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A Father's Nightmare (2018) is a English movie. Vic Sarin has directed this movie. Annabeth Gish,Jessica Lowndes,Ana Golja,Joel Gretsch are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. A Father's Nightmare (2018) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Lisa, a college freshman on a gymnastics scholarship, is surprised to find her new roommate is not a fellow gymnast, but Vanessa, an older, more experienced girl. As the new roommates bond, Vanessa becomes increasingly manipulative, playing Lisa against her teammates, undermining her confidence and making Lisa emotionally dependent on her. Though he's kept at a distance, Lisa's father Matt senses trouble, especially as Lisa's behaviour becomes more erratic after Vanessa introduces her to an expanding cocktail of "performance enhancing" prescription drugs. Stymied by the school's administration, Matt takes matters into his own hands, investigating Vanessa's identity. As Vanessa pushes Lisa to the brink of suicide after she faces a drug test and potential expulsion, Matt makes a shocking discovery and must confront a secret from his past in order to save his daughter.
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A Father's Nightmare (2018) Reviews
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This is a great follow up to "A Mother's Nightmare" one of the better LMN thrillers. The psycho is back and her victim is a vulnerable female gymnast in college. Her tactics are quite scary to watch as she alienates her victim from friends and family and undermines her self confidence. Things escalate in a way that is scarily realistic. Jessica Lowndes is beautiful and a good actress who can do both romance and thrillers. Plus hear her sing! There is a nice explanation for the psycho's background unlike some other LMN movies. Quite a good warning for kids - there are so called friends who don't have your best interests at heart. Listen to warnings from family members who care about you.
The best Lifetime movie ever written.
"A Father's Nightmare" is perhaps the absolute best film I've ever come across on the Lifetime Movies network. Suspenseful, heartbreaking, original, well-written, and superbly well-acted, this story was something that I'd have expected to see on the big screen instead of TV. Brilliant.
Jessica Lowndes is very good at being evil.
However, I figured out the twist pretty early. I've never seen A Mother's Nightmare, so I didn't have that for context beyond reading some reviews here, but once she said her father abandoned her, I had an inkling. . This didn't ruin the movie at all for me, Vanessa was still super creepy and crafty, but that was like a blaring siren. There's another Lifetime movie with Shiri Appleby where a character (the eventual villain) is acknowledged to be the adopted sibling so it was the same kind of light bulb for me. Plus, the movie opens up with her requesting Lisa as a roomie, so it's clear she targeted Lisa for a specific purpose. Now the one thing I think the movie missed as an opportunity is that while she did her best to alienate and destroy Lisa, as crazy as she is, it didn't seem like she was really targeting (their) father. Sure hurting Lisa hurts Dad, but IDK, she never let on her contempt and hatred of him. He did say something like "don't I know you," in the beginning but after all that time whether he'd recognize her as his daughter is anyone's guess. But one would think she'd either favor him or her mother who he was married to. The mom showing up as a deus ex machina was weird. How they knew she was still alive after a suicide attempt and 20+ years kinda stretched disbelief when the movie kinda didn't ask us to for most of it. But this is a good thriller from Lifetime. I've been a fan of JL since 90210 and now enjoy her Hallmark movies. She was the reason I watched. Her character was creepy right up to the end.