Nice little TV movie. I worked out the ending about halfway through, but it's a pleasant way to spend 90 minutes or so.
8 Reviews
Murder mystery
ksmccormack15 May 2019
Seriously?
hicuff@aol.com27 August 2019
Not very good, but could stop watching
cabcomp23 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This is a Lifetime Movie, so that should be a clue that it's not a great clever mystery.
These women own businesses, coffee shop, bakery, flower shop, yoga studio, clothing store...that's a good thing. What is completely confusing, is that during business hours, there is little business. Also there is a lot of free sampling, which I guess is supposed to bring in customers.....OK that isn't the main focus of the story, but it was pretty obvious.
The 'ladies man' of the story, seems to be the only hunk of the community, that all the female entrepreneurs are lined up to date. Then women are missing and he with the bad past is the obvious suspect...but it is so obvious, it's ridiculous....so we know it's not him.
At the 45-50 min mark you can figure out who the killer is. However you can't stop watching. So get your popcorn out and enjoy a little mindless TV.
He isn't worth it and neither is this movie
phd_travel3 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
A single mom and her daughter move to a small town. A man with a past likes her. As various bad things happen she finds out she has a rival for his affections.
One major flaw: the guy isn't worth fighting for let alone go all wacko for.
The way she shows her to be the killer is so lame.
Don't waste your time.
One major flaw: the guy isn't worth fighting for let alone go all wacko for.
The way she shows her to be the killer is so lame.
Don't waste your time.
Highly watchable TV movie thriller with superb photography.
rossmcfarlen15 May 2019
What I really liked about this movie is that it was filmed on location and not on a studio sound stage - and it shows, as the photography is stunning and really captures that small USA town charm where the residents have created that friendly community spirit. They're all a bit too nosey but that's part of the yocal charm, and we expect them to be overly curious when strangers roll into town.
The storyline is sufficiently compelling and mysterious and I liked the non-stilted, narrative-unrelated dialogue in this unpredictable thriller /drama.
The teenage daughter in this movie is very grounded and adult, and the actress playing her turns in a very good performance, as do the rest of the cast.
Well above average so I'm giving it 7/10 and I look forward to watching it again if only to drink in that lovely sunny Oklahoma landscape.
The storyline is sufficiently compelling and mysterious and I liked the non-stilted, narrative-unrelated dialogue in this unpredictable thriller /drama.
The teenage daughter in this movie is very grounded and adult, and the actress playing her turns in a very good performance, as do the rest of the cast.
Well above average so I'm giving it 7/10 and I look forward to watching it again if only to drink in that lovely sunny Oklahoma landscape.
The Only Man in Town
lavatch11 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
"In Bed with a Killer" (a.k.a., "A Deadly Romance") is a well-produced thriller focusing on Lena and her daughter Ashley ("Ash"), who move to a small town after the death of Lena's husband. Both Lena and Ash are in recovery from their recent loss. But the small-town environment turns out to be their worst nightmare.
The beautifully maintained red-brick façade and the tidiness of the shops on Main Street augur well for Lena's new bakery. She meets other women who run the adjacent shops in the peaceful community with the sheriff facing little in the way of crime. In reality, Sheriff Hank is the town drunk.
The only problem with the town is that, apart from Sheriff Hank, who appears to be married to John Barleycorn, there appear to be no eligible males. The one big hulk at Jenny's yoga studio appears to be gay. The dynamic women, who all are single, are left to compete for the one stud in town, who is Hank, a former kick-boxer who had killed a man in the ring and now runs the local hardware store. With the rugged charm of "Hardware" Hank, the women are apparently drawn to him like moths to a flame.
As Lena and Ash are settling into their new home, a series of disappearances of three of the women entrepreneurs occurs, and the evidence points to Hank as the possible killer. The film turns on a small detail at the midpoint that points in a different direction than Hank. One of the most important clues may be a bottle of bleach.
The mother-daughter relationship of Lena and Ash was nicely drawn, as well as a subplot in which Ash falls head over heals for the neighbor boy Charlie, the son of the town's yoga expert, Jenny. But it wasn't very believable that virtually upon meeting each other, Charlie and Ash are billing and cooing and he is instantly invited over to her room.
Alas, logic does not always figure prominently in a Lifetime film. "In Bed With a Killer" had solid production values, good performances, and a sly sense of humor that culminates in the best moment in the film when Lena cannot help but breaking out in laughter at the most intense moment in the action. And the audience cannot help laughing right along with her!
The beautifully maintained red-brick façade and the tidiness of the shops on Main Street augur well for Lena's new bakery. She meets other women who run the adjacent shops in the peaceful community with the sheriff facing little in the way of crime. In reality, Sheriff Hank is the town drunk.
The only problem with the town is that, apart from Sheriff Hank, who appears to be married to John Barleycorn, there appear to be no eligible males. The one big hulk at Jenny's yoga studio appears to be gay. The dynamic women, who all are single, are left to compete for the one stud in town, who is Hank, a former kick-boxer who had killed a man in the ring and now runs the local hardware store. With the rugged charm of "Hardware" Hank, the women are apparently drawn to him like moths to a flame.
As Lena and Ash are settling into their new home, a series of disappearances of three of the women entrepreneurs occurs, and the evidence points to Hank as the possible killer. The film turns on a small detail at the midpoint that points in a different direction than Hank. One of the most important clues may be a bottle of bleach.
The mother-daughter relationship of Lena and Ash was nicely drawn, as well as a subplot in which Ash falls head over heals for the neighbor boy Charlie, the son of the town's yoga expert, Jenny. But it wasn't very believable that virtually upon meeting each other, Charlie and Ash are billing and cooing and he is instantly invited over to her room.
Alas, logic does not always figure prominently in a Lifetime film. "In Bed With a Killer" had solid production values, good performances, and a sly sense of humor that culminates in the best moment in the film when Lena cannot help but breaking out in laughter at the most intense moment in the action. And the audience cannot help laughing right along with her!
9/10 for the atmosphere!
AnnaPagrati31 August 2021
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