darkavenger77 Lots of classics and stereotypes here. Denny is a native American, as the line from the movie 'John Q' goes, he's a member of the slapaho tribe. He rapes and ganks a girl, utters the catchphrase "gotcha", and buries her body. The girl before she is ganked utters the stereotypical female in jeopardy line of how she will call the police. Didn't she realize when you are being attacked, the attacker will not stop so you can call the police? My early take was that he stays in shape by digging graves. Needless to say he's the Lifetime Psycho (LP) here. Body count: 1.I'll skip through the stereotypical rebellious teen and hands off parents to concentrate on the end which was really stupid funny (hence the high Lifetime movie score).Funniest line of the movie takes place when daughter/step-daughter Brooke asks LP if he is a psycho stalker and he says he is actually a rapist. +2 Lifetime movie points for that one.On Brooke's follow up call to LP, he is in the middle of having sex with Dana, but he drops her to take the call. LP stereotypically works his way into the family, but step mom has a bad vibe about him and puts in a call to his supposed employer. Somewhere in here he argues with Dana and ganks her the same way as the first girl, then buries her body. Oh yeah, she also used the 'I'm going to call the police' line while she is being attacked. Body count: 2.Step mom's follow up call is returned and she learns bad stuff about LP wile he is eating dinner with them. A big argument ensues and Brooke decides to leave with LP despite both 'parents' trying to stop her.At Denny's place Brooke sees a purse that belongs to Dana and wants to go home. He yells at her and slaps her again, then throws her onto the floor. I'm cheering for him: "Gank her, gank her!' We see now how truly evil Denny is- he is a tobacco user! Brooke is taped & gagged, and they go for a ride. Dana's brother Bryan calls and LP arranges to meet him, LP puts a serious beat down on Bryan, then curb stomps him, using his catchphrase from earlier. Body count: 3.The family figure out that LP is a convicted sex offender. They call Brooke, not the police (another Lifetime movie stereotype), and when step mom tries to call the cops, the line is dead- LP ripped out the line! Dad has a cell, but the plan is to go to the cops and call on the way. Meanwhile, LP has entered via a convenient unlocked door. Bro sees the door open and says nothing, closing it. As they are leaving, LP grabs bro and has a knife. LP makes dad smash his phone. Instead of going to the guesthouse for that gun, they comply and LP has step mom use some convenient duct tape to tie them up. He then knocks her out via a head butt and tapes and gags her.LP makes a call to his gun thug buddies to rip off the family. He has another talk with Brooke, who has been sitting in the car the whole time. After she sees what is going on, she is able to free herself in like 30 seconds. Should she run to a neighbors home? See if the keys are still in LP's car and go for help? Nope, she goes back to the house. Gun thug #1 is distracted by loud music. Brooke picks up a knife in the kitchen. Eventually Denny threatens step mom, uttering the catchphrase while she's at gunpoint. Brooke plunges the knife into his back, a fatal wound in other movies, but a scratch here. I guess the two gun thugs were on a union work break, but then there is a comedic fight scene. Step mom whacks Denny with a pan and then instead of picking up his gun, runs out the door. Brooke is now duct taped again. Step mom ran towards the guest house, uses some clippers aided by her large pecs to free her hands, and now has the shotgun, but doesn't know how to use it. Gun thug #2 enters and another funny fight ensues. She ends it when a convenient garden tool to gun thug #2's neck. Body count: 4. Another ridiculous fight in the garage and gun thug Jose is ganked by Brooke, bro, and dad. Body count: 5. A cop shows up out of nowhere and is ganked by Denny. Body count: 6.Denny uses the stereotypical talk don't shoot with Katherine and then Brooke who finally does something smart by playing Denny until dad comes out and is shot by Denny. Step mom has instantly recovered the shotgun and a standoff ensues with more talking on Denny's part and no shooting- seriously, he just ganked a cop and shot dad, why doesn't he just gank step mom? After some more fighting, to include a you can't kill the boogeyman move after being gut shot by a shotgun, as he is again about to gank step mom, Brooke hits him with his car.Body count: 7 (?) Denny was still moving.The next day all is well, no therapy needed, as the dysfunctional family that slays together stays together.One last point, a classic is LP driving a third generation Firebird. I was disappointed when he didn't have a Camaro and a mullet haircut. Had to deduct 1 Lifetime movie point for that omission.Real movie score: 2/10 (higher is better). Lifetime movie score: 8/10 (higher is stupider).

TheLittleSongbird Born Bad is far from a good movie by any stretch of the imagination- from this viewer's point of view anyhow- but it also could have been much worse. It does at least have two good performances, Michael Welch who is chillingly effective(at least for two thirds of the movie) and Meredith Monroe who makes for a movingly sympathetic mother figure. The production values are competent also at least, and the beginning rape and murder scene was very graphic and disturbing(which did give the impression that this could be a decent movie if done right), Lifetime's other movies are tame compared to this one scene. The rest of the acting is not so good though, the worst case was David Chokachi whose acting as the father was dull and veering on overwrought. Bonnie Dennison also doesn't have very much to do other than be all doe-eyed and naïve. And while Welch is fine for most of Born Bad, the final act was where the movie really started to lose steam and his acting became rather over-the-top with a lot of his lines literally screamed. Everybody else never get a chance to properly distinguish themselves. The soundtrack is rather monotonous and heavy, it rarely gains momentum and generally it's dreary and unimaginative to listen to. The characters are characterised and written stereotypically and with little development to them, and relationships between characters seldom ring true, especially between Welch and Dennison. Not helping them much is that the script gives them little to work from, especially in the final act it's lifeless and unintentionally cheesy(especially in the melodramatic parts), "he looks like an alright guy" is such a clichéd and cringe-worthy line. The story had a promising start but meandered very quickly, if anything it was here where Born Bad let itself down most. It lacked any kind of atmosphere, thrills, suspense and even total engagement, was way too rushed and was more predictable- incredibly so, you pretty much knew how the movie was going to end when it started- and hilariously stupid(somebody actually gets shot in the stomach and then they seem okay afterwards? Bad continuity that is) above all else. The direction lacks character and comes across as flat generally. So all in all, has its moments with two good performances, a promising beginning and competent production values, but mostly predictable, stupid, rushed, lifelessly scripted and just un-engaging really. 4/10 Bethany Cox

edwagreen The film had promise where a girl who dislikes her step-mother, meets a boy who seems to be the right guy for her. Of course, he has a terrible dark side.The film descends into madness and sheer terror once the guy finds out that her family is on to him. It becomes unbelievably violent as our culprit seems to have 9 lives.Violence abounds in this picture. Here we have a young lady who is defiant due to her dislike of her step-mother, who is pregnant by the way.We have the girl who realizes she has made a big-time mistake. Is it too late for her to rectify the situation?The picture also has the familiar tale of turning the tables.

tbadley451 This movie reminded me a lot of the 1996 movie Fear with Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon.The acting was also very good. I also had no idea when i started watching the movie that the bad guy in the movie was the same guy who was in the Twilight movies. In twilight, he plays a geeky character who couldn't hurt a fly.However in this movie he plays a very sadistic rapist and murderer. Very good acting from Michael Welch. He plays one of the most psychotic people I've ever seen. Plus he's also kind of hot. The last half hour is very thrilling and action packed! All in all a decent T.V. movie. I would be willing to watch it again if it was ever on again.