The House Sitter

Tori Spelling, is an out of work artist who decides to house sit for a mysterious man and finds herself embroiled in a deadly triangle.

This pathetic excuse for a movie contained bad acting, a bad storyline and a bad ending, so if that is what tickles your fancy- watch this classic "no hit wonder". Not even valuable on $1 day at the local video shop. Buy an instant scratch-it instead. The story jumps from one problem to the next too quick and hence the storyline is too unrealistic. The story of events is not believable as the problems Tori's character gets herself into, are caused by her own oblivion to avoid the 'out of bounds' sections of the house(as per told by the owner of the house).

There's nothing amazing about this TV film but there's nothing bad about it either. The plot is no worse than many hollywood blockbusters I've seen. The acting is credible but nothing special.

If you want a lazy afternoon watching TV, you could do a lot worse than this film.

Tori Spelling, supposedly by now a grown woman in this movie, can't help act like a child of 16 in this shameless wife-husband Tori Spelling-Dean McDermott "vehicle" - that had all the trappings of such vehicles - poor story writing, bad acting, improbable scenarios, and bad decision making.

Hookup-friendly Spelling apparently can't resist hunky plumber Mike (Dermott) and, ostensibly only knowing that he's cute and a plumber, lets him spend the night in the house owner's house - free to rummage around and create mischief while she's asleep.

Then when house owner Frank becomes increasingly creepy and obsessive she bolts out the house - only to return later unaccompanied and taking her sweet time casually packing her belongings to get out of Dodge - while Frank is downstairs snuggling with a rifle.

When her friends arrive to "rescue" her, she and her friends decide they might as well stay a while in the creeper's house where a gunshot is heard and the carcass of probably the house's cat lies in the driveway.

Things devolve quite rapidly thereafter at the end without critical secrets ever getting outright revealed to Spelling.

While the movie is just as improbable as many Lifetime movies, it would have been better served with a much better actress than Spelling - who to be honest has none of the acting chops you would expect of a true TV veteran.

Yes. Watchable. But not anything Spelling should put in her "highlight" reel.