Bad Sister (2015 TV Movie) User Reviews

Generic and predictable, but still entertaining...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 9 October 2020]

Well, once you get past how ludicrous the storyline actually is, then "Bad Sister" is actually an entertaining enough movie for what it turned out to be.

But I am getting ahead of myself here.

I sat down to watch the 2015 movie "Bad Sister" from writer Barbara Kymlicka and director Doug Campbell without ever having heard about it. And given the fact that I've never seen it was actually sufficient enough to make me sit down to watch it.

And I must admit that I was actually entertained by the movie. Sure, it was predictable and generic, and the storyline was just so far out there and implausible that you just can't help but shrug at it. But the movie, in terms of being entertaining, actually managed to deliver well enough.

The acting in "Bad Sister" was adequate, and I found Alyshia Ochse, playing Laura/Sister Sophia, to actually carry the movie quite well with her performance as a rather deluded and compulsive maniac and stalker. I think I've seen her once or twice before, but she has never really caught my attention, but she did perform well enough in "Bad Sister".

"Bad Sister" is the type of movie that you know exactly what you are getting yourself into, what will happen and how the ending will be. Yeah, the movie was actually that predictable, and writer Barbara Kymlicka was definitely playing it safe by following a very generic formula.

All in all, I was entertained by what "Bad Sister" brought to the table, and I am rating it a six out of ten stars. While not an outstanding moment in cinema history, the movie was watchable and enjoyable enough.

Here Comes the Nun

[wes-connors · 5/10 · 4 November 2016]

Guitar-strumming teenager Devon Werkheiser (as Jason "Jay" Brady) is unhappy with "the units" (he means his parents) deciding to send him back to Los Angeles' St. Adeline's Catholic School for another year. Although he looks clean-cut and sings soft songs, Mr. Werkheiser has been quite the rebel. He even wrecked the family car, leaving his seemingly wealthy family with only one set of wheels. Werkheiser's songs are popular on the Internet, especially with sexy Alyshia Ochse (a "Sister Sophia White"). We see a little bit of her in the opening scene. We'll see a little more when a flashback fleshes out her introduction. In short, Ms. Ochse decides to seduce Werkheiser by substituting herself for a new nun at the school...

Looking snugly sexy in her nun's uniform, Ochse is challenged by a beautiful blonde who wants to get into Werkheiser's shorts. Ochse confiscates the girl's "Toxic Tramp" lipstick. Even better, she arranges for her young student to visit the nun's quarters and see Ochse in her arousing red bikini underwear. "Bad Sister" gets even worse, revealing old sins and committing new ones...

Werkheiser's real sister, also a student at the Catholic school, smells a rat in the nunnery and tries to help her brother get off the road to ruin. Director Doug Campbell and Barbara Kymlicka know their way around the track. They deliver the usual sexy psycho, with the bare minimum of flesh permitted on US TV in the early 21st century. This is nothing special, but it's more fun than nun.

***** Bad Sister (8/24/2015) Doug Campbell ~ Alyshia Ochse, Devon Werkheiser, Ryan Newman, Helen Eigenberg

Bland

[jtindahouse · 4/10 · 23 November 2016]

'Bad Sister' has a wildly uneven tone. It ranges from petty plot pieces that would be right at home in a soap opera, like planting drugs and alcohol on people, right through to murder. The problem is that all of it is done in a completely uninteresting way. I understand these Lifetime movies have a lot of restrictions on them in terms of the level of violence, language and sexuality they can show, but all that means is that they have to be more creative in terms of their writing. Unfortunately this was about as cliché and unoriginal as you will ever get in modern film.

The character of 'Sister Sophia' (otherwise known as 'Bad Sister') was the only thing really carrying this. She was mildly well played by Alyshia Ochse, who definitely pulled off the sexy side of the character, and gave a decent dig at the evil side of things. She wasn't given a lot to work with in the script admittedly, so I'm going to give her a pass mark. Unfortunately, as far as positives go, there is nothing else worthy of mention here. An altogether forgettable experience that is not worth your time or effort.

The quick version

[dws92642 · 1/10 · 20 June 2016]

I give this movie a 1 for story and a 10 for the beautiful Sister Sophia. A lifetime movie written by a woman with a last name that is pronounced like something you would see on an adult website. A beautiful wicked woman kills a real Nun and becomes a beautiful wicked fake Nun and seduces an airhead boy that she found on Facebook. The boy attends an expensive private Catholic school and sings like a girl. The boy has a twin sister and comes from a well to do family of four that only has one car. After having sex with the beautiful Nun, more than once, the boy has remorse and wants to end the relationship. He tells his sister that he only "slept" with the Nun. His sister figures out the Nun is a fake. By now, the fake Nun has killed a real Nun, a female student that the boy liked, hit the Head Nun over the head, and tries to kill the sister and the boy. The boy kills the fake Nun with a screwdriver to the back. The school gets back to normal and the boy and his twin sister graduate. After the graduation the parents give the boy a new guitar without a case that is in perfect tune and give the girl the family car for college, leaving the rest of them without anything to drive. At the end of this classic thriller,I was left with visions of Sister Sophia in her red bra and panties, alive and looking for me on Facebook. And the Pope was left weeping.

So bad, it's almost good, well sort of

[mhubbard-54657 · 4/10 · 9 March 2018]

This is hysterical camp, with circa 2017 eyebrows. Anyone with eyes can see this female is not a real nun, and that she likes sex. A lot. Really a lot.

No spoilers here, but it is strange that the evil sister is the only young and good looking "nun" at the school.

So strange that she doesn't know the basic conventions of the religion, ie praying before meals?

This bad sister is willing to go to any psychopathic extremes to get her "needs" met.

Overall, this film is a bad taste twist on the Catholic priests of great notoriety, who preyed mostly on little boys.

The film depicts a "relationship" between a "nun" and a young man of indeterminate age, but well past puberty.

Lifetime movies at its' very best, or worst, depending on your point of view.

Save your time and don't watch it!

[zbarca · 3/10 · 23 December 2018]

Well, as a summary, it's about a facebook stalker girl who liked a guitarist. So she decided to take the place of his nun teacher by killing her and teaching him instead. We then see that she tempted him to realize then that it was wrong. He later wanted with his sister to discover who she really is,for that they, and so ridiculously used her openned laptop to see her real name. Then the guitarist killed her with a screwdriver... super lame and boring tbh

Fun Stalker Movie

[aprilsfriendorin · 7/10 · 23 November 2018]

This movie isn't amazing or anything, but it's entertaining enough. It's perfect for when you're in the mood for something suspenseful and creepy, but nothing too serious. The acting is pretty decent for a Lifetime movie. I would recommend giving it a chance if you're looking for something simple and entertaining. If you're looking for an Oscar-worthy film, then keep looking.

Surprisingly bad

[zeleneobrve · 2/10 · 20 February 2016]

This has got to be one of the worst thrillers I've seen in the last few years. From the very first second of the movie we know everything - there's no process of audience gradually learning what happened and who the main character is - unless that's what they planned on doing with revealing her name at the very end - which, again, means nothing to us and has no value to add to the story line. At moments when I dosed off I was awaken by sounds which I could of sworn were coming from cheapest porn movies out there. And acting is bad as well. I can't say about other reviews here, maybe these kind of movies are their thing - but if not - skip this one. You're welcome.

Wacko poses as a nun

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 8 January 2016]

A nut job obsesses about a singer student in a Catholic high school. So she pretends to be the new teacher / nun and sets out to seduce him. Sounds exploitative and corny? Yes it does but who cares - it's entertainment.

The actress who plays the nun Alyshia Ochse is quite good reminds a bit of Olivia Wilde. Her antics are kept plausible. Nothing unbelievable even by Lifetime type obsession standards - yet they are pretty amusing when they happen. Sometimes it seems sacrilegious but then you have to remember she isn't playing a nun - she is playing someone impersonating a nun. Devon Werkheiser as the object of her affections is suitably tempted and repulsed by her.

Well done enough for this kind of thriller - wonder what other type of psycho they will think of next?

salacious cheese

[SnoopyStyle · 3/10 · 26 September 2017]

Jason Brady is trying to clean up after an incident. He and his sister Zoe return to St. Adeline's Catholic School for the new year. Sister Sophia White is a highly recommended new teacher. She's especially obsessed with Jason over his internet music postings. She seduces the teen and plants evidences against the kids.

This is salacious cheese. It starts with the Toxic Tramp lip gloss and the red lingerie. Any suspense is dispensed with after the first fifteen minutes as everything is revealed. The story is predictable. The actors are perfectly fine but nothing exceptional. It's a bad Lifetime movie or maybe even worst.

The Architype of Lifetime Movies

[Stu-24 · 8/10 · 26 June 2017]

This is the film that got me addicted to LMN. Over the top, 90210-like drama (with extra murder) encapsulated in a glorious 2 hour package. Like its ilk, you can ignore the last minute or two of network interference, and bask in the glory of sex-crazed nunnery-sin with exceedingly pretty people and cheese galore.

Good clean dirty fun in the best Whittendale-universe tradition

[mgconlan-1 · 7/10 · 4 January 2016]

After "Don't Wake Mommy" (and the previous night's disappointment from "The House Sitter") I was beginning to wonder if the formulae of Lifetime movies were beginning to pale with me. Fortunately the next one, "Bad Sister," was considerably better, a film that came from the creators of what I have come to call the "Whittendale universe" — producer Ken Sanders, director Doug Campbell and writer Barbara Cum-Licker (oops, I mean Kymlicka) — because the stories either take place at the fictitious "Whittendale University," a highly prestigious (and expensive) private college, or feature high-school seniors desperate for admission there. There seems to be uncertainty in the cycle as to just where Whittendale University is; I believe one film in the series mentioned it as being in Vermont, but the locale of this film is St. Adeline's Catholic high school in Los Angeles and the Bradys (Robert Leeshock and Lise Colleen Sims), parents of the juvenile leads, fraternal twins Jason (Josh Plasse) and Zoë (Jessica Honor Carleton), talk about driving there to see it over a weekend — which would be quite a long drive indeed. From the title I might have expected a romantic or professional rivalry between two sisters, good and bad, something like the 1931 Universal film "Bad Sister" (Bette Davis's first film and an early credit for Humphrey Bogart as well, in which — much to the astonishment of anyone who knows Davis from her later credits at Warner Bros. — Davis played the good sister and Sidney Fox, the Girl Named Sidney, played the bad one) — but no-o-o-o-o, instead it's a recycling of the previous Whittendale film "Dirty Teacher," but with the kinkiness level ramped up big-time by making the sexually avaricious teacher bent on seducing poor, (relatively) innocent Jason Brady is a nun, Sister Sophia (Alyshia Ochse) — or at least, as we begin to suspect well before any of the characters do, an impostor posing as a nun — who's been hired as a teacher at St. Adeline's after her previous employers, a Catholic high school called St. Valentine's in Missoula, Montana, gave her glowing recommendations. Only, as we begin to suspect from the moment Sister Sophia unpacks "her" conservative brown underwear and then the bright crimson bra and panties she really likes to wear — and the panties are not only considerably hotter but noticeably smaller as well — she waylaid and knocked off the real Sister Sophia and assumed her identity. Like every other bad girl in the Whittendale universe (which seems to consist exclusively of corrupt female teachers going after male students and nubile young girl students selling themselves to rich men to pay Whittendale's tuition), she's willing to do anything to get Jason into bed with her.

"Bad Sister" was good clean dirty fun in the best Whittendale-universe tradition, effectively directed by Campbell and mostly well acted; Josh Plasse looks way too preppy in his short hair and ubiquitous dress shorts to look credible as an aspiring rock star (though the songs composed for him by musical director Steve Gurevitch aren't bad at all; throughout the film I couldn't help but remember that Bruce Springsteen went to Catholic school, and some of his early songs have bitter anti-Church comments like "Nuns walk through Vatican halls pregnant/Preaching immaculate conception" that were clearly influenced by that experience, though the character cites Justin Bieber as his role model and his music is considerably closer to Bieber's than Springsteen's, while he sings in such a high voice for a man one of the other characters says, "You sing like a girl," and when my husband Charles came home in the middle of one of Jason's songs he said, "Why is he trying to sing like Tracy Chapman?") and the film would probably be more believable if he'd worn his hair in the Elvis-style cut of his IMDb.com head shot. Alyshia Ochse delivers a marvelous performance as the psycho pseudo-nun, managing indeed to come off like a 14-year-old parochial schoolboy's wet dream of the woman he'd like to lose his virginity to and maintaining her balance between her nun identity and her slut reality even though writer Kymlicka has her lay a trail a mile long, including not knowing the "morning prayer" with which she is supposed to begin every first-period homeroom class, and calling on the students to lead it instead. (One person on the IMDb.com message board wondered why she didn't bother to learn the morning prayer.) Sloane Avery also strikes a nice balance between her character's genuine romantic, as well as sexual, interest in Jason and her reputation as the "fast" girl on campus, as if she thought she could get Jason by making herself seem sexually available to every guy on campus. The actors playing the parents don't have much of a chance to do more than play the stereotypes — hard-assed father and relatively indulgent mom — and the other people on campus (except for Helen Eigenberg's finely honed performance as Rebecca) are pretty much an anonymous mob, but "Bad Sister" is overall a nicely entertaining, if frankly unbelievable, movie that's a pleasant time-filler as well as a good clean dirty exercise in the quirky kinkiness of the Whittendale universe.

Do not recommend

[alialian-44998 · 1/10 · 23 October 2021]

What the heck I've just watched !!

When you make a movie with 1000$ budget, the result will be something like this one ,I think.

There is nothing rational in this movie at all. Low-quality directing and acting. I really don't konw what to say, but whoever wrote the scenario, he has clearly shown us an extremely low experience in his job. I mean, for God sake, a 8 years old child would write a better organized scenario than this one.

cool i like and soo cool

[kkai-56582 · 3/10 · 7 May 2021]

So cool.i like it.so i 'm very like okokokk.my name is dasy and you nice to meet you.

It's a reminder to appreciate good cinema

[sara-yahya · 1/10 · 10 December 2022]

This is a good movie to remind us of appreciation the good cinema, And how bad people launder their money so easily.

I find that there is nothing to talk about in this movie, there is no acceptable story, there is no story at all, of course there is no performance from anyone, they act as if they are in thirties and each character had moves and speaks in a certain way and words.

As if film performance schools did not emerge or develop because the characters were not written well, there are no characters at all, only names.

Bad nun and student!

Oh my God, even the name sounds like the title of a disgusting sex video and that explains the poor writing level in this movie because Honestly anyone with a Little imagination can write better than that, and the question here is if this isn't money laundering, then why would anyone pay even $100 to make this?

Ned's Declassified Catholic School Survival Guide

[burgerman93 · 5/10 · 14 March 2024]

Probably could have been an anthological short story, but this served its purpose as entertainment. It ended up being a predictable and there weren't any surprises for the viewer. There needed to be more shocking thrills, but overall it was enjoyable.

I think the actors put a lot of chutzpah into this project and there were some casual scenes with romance and humor to keep the movie flowing seamlessly. Devon Werkheiser is highly talented as a musician and actor, and was able to work effortlessly off his cast mates here. Alyshia Ochse was great as a two-faced character: seductive yet deceitful.

It was OK I guess...

[Irishchatter · 6/10 · 2 August 2016]

I didn't find this the best thriller movie that I have seen because the movie looks obvious that its low budget. OK so it's a story about a serial killer who poses as a nun she has killed. Yeah, I think they should've made the character more sneaky and not just noticeable that she isn't a real nun. To be frankly honest, I think Alyshia Ochse's character needed to be more interesting. I'm saying this because she acted so awkward instead of being smart in being someone else. I know this is an underrated movie but they really needed to tweak things a bit..

I only watched this because Devon Werkheiser who was in Neds Survival Guide was on this and, I felt like watching a thriller film. I am disappointed in the character developments however. I'm giving this underrated movie 6/10.

Everything has its own limitations, even love

[goutambhowmick-63405 · 6/10 · 9 May 2021]

The story line isn't bad or good. The beginning story of this movie wasn't good, But the middle story and ending story was good. The movie has some adult scenes.

#personal_opinion_time:- 1. I think this movie is depend on movie lovers mood. So , I want you to watch this movie.

2. In this movie , you will see that A person murdered those persons who have stood on her way as wall and also to get her favourite person.

3. This movie is an adult movie, so this is not for below 18 people.

#Enjoy_ the_Last.

Saint Sophia? Or Toxic Tramp?

[lavatch · 8/10 · 5 July 2020]

Sister Sophia was recognized as "Nun of the Year" in Missoula, Montana. But as she was transferring to California to teach at St. Adeline's prep school, she was murdered and impersonated by a sociopath.

The predatory Sister Sophia imposter has her evil sights set on young Jason Brady, a student at the prep school with a lovely tenor voice and a promising career as a singer. There is an early scene in the film where Sister Sophia takes a tube of lipstick away from a student named Sara Croft. The nun experiments with it in her living quarters. The lipstick is appropriately named Toxic Tramp.

In this outrageous narrative, Sister Sophia has no difficulty in seducing young Jason. But it turns out that she has major problems in keeping him on her leash because he has a conscience. In one of the more inventive scenes in the film, Jason goes to confessional to admit that he committed fornication. But it turned out that he was speaking behind the screen to Sophia, who then switched over to the confessional booth to have a reprise session of fornication.

One of the most interesting characters in the film is Jason's little sister Zoe, a quick-thinking and wise-beyond-her-years kid sister looking out for her older bro. Zoe is suspicious right away when Sophia is unable to recount the morning prayer in class.

One of the best scenes was the bonding between father and son, when Jason spoke with his dad on a street corner bus stop. The father finally realized that his son had a calling as a singer and musician and even admitted that he was wrong in pushing the lad to attend college.

There was an excellent performance by the actress playing the vamp who is able to pull the wool over the eyes of Sister Rebecca and the school authorities. She took (or, more aptly, stole) the cloth because of Jason, in the process taking an innocent life and going on a rampage that seriously injured Sara Croft. It was due to the little sparkplug Zoe and Jason's conscience that the interloper was exposed as the bad sister.

***

[edwagreen · 8/10 · 7 January 2016]

We have seen this familiar theme before: Someone kills someone else and assumes their identity. The interesting factor here is that a nun is murdered and the killer takes on her persona as she has become infatuated with a musical student attending the Catholic school where the murdered nun had been transferred to.

The boy and his sister attend the high school and the former has had a difficult summer while the student is the honor student. We see deception upon the fake nun as well as planting drugs and causing all sorts of mayhem at the school. Even the head sister is taken in by her.

It is just a matter of time before she is discovered for the person she really is and the movie ends with an ironic Alfred Hitchcock-life way so ironically occurring within a church.

Great story

[hasnat_alam · 9/10 · 12 March 2020]

Excellent story & everyone played superb Ending was good too