A woman and her adopted daughter move in to an old inn and want to fix it up to be a bed and breakfast. In the past the previous owners had a little girl fell down the stairs and died. The mother of the dead girl returns and pretends to be a guest. She proceeds to chase away all the other guests. What she wants is to get the little girl for herself. The premise is alright. Things get boring after a while. Amusing way the wacko goes from crazy to normal looking. Not a must watch.
10 Reviews
Inn Trouble!
LifetimeUncorkedPodcast11 May 2020
Taking a Hallmark Movie staple and putting a Lifetime spin on it sounds awesome! This movie had a great idea but was poorly executed.
You know you have a problem when the child actor is the best actor in your movie. The actor who portrayed Ava cried REAL TEARS and was excellent.
Robyn and Drew (when he was shirtless) we Lifetime good, but everyone else was awful. Also, the depiction of mental health in this movie was problematic.
You know you have a problem when the child actor is the best actor in your movie. The actor who portrayed Ava cried REAL TEARS and was excellent.
Robyn and Drew (when he was shirtless) we Lifetime good, but everyone else was awful. Also, the depiction of mental health in this movie was problematic.
"Mother Murderers No. 7"
lavatch30 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
In "Deadly Inn" (a.k.a., "Home Invaders"), one has to feel for poor Robyn Flynn. She adopted little Ava after the death of the girl's mother Tashi, who was Robyn's best friend. She has now moved to a rural part of Northern California, leaving behind a successful job in San Francisco. Robyn's single-minded purpose is to care for the little girl. But now, she is entering the twilight zone.
Robyn purchases an old Victorian manor, which she refurbishes into an attractive bed-and-breakfast that she calls the Lake Pines B & B. But her first customer is the deranged former resident Iris Janaway, who has come to reclaim both the home and the little girl she lost when, during a meltdown in an argument with her husband, she accidentally pushed down the stairs her little girl Sophia. In Iris's twisted mind, the dead Sophia has been transmogrified into Robyn's little girl Ava.
The film was largely unpleasant because Robyn was such a kind and caring soul that it was a wrenching experience to see everything in her world unravel due to the evil machinations of Iris, who checks into the B & B as the tenant named Beth Baronne. The only bright spot is when Robyn meets the local contractor Wayne "Drew" Aldrew, and the romantic sparks begin to fly.
But Beth murders one of the liveliest characters in the film, the character known as "The Professor," who is writing a story in his "Mother Murderers" series. This seventh story is the that of Iris Janaway whom the professor discovers is sharing space with him in the B & B. After Beth kills the professor, she skillfully pins the blame on Drew. The film moves to its nadir of unpleasantness when Beth kills the kind nurse and mother of two, Erica Berman. Mrs. Berman also takes a tumble down the stairs courtesy of Beth.
The filmmakers attempt to bleed irony as far as it will go when Beth herself topples down the stairs, receiving retributive justice when she is paralyzed. It is unfortunate that the unlucky professor did not live to see his dream fulfilled of having his hack story "Mother Murderers No. 7" reach its apogee in this made-for-television potboiler.
Robyn purchases an old Victorian manor, which she refurbishes into an attractive bed-and-breakfast that she calls the Lake Pines B & B. But her first customer is the deranged former resident Iris Janaway, who has come to reclaim both the home and the little girl she lost when, during a meltdown in an argument with her husband, she accidentally pushed down the stairs her little girl Sophia. In Iris's twisted mind, the dead Sophia has been transmogrified into Robyn's little girl Ava.
The film was largely unpleasant because Robyn was such a kind and caring soul that it was a wrenching experience to see everything in her world unravel due to the evil machinations of Iris, who checks into the B & B as the tenant named Beth Baronne. The only bright spot is when Robyn meets the local contractor Wayne "Drew" Aldrew, and the romantic sparks begin to fly.
But Beth murders one of the liveliest characters in the film, the character known as "The Professor," who is writing a story in his "Mother Murderers" series. This seventh story is the that of Iris Janaway whom the professor discovers is sharing space with him in the B & B. After Beth kills the professor, she skillfully pins the blame on Drew. The film moves to its nadir of unpleasantness when Beth kills the kind nurse and mother of two, Erica Berman. Mrs. Berman also takes a tumble down the stairs courtesy of Beth.
The filmmakers attempt to bleed irony as far as it will go when Beth herself topples down the stairs, receiving retributive justice when she is paralyzed. It is unfortunate that the unlucky professor did not live to see his dream fulfilled of having his hack story "Mother Murderers No. 7" reach its apogee in this made-for-television potboiler.
Seriously?
solitaire-7748811 February 2019
This movie is a waste of 2 hours of life. The acting is pathetic and the storyline is ridiculous. I felt my brain cells begging me to stop killing them. I would give it a negative 10 if I could. Who the heck is stupid enough to drop money making something so moronic is beyond me.
Bad Lifetime Movie
amgee-8955121 September 2018
The plot for this film is so stupid it's untrue. Some of the acting is really cheesy. I don't recommend this film. Do me an flavour don't waste your time watching this you should watch a better lifetime movie because there are some good ones out there. 1/10
Shockingly bad
wayneradams20 April 2020
Entertaining enough...
katsumibear2 December 2018
By no means the best of what lifetime has to offer but I enjoyed it. The adopted daughter aspect gave it a little charm and I even found myself slightly touched by the romance aspect of the film. This however, is a thriller and it leaned more to the so bad it's good thriller territory instead of actual thrills. It had a decent body count, an antagonist that's just the right amount of crazy to make you chuckle. Overall not bad. It had a couple slow moments but not a bad flick when nothing else is on. Oh, keep your eyes open for the "hospital". Just throw some hospital screens next to the wall of this fancy building and put some guys in scrubs and we got a hospital. Hilarious.
Pretty lame.
CranberriAppl12 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
First off, someone on set should have made sure the beginning scene made sense. At no point was it clear that dropping a bottle of pills instantly meant the young daughter slipped and fell down the stairs. (they correct this about thirty minutes in, but it still makes for a confusing opening scene).
This lovely Victorian house on a hill would have been perfect for a gothic/horror version of this story. Creepy old house where someone died...could have been awesome with more effort. But the cheesy music, bad acting (from everyone but Ava) makes this story hard to see as anything but campy. Not to mention a guy gets hit by a car and the truck doesn't even stop. How do you not know you hit someone/something on a residential street? Robyn wanting to drive with a concussion just so the movie can get Ava alone with Beth/Iris (thankfully she didn't) Although if she didn't go pick up the guest, she should have read Ava a story like the kid asked. What kind of abandoned hospital is that? A ton of kids at a school we don't get scenes in, but Erica the nurse is the only one in a hospital when she's murdered. And yet the next day crime scene has all kinds of people in scrubs and lab coats standing around. The night shift at a hospital doesn't mean the place is empty. Not to mention the patients are wandering around? So much nonsense in this movie that I'm annoyed that I finished it.
Beth/Iris doesn't have a therapist as a condition of her release? This Lifetime Keira Knightley lurks around, overacts, kills like crazy and literally nobody is connecting easy dots. I actually stopped myself from laughing at the Beth trying to come through the door with a saw. Robyn is yet another dumb protag...not even questioning why all but one guest has been driven off. She also went from the beginning of the movie claiming that the little girl is her everything to brushing her off more than a little bit. She doesn't know Beth and yet allows the kid around her all the time.
Also both Beth/Iris and Robyn's makeup made them look jaundiced. Very inexplicably yellowish-green. No one else appeared that way. I also checked a different movie to see if it was my tv. Very distracting.
It's a joke of a movie. I do not recommend it.
This lovely Victorian house on a hill would have been perfect for a gothic/horror version of this story. Creepy old house where someone died...could have been awesome with more effort. But the cheesy music, bad acting (from everyone but Ava) makes this story hard to see as anything but campy. Not to mention a guy gets hit by a car and the truck doesn't even stop. How do you not know you hit someone/something on a residential street? Robyn wanting to drive with a concussion just so the movie can get Ava alone with Beth/Iris (thankfully she didn't) Although if she didn't go pick up the guest, she should have read Ava a story like the kid asked. What kind of abandoned hospital is that? A ton of kids at a school we don't get scenes in, but Erica the nurse is the only one in a hospital when she's murdered. And yet the next day crime scene has all kinds of people in scrubs and lab coats standing around. The night shift at a hospital doesn't mean the place is empty. Not to mention the patients are wandering around? So much nonsense in this movie that I'm annoyed that I finished it.
Beth/Iris doesn't have a therapist as a condition of her release? This Lifetime Keira Knightley lurks around, overacts, kills like crazy and literally nobody is connecting easy dots. I actually stopped myself from laughing at the Beth trying to come through the door with a saw. Robyn is yet another dumb protag...not even questioning why all but one guest has been driven off. She also went from the beginning of the movie claiming that the little girl is her everything to brushing her off more than a little bit. She doesn't know Beth and yet allows the kid around her all the time.
Also both Beth/Iris and Robyn's makeup made them look jaundiced. Very inexplicably yellowish-green. No one else appeared that way. I also checked a different movie to see if it was my tv. Very distracting.
It's a joke of a movie. I do not recommend it.
Unbelievable from the start, but slightly entertaining...
DynaGirl063 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I could definitely see this one being on Hallmark or Lifetime. There are so many unbelievable/unrealistic incidents throughout the movie.
A fight in the BnB ensues and an entitled guest starts breaking things and even throws a potted plant out a window. As far as we know, no charges are filed and no fines to the tenants.
Our villain is arguing with a man and pushes him in front of a panel truck, perfect timing to get him killed. Of course, the driver doesn't stop.
About halfway in, a mother lets a guest pick up her child from school. There are a couple things wrong with that. First, you do NOT involve guests in your personal life. Second, a mother does not allow a stranger to pick up her kid.
Next, our crazy antagonist manages to film the leading lady typing her password into her laptop and proceeds to access it and finds a last will and testament.
If you can believe all the people are so naive and oblivious to clues or even have any common sense, you might enjoy the love story aspect. As for the drama, it was lame at best.
A fight in the BnB ensues and an entitled guest starts breaking things and even throws a potted plant out a window. As far as we know, no charges are filed and no fines to the tenants.
Our villain is arguing with a man and pushes him in front of a panel truck, perfect timing to get him killed. Of course, the driver doesn't stop.
About halfway in, a mother lets a guest pick up her child from school. There are a couple things wrong with that. First, you do NOT involve guests in your personal life. Second, a mother does not allow a stranger to pick up her kid.
Next, our crazy antagonist manages to film the leading lady typing her password into her laptop and proceeds to access it and finds a last will and testament.
If you can believe all the people are so naive and oblivious to clues or even have any common sense, you might enjoy the love story aspect. As for the drama, it was lame at best.
Crap!
haroot_azarian27 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
What a selfish idiot Robyn was! 3 times she let down poor Ava after promising her each time she would take her to the waterfall! For a millisecond I felt for psycho Iris. At least she paid more attention to Ava! Overall though the plot and acting were both terrible!
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