Sinister Seduction (2019) User Reviews

Weak premise

[phd_travel · 3/10 · 15 October 2019]

This movie is quite nicely filmed. The story is fairly involving at first but the premise doesn't hold up in the end. Such a convoluted way to get revenge on the woman for destroying his family. Sleeping with her and being nice to her son? Anyway these movies aren't known for logic. All that to get back at her? The wacko is a bit short and too much smaller than the nerdy guy he is supposed to be helping. The main actress is a bit unsympathetic. Affair when married and then sleeping with a teenager.

Not worth watching.

Good plot but disappointed...

[karrickc · 3/10 · 20 September 2020]

So the plot was a great one to explore . You've got love, betrayal, and murder but some of the actors fall real short on delivering the end product here to drive the plot home to the viewer. The character of Dylan did very well playing the villain... sexy, mysterious, yet definitely on the crazy train. However, the main character of Sharon (the mom) was absolutely horrifying trying to watch as she tried to deliver the same to the audience. I've literally watched paint dry more enthusiastically than the performance that actress tried to put on. Same with the son, Anthony. He had good moments, but most of it was dry and hard to get through. The actor who played Dylan... could have more of a breakout performance for home if he had a better cast to support him.

Could have been better with better actors

[mathewskarina · 4/10 · 10 February 2023]

If it wasn't for Tanner, this entire film should have been thrown out. The actress playing sharon is so so soooo terrible, she makes vacuuming seem more enjoyable than her performance. I honestly think this whole film would have been a lot better if there were more experienced actors. Tanner had to carry it out and with no support. He was the only one who didn't appear like he was reading his lines. As for the actress playing sharon, she should just quit... forever. She is emotionless, awkward, and completely unnatural. Teddy, he does this annoying thing with his hands and constant head turning. Even the bully could have used more work. Dylan did a descent job playing his role and can get you to believe him being this seductive villain. Other than that, they all suck.

Poor casting

[paulamclennan · 1/10 · 9 September 2021]

Whoever cast the young man who looks around 12 years old for the villain of the film should be sacked. Poor acting throughout and at times uncomfortable and unrealistic to watch.

Single Superstar

[frukuk · 2/10 · 20 March 2020]

Well there really isn't much of a story here, the script is poor and most of the performances are pretty weak, but this is almost worth watching for the convincing performance of Kristina Klebe; it's a shame they couldn't have constructed a much better film around her.

Not Great

[diego-99807 · 3/10 · 7 March 2021]

It seems to me like a long My friend hot Mom episode by Naughty America, without explicit scenes. I don't judge the acting but the plot it's not great, I found it hard to watch it entirely. I guess it's just a TV movie. Also I don't understand why the title on the label it's Cruel Fixation and in the movie it's sinister seduction

Sinister Seduction

[LifetimeUncorkedPodcast · 3/10 · 17 October 2019]

Standard Lifetime fair. I did not see the appeal of Dylan. (Canadian Johnathan Taylor Thomas?)

🍷🍷🍷🍷 (4 glasses of wine required)

Shoulda been called "Mama Can't Keep it in Her Pants"

[hoops-53436 · 2/10 · 19 January 2023]

Wow. After hundreds of Lifetime Movies, most of which feature women who jump into bed with someone she only met a few minutes ago, this one left us dumbfounded. We find out early that "Sharon" had an affair with another real estate agent while her husband was still alive. Not long after she has intercourse with a high school friend of her son. Willingly, I might add. Then she does it again- quite willingly. SMH "Dylan" was totally unbelievable- both as a villain...and as a mama lover. Casting on him was laughable.

Plot was weak and the premise behind all of this was, at best, questionable. To believe that a kid would go to all those extremes to avenge an unrequited love of his father's is too much of a stretch.

Don't waste your time on this one...

Nooooooooo

[svader · 1/10 · 20 October 2020]

Was this for real.

The dialogue was as if they were reading the script.

It was awful

Terrible acting.

Annoying so who I guess was 18 going on 10? First date with his wanna be girlfriend and he takes her to the equivalent of Macdonald's . . .omg I laughed so loud at that.

Very childish movie for simpletons

Dylan: The Beast

[lavatch · 8/10 · 3 September 2020]

Sharon Elliott is nothing but a very complicated woman. At one critical juncture in "Sinister Seduction" (a.k.a., "Cruel Fixation"), she asserts that she is tired of taking orders from men. Yet, it is clear that she has always had a will of her own. During her marriage to the domineering health guru Mark, Sharon had an affair with her fellow realtor, then evidently completely forgot about him. In the meantime, her husband Mark was murdered, and the killer is still on the loose. It will be up to Sharon and the hapless detective Teddy Mills to find the killer before he strikes again.

Into Sharon's life comes a new figure in the form of a high school chum of her son Anthony, a boy named Dylan. Dylan is a genuine beast who is looking after Anthony who has a case of the freshman blues and is being bullied by a kid named Brent Kilby. It was never very believable that the diminutive Dylan could be a high school quarterback and the beanpole Anthony an apparent running back! But Dylan takes Anthony under his wing, and he also has his sights set on Sharon. In one of the most improbable parts of the film, Sharon begins an affair with Dylan the Beast!

At heart, Sharon seems like a compassionate soul, as apparent in her friendship with her co-worker, the realtor named Katie. Sharon is also devoted to her son, who she realizes is suffering from the loss of his father. Mark Elliott had written a bestselling book called "Pro-All Lifestyle," that is an essential reference point in the film. Mark was a hard-driving husband and father, and the mother and son bonded around a more gentle, sensitive approach to life. Egged on by Dylan the Beast, Sharon tears the pages out of Mark's book.

Sharon would appear to be breaking out of her shell from a former life where her husband always came first. Her confidante Katie actually describes Mark as "inhuman." At the same time, Sharon has not yet overcome her serious boundary issues that leads her into a dysfunctional affair with Dylan the Beast. It will be up to the viewer to conclude if, by the end, Sharon has progressed beyond merely offering her cop friend Teddy a morning doughnut, or if she is finally prepared for an adult relationship.

I concur with LifetimeUncorkedPodcast

[JmeCasS · 1/10 · 28 October 2019]

The movie is your typical Lifetime movie with a single parent and a troubled child (that is not the single parents child). Movie takes place in an upper middle class community and at a Highschool that looks like a private University (due to the size). Single parent sleeps sons troubled friend...... Single parent regrets it. Troubled teen goes nuts. CUE Typical ending: Single parent and child holding one another CRYING HYSTERICALLY and happy to have one another ((after something happens to troubled teen (don't want to spoil ending) due to single parents lack of judgement)) because of everything that justed happened after the sLifetimeUncorkedPodcastcenrio escalated quickly prior to ending.

This whole thing could've been avoided if single parent wasn't attracted to ugly "Canadian (younger version) Jonathan Taylor Thomas" ((as LifetimeUncorkedPodcast posted.)) I could see that happening if "said" troubled teen looked like the kid IAN from the Lifetime movie "Sleeping with my Student." 2019

Garbage

[fluffchop · 1/10 · 8 November 2021]

This movie only works with a hot chick as the villain. This is just ghey. We've all seen this movie before 100 times over. There is nothing new here. It's boring and uneventful.

Poor Storlyline , Poor Acting

[carolynocean · 2/10 · 26 March 2021]

The plot here was , to be blunt, fairly silly and childish. How many times have we seen the same type of story , but executed badly here.

I mean, Sharon the mother, lets be honest, is she that easily enticed? , and by a teenager ! It didnt seem to phase her at all that he was her sons's bestie ( or so he thought ). Most normal adult women do Not do that ! This is typical of the bad writing throughout this movie.

The whole thing was just lame , and the ending? Big Sigh .................. Need I say more !