actually carry the movie quite well with her performance as a rather deluded and compulsive maniac and stalker. I think I've seen her once or twice before, but she has never really caught my attention, but she did perform well enough in "Bad Sister".

"Bad Sister" is the type of movie that you know exactly what you are getting yourself into, what will happen and how the ending will be. Yeah, the movie was actually that predictable, and writer Barbara Kymlicka was definitely playing it safe by following a very generic formula.

All in all, I was entertained by what "Bad Sister" brought to the table, and I am rating it a six out of ten stars. While not an outstanding moment in cinema history, the movie was watchable and enjoyable enough.

'Bad Sister' has a wildly uneven tone. It ranges from petty plot pieces that would be right at home in a soap opera, like planting drugs and alcohol on people, right through to murder. The problem is that all of it is done in a completely uninteresting way. I understand these Lifetime movies have a lot of restrictions on them in terms of the level of violence, language and sexuality they can show, but all that means is that they have to be more creative in terms of their writing. Unfortunately this was about as cliché and unoriginal as you will ever get in modern film.

The character of 'Sister Sophia' (otherwise known as 'Bad Sister') was the only thing really carrying this. She was mildly well played by Alyshia Ochse, who definitely pulled off the sexy side of the character, and gave a decent dig at the evil side of things. She wasn't given a lot to work with in the script admittedly, so I'm going to give her a pass mark. Unfortunately, as far as positives go, there is nothing else worthy of mention here. An altogether forgettable experience that is not worth your time or effort.

Guitar-strumming teenager Devon Werkheiser (as Jason "Jay" Brady) is unhappy with "the units" (he means his parents) deciding to send him back to Los Angeles' St. Adeline's Catholic School for another year. Although he looks clean-cut and sings soft songs, Mr. Werkheiser has been quite the rebel. He even wrecked the family car, leaving his seemingly wealthy family with only one set of wheels. Werkheiser's songs are popular on the Internet, especially with sexy Alyshia Ochse (a "Sister Sophia White"). We see a little bit of her in the opening scene. We'll see a little more when a flashback fleshes out her introduction. In short, Ms. Ochse decides to seduce Werkheiser by substituting herself for a new nun at the school...

Looking snugly sexy in her nun's uniform, Ochse is challenged by a beautiful blonde who wants to get into Werkheiser's shorts. Ochse confiscates the girl's "Toxic Tramp" lipstick. Even better, she arranges for her young student to visit the nun's quarters and see Ochse in her arousing red bikini underwear. "Bad Sister" gets even worse, revealing old sins and committing new ones...

Werkheiser's real sister, also a student at the Catholic school, smells a rat in the nunnery and tries to help her brother get off the road to ruin. Director Doug Campbell and Barbara Kymlicka know their way around the track. They deliver the usual sexy psycho, with the bare minimum of flesh permitted on US TV in the early 21st century. This is nothing special, but it's more fun than nun.

***** Bad Sister (8/24/2015) Doug Campbell ~ Alyshia Ochse, Devon Werkheiser, Ryan Newman, Helen Eigenberg