Girl in the Closet

Terrible acting, horrible...almost painful to watch. The plot could have turned into a good movie but the acting was so bad, it felt like I was watching a bad high school play. I tried. I really tried. But 30 minutes in and it just got worse and worse. I really want to know who watched this and went yes, this is good stuff. Everything was also very choppy and utterly unbelievable.

I didn't finish it and wouldn't waste my time if I were anyone else considering this movie. It's also called girl in the closet but there was no closet, it was a basement. I understand that these aren't meant to be blockbusters but if I could rate this a zero I would.

Today i wanted to watch a horror movie so logged onto hulu and found this movie, I turned on the movie expecting a much different timeline of events, hell i was thinking it was going to be like children under the stairs. But it is no where near that this movie (in my opinion) plays out horrifically and for a first tine watch it is horrific to see what those girls were put through i still have 30 minutes remaining in this movie and i could not image how any victim of trhis went through and lived through this torture and i pray for you. This is a heartbreaking and heart wrenching story to watch unfold and as of the mother of the group she is a favorite character of mine.

This Lifetime movie is not fleshed out really well, but it's the idea and transferences that are pretty gripping and gritty. Suspend a little disbelief on the captivity plausibility issues before going in. To be fair, this concept has been done better several times, and on higher budget. A familiar variation to Girl in the Basement but still different, and still heartbreaking to know that this kind of trafficking is real, and in turn, inspires stories based on it. The acting is not academy award stuff, but if you level set on expectations going in, some might find this to be worth a watch. It's probably not going to brighten your day though.. depressing subject matter for sure.

All the ignorant people that have reviewed this movie plot as not good, or it's dumb because of plot holes, could have had this or that.... HELLO, it's a based on a TRUE STORY. They actually did a really good job at getting super close to the actual events!

I'm confused how the people writing the reviews on here don't do any sort of research before running their mouths?

Besides that the movie was very good, though very sad. They put in, surprisingly, many true details of the real story. If you are watching the movie at any point and think this is too ridiculous, well, the real story is even more horrific. People didn't run away, she did have extreme control, and everything in the movie happened, plus more, but they had to put years of horrors into about 2 hours.

Sadly the real story is even worse than the movie.

If you are curious of the real story, I suggest watching the movie, and then looking into the real story on Linda Ann Weston. Ignore the reviews on here from people who choose to foolishly speak. It's obnoxious.

The acting is NOT that great. The story has the girls leaving the house for other chores and to put out the trash - as if they cannot escape and they have them move from house to house and yet the basement looks the same. Firstly they need to change the title. It is just a badly done movie. It is a similar story to the girl in the basement but that had a good story and was well execute. When these movies are made - quite often there are details that do NOT make sense. And the little girl grew up in 6 yrs to a different age and she does NOT look at all like the little girl she was at least some similiar features...