I personally enjoyed this Lifetime movie. It was well written and plot was definitely a clever one.
A married couple who just previously lost their 16 year old daughter to a horrible car accident had decided to donate her organs. Months later they meet a young woman (Kelley Jakle) who had gotten their daughters heart. The wife becomes attached to her pretty quickly while the husband is more distant. They soon learn that this woman may be deceiving them.
Kelley Jakle played the part of the villain extremely well. Her rage leads to a few murders and a vicious attack.
Definitely a good revenge thriller
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Entertaining like most lifetime movies
beverlysharp10 April 2020
The movie mostly followed the basic lifetime script: crazy person tries to ruin someone's life, Vera just went crazy quicker than usual. I usually have empathy for the protagonist victims, but this couple sucked. I have to admit, I was kind of cheering for Vera. They were so hateful and just terrible people. That is why I gave six stars, because the 'victims' sucked so much.
Kelley Jakle is good but the rest of the film is just okay
solojere26 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Black Hearted Killers is a decent little thriller if you need to check your brain for 90 minutes, but it is nothing extraordinary either. The film follows Julie and Dennis Cummings, who, after the death of their daughter, are contacted by Vera, the recipient of their daughter's heart. Julie and Dennis tell them how grateful she is to have their daughter's heart. But the more time Vera spends with Julie and Dennis, the more she begins to cross boundaries. When Julie and Dennis ask Vera to leave, someone mysteriously ransacks their home and vandalizes their car. Determined to prove Vera is the culprit, Dennis and Julie investigate Vera's past and discover that her sister was killed in the same accident as their daughter, who was reading text messages from Julie while driving. Now, Vera is out for revenge and wants to make Julie pay with her life. The first two acts of this movie aren't bad, although the acting is a bit wooden at times. And I thought Kelley Jakle did a great job as the crazy psycho stalker girl. However, the film kind of falls apart at the end when you find out why Kelley Jackle's character is the way she is. And I can't help but wonder if her end goal was to kill them. Why didn't she do it earlier? She could've quickly taken them out earlier at their home. She isn't the only one who made bad decisions. Every decision Julie made was the wrong one. Also, the movie just kind of ended. All in all, it's a decent movie if you don't overthink it, but it is nothing great.
Yet another yawnfest from LMN.
rdhoran14 September 2020
Typical lifetime movie with an over the top, completely predictable, script. Unrelatable and hateable characters, unless you live in a $2 million house in a gated community. Everybody involved is rich and white and beautiful as usual. Really not much of a plot except one of the rich white chicks turns out to be psychotic...Oh, wait! That might not be a surprise! Gosh this channel produces such garbage I don't even care if my reviews are accurate anymore.
Dumb story and dumb characters
phd_travel31 May 2020
Juley: One of the dumbest protags of 2020 Lifetime.
CranberriAppl22 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Here we go again with a lead protag being naive and gullible. I just started this movie, so it remains to be seen if she's a gullible one that also gets people killed. A few things as I'm watching:
That very nice and very large house doesn't have a downstairs powder room? Oh that's right...how else would Vera snoop? Then she completely oversteps and goes into the daughter's room...and no one calls her on it. No one thought to verify that this is in fact the heart recipient? Jules offers her a job? You've known her for five minutes. But of course her cautious and skeptical husband is the insensitive and wrong one. He wisely mentions that she never mentioned why she needed a heart transplant and his dumb wife hand waves it away. If this movie continues like this, I might not make it to the end. The wife is already too stupid.
Vera steals from the dead daughter's room..."returns" the item along with a clearly manipulative story and this idiot decides her dead daughter would want the thief who invaded her space to have the item. It's obvious (bc it's Lifetime) that the dumbness is just getting started but I'm already annoyed. OMG...Juley is now paying her medical expenses? I feel for her husband but Juley, in the words of the oh so eloquent Arthur Fleck, is going to get what she deserves. I'm sure hospitals facilitate donors meeting recipients so wouldn't they have been involved in this somehow? I would think there'd be a liability factor if they gave either party contact info and everything went left. This movie is so silly and it's been 30 minutes.
This movie's "twist" was exactly as I expected. Was there any other option? I know we have to accept certain things in these movies, but do these characters have to be so empty-headed for anything to have drama and suspense? It's like they put forth the least amount of effort just to keep churning these movies out. There's another Lifetime movie re: a stolen identity called Dying to Be You that's soooo much better than this. The storyline is mostly different, but the way they deal with a person who isn't who they say they are was done better and it more naturally shows how a person could be fooled.
Another thing that doesn't make sense, and this goes for a lot of Lifetime movies...these people are not superhuman beings...how do they manage to lurk and stalk so many people? Are they omnipresent? Omniscient? How would Riley have known about Sugar? Also, they constantly want us to believe these tiny women can overpower any and everyone. It's ridiculous Lifetime and no one buys it.
The other somewhat odd "twist" of this movie is that for the cause of the accident to be what it was...there seems to be no tension related to that btwn Juley and Dennis after only six months. What mother knows her teenager is driving, yet texts her over and over and actually tells her to hurry up. It's just strange that the circumstances of the accident did not cause any problems within their marriage. I am glad that it didn't take the entire movie to realize what was going on, but at the same time, once they figured out who she was, it was a foregone conclusion that she was dangerous, so the murdering and the exposition on how deranged she is was a drag. I was ready for the confrontation. Also, by the time she does start killing people, why not show her face? We know it's her....?? Ugh, spitting is so gross.
Pretty abrupt ending to the climax so I guess the budget ran out. I think a nice touch would have been Dennis and Juley at Madison's grave with a fade to black. Honestly, I'm just glad the husband (the only sane character) didn't die. He's a very supportive husband. It's also not lost on me that Juley didn't apologize to him for inviting the psycho into their lives. This movie would have been better if Vera/Riley's "plans" were more subtle and more psychological. They could have played up the mother's guilt and that could have driven a wedge btwn the couple while Vera/Riley wreaked havoc and revenge before the discovery of who she was. C'est la vie.
I finished the movie, so 5/10 stars for that. Edit: I will say that the scene with the actual recipient and her family was nicely done. Juxtaposition is very rare in these movies, but it needed the contrast of the lies with the truth.
That very nice and very large house doesn't have a downstairs powder room? Oh that's right...how else would Vera snoop? Then she completely oversteps and goes into the daughter's room...and no one calls her on it. No one thought to verify that this is in fact the heart recipient? Jules offers her a job? You've known her for five minutes. But of course her cautious and skeptical husband is the insensitive and wrong one. He wisely mentions that she never mentioned why she needed a heart transplant and his dumb wife hand waves it away. If this movie continues like this, I might not make it to the end. The wife is already too stupid.
Vera steals from the dead daughter's room..."returns" the item along with a clearly manipulative story and this idiot decides her dead daughter would want the thief who invaded her space to have the item. It's obvious (bc it's Lifetime) that the dumbness is just getting started but I'm already annoyed. OMG...Juley is now paying her medical expenses? I feel for her husband but Juley, in the words of the oh so eloquent Arthur Fleck, is going to get what she deserves. I'm sure hospitals facilitate donors meeting recipients so wouldn't they have been involved in this somehow? I would think there'd be a liability factor if they gave either party contact info and everything went left. This movie is so silly and it's been 30 minutes.
This movie's "twist" was exactly as I expected. Was there any other option? I know we have to accept certain things in these movies, but do these characters have to be so empty-headed for anything to have drama and suspense? It's like they put forth the least amount of effort just to keep churning these movies out. There's another Lifetime movie re: a stolen identity called Dying to Be You that's soooo much better than this. The storyline is mostly different, but the way they deal with a person who isn't who they say they are was done better and it more naturally shows how a person could be fooled.
Another thing that doesn't make sense, and this goes for a lot of Lifetime movies...these people are not superhuman beings...how do they manage to lurk and stalk so many people? Are they omnipresent? Omniscient? How would Riley have known about Sugar? Also, they constantly want us to believe these tiny women can overpower any and everyone. It's ridiculous Lifetime and no one buys it.
The other somewhat odd "twist" of this movie is that for the cause of the accident to be what it was...there seems to be no tension related to that btwn Juley and Dennis after only six months. What mother knows her teenager is driving, yet texts her over and over and actually tells her to hurry up. It's just strange that the circumstances of the accident did not cause any problems within their marriage. I am glad that it didn't take the entire movie to realize what was going on, but at the same time, once they figured out who she was, it was a foregone conclusion that she was dangerous, so the murdering and the exposition on how deranged she is was a drag. I was ready for the confrontation. Also, by the time she does start killing people, why not show her face? We know it's her....?? Ugh, spitting is so gross.
Pretty abrupt ending to the climax so I guess the budget ran out. I think a nice touch would have been Dennis and Juley at Madison's grave with a fade to black. Honestly, I'm just glad the husband (the only sane character) didn't die. He's a very supportive husband. It's also not lost on me that Juley didn't apologize to him for inviting the psycho into their lives. This movie would have been better if Vera/Riley's "plans" were more subtle and more psychological. They could have played up the mother's guilt and that could have driven a wedge btwn the couple while Vera/Riley wreaked havoc and revenge before the discovery of who she was. C'est la vie.
I finished the movie, so 5/10 stars for that. Edit: I will say that the scene with the actual recipient and her family was nicely done. Juxtaposition is very rare in these movies, but it needed the contrast of the lies with the truth.
People Need To Have Their Proof Shown That They're The Donor Recipient To The Donor:
princessoftheringlizzie10 August 2020
So You're Just Gonna Take Some Strangers Word That They Are Your Daughter's Donor Recipient Without Looking Into It First. Are U Two Serious, How Dumb Can U Two Be. For One Thing, The Mother Should've Never Kept Texting Her Daughter While She Was Driving, & The Fact She Text Her To Drive Faster Cause It Was Her Dad's Birthday. She Could Have Pulled Over, Text Her Mom Back To Tell Her She Was Going To Be Late, & Never Would Have Gotten Into That Accident With The Other Driver & Gotten Killed Along With The Other Driver. So It's Not Just The Mother's Fault Over The Accident, It's The Father's Fault, & It's Their Daughter's Fault Too. They Have No One To Blame But Themselves, Over A Birthday Party They Wanted Her There Right Away & Didn't Need Her To Take Her Time. The Only Victims In The Whole Movie Is The Twin Sisters, One Innocent Twin Sister Getting Killed By A Speeding Texting Driver & 2nd Innocent Twin Sister Getting Killed By Getting Justice For Her Dead Twin Sister.
Better than most TV Movies
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Little Peanut
lavatch7 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
In one of the most maudlin moments of "Black-Hearted Killer" (a.k.a., "Heart to Heart"), Juley and Dennis Cummings are explaining to young Vera how their daughter Madison once rescued a little bird and nursed it back to health. Madison named the bird "Peanut," and the sensitive Laura has kept a box of memorabilia about the bird.
There will not be a dry eye in the house after the touching scene above. But little do Juley and Dennis realize that Vera could care less about little Peanut because she is an imposter and avenging angel set on destroying their lives.
The screenplay was especially effective in introducing secondary characters that would fill in the blanks on the missing details about Vera. One of the most moving scenes is when Juley and Dennis meet the Williamson family, and the grateful daughter who received Madison's heart. Through Bethany, a kind worker at the center where Juley and Dennis chose to donate organs, the couple learns that Vera is a disgruntled worker named Riley Leeds. From Sugar, a waitress at a dive called Heartbreakers, we learn that Riley has a violent streak.
The most creative revelation comes when Juley admits to Detective Quinn that she herself was responsible in part for crash because she was texting her daughter to "drive faster" so as to not be late for a surprise party for her dad. As a result, Madison was driving 60pm and crashed head on into the car driven by Riley's twin, Carrie Leeds.
Bonded and tethered together for life with her inseparable twin, Riley never forgave Juley for poor judgment in encouraging her daughter to speed up. But Riley's improvised revenge scheme did not factor in the parents who were still grieving themselves and had the fortitude to stand up to a diabolical monster, as well as to remember the moving story about Little Peanut.
There will not be a dry eye in the house after the touching scene above. But little do Juley and Dennis realize that Vera could care less about little Peanut because she is an imposter and avenging angel set on destroying their lives.
The screenplay was especially effective in introducing secondary characters that would fill in the blanks on the missing details about Vera. One of the most moving scenes is when Juley and Dennis meet the Williamson family, and the grateful daughter who received Madison's heart. Through Bethany, a kind worker at the center where Juley and Dennis chose to donate organs, the couple learns that Vera is a disgruntled worker named Riley Leeds. From Sugar, a waitress at a dive called Heartbreakers, we learn that Riley has a violent streak.
The most creative revelation comes when Juley admits to Detective Quinn that she herself was responsible in part for crash because she was texting her daughter to "drive faster" so as to not be late for a surprise party for her dad. As a result, Madison was driving 60pm and crashed head on into the car driven by Riley's twin, Carrie Leeds.
Bonded and tethered together for life with her inseparable twin, Riley never forgave Juley for poor judgment in encouraging her daughter to speed up. But Riley's improvised revenge scheme did not factor in the parents who were still grieving themselves and had the fortitude to stand up to a diabolical monster, as well as to remember the moving story about Little Peanut.
Black Hearted Killer
amyrenea-0708913 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I only watch movies like these on Lifetime. It was an intriging film. Kelley Jake was great at playing a villain. I actually felt sorry more for Vera than the couple. It's all the mom's fault and three people are dead.
Great Storyline
towhidmahee22 May 2020
Good and scary thriller
Chartreuse19 April 2020
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Couple's organ donor daughter dies in a car accident and her heart is given to Vera, a pretty woman, who meets the couple and insinuates her life into theirs. But is Vera really who she says she is? Good plot and strong acting makes this Lifetime movie quite watchable. We enjoyed it!
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