Night Nurse (2018 TV Movie) User Reviews

So so

[phd_travel · 4/10 · 6 September 2018]

A wack job nurse is the one in focus here. It's clear soon the gruff nurse is okay and the friendly one is the psycho out to get the baby for herself.

There is an okay reason why she wants the baby.

The ending has quite a lot of fighting but there are a couple of irritating things like how the Husband can't even fight the wacko. Another weakness is the typical stupid don't knock em out properly thing.

Not a must watch.

Too many implausible things....

[hoops-53436 · 4/10 · 8 May 2022]

The writers/director worked really diligently early on to try to make us think that Irene was evil and Katy was goody-two shoes. Didn't work. My wife and I figured right away the opposite. Many things are troubling, wouldn't happen in real life. Like the charge nurse at the hospital blabbing about Irene to Katy. Nah. Or why did Katy have to take Tricia's phone out of the room to charge. Tricia would have been saying "let's charge it in here." And how about Irene charging off to Tricia's house to confront Irene. We were telling her during her entire drive to not do it. Time to call the authorities. How about the two kids looking out the window and wondering if Irene was dragging a dead body? Were did that scene come from anyway? And the childbirth scene was beyond disgusting. Katy's derangement was absolutely beyond belief. And the fight scene at the end. Gosh, who came up with that crap?? Movie gets a 4 only because of Christie Burson. She's a tremendous actress and was truly Superwoman the morning after giving birth.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Requiem for a Good Nurse

[lavatch · 3/10 · 7 March 2021]

"Killer Night Shift" (a.k.a., "Night Nurse") started with an intriguing premise. Tricia Rosen has had complications in the final month of her pregnancy. Two "nurses" are caring for her at home while her husband is away on business. One of the nurses has evil intentions. The other has Tricia's interests at heart. The interplay in the triangulated relationships of Tricia, Katy, and Irene had great dramatic potential.

The most interesting character in the film was Irene, a nurse who was suspended from active duty at the hospital for stealing prescription drugs. It was never made clear whether or not Irene was taking the drugs out of desperation for her ailing mother. At first, Irene is a mean-spirited caregiver. But after she suspects the wicked intentions of the other nurse named Katy Lyle, Irene begins to have a transformation.

It was unfortunate that the filmmakers elected to eliminate Irene from the script at the three-quarters mark. After Katy brutally murders Irene and buries her in the back yard, the bottom drops out of the film, and the final quarter is routine and predictable.

Tricia finally starts to suspect Katy after Katy insists that she make use of a breast pump for milk for little Hope. But as the child has not been born yet, the request makes no sense to Tricia. From that moment on, Katy's evil actions surface, leading to the delivery of the baby that Katy covets as her own.

The film's denouement was especially disappointing. Tricia has returned to her podcasts of "Yoga with Trish." David has returned from Edinburgh. And the happy family is admiring the tulips that are rising from the ground in the spring. But it is a ghoulish moment for the audience to contemplate that the tulips are growing above the body of poor Irene, whose fate was determined by the psycho nurse and evidently never discovered by the authorities.

Strong in all areas, for what it is, very good.

[mark-179-360743 · 7/10 · 22 December 2018]

It's a straight to TV movie, so relatively low budget, yet this is a very strong thriller in a muchly overdone genre. Its well acted throughout, story is (suspend disbelief) believable, script is good, its well lit, well shot and well directed. All the leads fit their characters well. I'm only marking it down for lack of originality, the trojan baby-snatcher has been done to death, for the ludicrous body burying scene - in a movie which is somewhat believable throughout, this stuck out like a sore thumb, and for the nurse running out to confront the nutter. For the sake of a few days plot jiggling, this could have very easily been ironed out and then this would actually be one of the better films in the genre. For a TV movie, quite excellent, and overall, strong in all areas - considering I normally steer a wide berth of this kind of flick, I was impressed.

45 minutes in...I know who the villain is

[CranberriAppl · 27 April 2021]

It gets telegraphed pretty heavy-handedly so there's no twist. First off, the gruff/"mean" nurse was fired for drugs (first clue)....the nice neighbor nurse is pushy...too nice, always around and it's not really clear why she wants to be friends with the protagonist (Tricia) so much. Then the anvil drops...Tricia mentions that "nice nurse" will have a child one day and "nice nurse" gets all reflective w/the typical Lifetime background music and it's honestly a dead giveaway. After that, everything she does is so obviously a put on. Now I will say sometimes I do appreciate when Lifetime doesn't drag out the villain reveal, but as I'm watching it now, I'm dreading whatever idiotic things will happen before Tricia buys a clue.

One thing that annoys me about these nurse/pregnant woman movies, none of the mothers seem as protective or as hyperaware as you'd think given it's their first child. They are always mega trusting with strangers. Tricia doesn't know any of these nurses and even though the crazy one is manipulating her, the fact that she's not 100% aware of the medications she's taking is super dumb to me. She hasn't vetted either of these nurses on her own, yet she's giving Irene (the "mean" one) a hard time (and fires her after some egging by Katy). Katy, on the other hand, is allegedly a home nurse, but is with Tricia 24/7 and doesn't have her own patients? That's not a red flag? I don't think we ever see her doctor again after her emergency. I just don't get the stupidity of it. You would think that looking into one nurse would make her curious about Katy. But...nah. Now the nice and crazy nurse is overstepping by bringing a breast pump....ok, and now Katy has gone off the Lifetime deep end and offed Irene.

Another thing I hate is the missed opportunities during the big fight scenes. Why didn't the husband grab a lamp and knock Crazy Katy out while she was distracted? She should have in no way overpowered him. Why are there always endless syringes? It's so ridiculous.

The "twist," was unexpected, so kudos to Lifetime but it's nearly lost to the movie's cringiest version of Orphan's "I'm not your f-in mommy," moment.

I finished it because past a certain point, I felt I had to, but it's a z level The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.