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The House Sitter (2015) is a English movie. Jim Issa has directed this movie. Kate Ashfield,Ashley Dulaney,Shelby Young,Sean O'Bryan are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2015. The House Sitter (2015) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
When Kyle Lawrence, his wife Sara, and their teen daughter Amy return early from their annual lake holiday, their housesitter Rebecca has no place to stay until her next job, so Sara lets her stay with them for a few days. Rebecca plays the perfect guest and housekeeping help, and even assists Sara with renovating secondhand furniture. But while the Lawrences were gone, Rebecca had actually gone through all their belongings, especially mementos. Amy, who never got over failing to save her kid sister from drowning after fallen through the frozen lake, mistrusts and resents the invasive "substitute sister" who manages to make her parents believe that she's been abusing pills. When self-absorbed Amy and her obsessive quest for dirt on the newcomer wear out her boyfriend Travis' patience, Rebecca seduces him. Rebecca (actually just another alias) will stop at nothing to either find her perfect family or gruesomely punish everyone for their "betrayal."
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Sister, Let's Play House
"Lacey" and "Billy" arrive at her former home, after a period of parental estrangement. Unfortunately, they walk in on a tragic and terrifying scene. While the credits roll, the story changes abruptly to a cold winter setting. In a larger Massachusetts home, a young woman examines every nook and cranny of her environment. She is especially interested in old family photographs. As an opening voice-over reveals, this is "House Sitter" Ashley Dulaney (as Rebecca). As you'll immediately decipher, Ms. Delaney has an unnatural interest in her employer's family. And, yes, she is immediately recognizable as a possibly deranged "Lifetime" TV movie character. When the family cuts their vacation short, Dulaney finagles an invitation to stay over because she supposedly has no place to go while awaiting her next house-sitting job... The family consists of furniture-restoring Kate Ashfield (as Sarah), her somewhat sullen husband Sean O'Bryan (as Kyle Lawrence) and their gloomy daughter Shelby Young (as Amy). Everyone is sad because another daughter, Lauren, recently died in a tragic drowning. Perky in pink, Dulaney begins to ingratiate herself into the host family. This story, written by Marcy Holland, adheres to its formula. Dulaney is engaging as the seemingly psycho house sitter. Direction by Jim Issa is strong and Ms. Young is especially convincing as the somewhat neglected daughter who suspects Dulaney may not be all there. There should be a stronger tie-in with "Lacey" and "Billy". Also, a line about transportation being affected by the snowy weather conditions would have helped explain why the family allows Dulaney to overstay her welcome. ***** The House Sitter (12/27/2015) Jim Issa ~ Ashley Dulaney, Kate Ashfield, Shelby Young, Sean O'Bryan
Careful who babysits your house
The warning of the week is careful who to let baby sit your house. Here the wacko is a needy girl who wants to be part of their family. The family is mourning the loss of one of their 2 daughters. She seems nice but tries too hard as she infiltrates the family as she stays with them when the family returns early. It's a plausible scenario.
The Wrong House Sitter
This Lifetime TV movie "The House Sitter" tells another story that is in the tradition of "Stalked By My ___________" wherein a family is victimized by their housemate who happens to be the usual stalker that Lifetime TV movie viewers have known.As always,this stalker happens to have a psychotic behavior and violent tendencies.This TV movie that stars Kate Ashfield, Ashley Dulaney and Shelby Young provides another typical Lifetime TV thriller. The story involves a family - the Lawrence family - who provided a stay to a woman named Rebecca in their house.As stated earlier,Rebecca started to wreck the family.It started when she started stealing the bras of Amy and slept with her boyfriend in their house.Apparently,her obsession of making the daughter look crazy was obvious as she did numerous things to do it from texting a sex video that involved Rebecca and a her boyfriend and putting sleeping pills on her bottled water.But later,it was discovered that Rebecca indeed was the guilty one.What is surprising is that she stays in many houses and does manage to wreck the family that she stays with by keeping a record of it in her diary. As always,this is a familiar Lifetime TV movie and Lifetime thriller.Common story lines appear such as the typical stalker a Lifetime film is involved with.Nothing is surprising in it as everything is predictable and we all know that the stalker will be stopped in no time.But it was nice to note that Ashley Dulaney did well as Rebecca.
The Homely House Sitter
This lame tale of a nutty house sitter doing her evil work to a normal family going through the loss of the daughter is about as predictable as you can imagine. This nut case is downright homely and annoying to look at and that whiny voice of hers could drive anyone crazy. I found it hard to watch her acting as well. So obvious in her snooping. The young daughter of the family is very good and you root for her. Mama and Papa have no idea what is going on and fall for the killer bitch's tales. But the daughter is wise and eventually give the girl her up pence. I was slightly bored with this film as it was too obvious and no one would let a house sitter stay when they aren't needed. The ending couldn't come soon enough.
"Welcome Home" to Lifetime at its most routine
The film was a Lifetime movie called "The House Sitter" — note that it's three words instead of two, though it's an oft-used title: IMDb.com lists a "Housesitter" (one word, no article) from 2007 ("Waitress Elise's dream to become a painter isn't going anywhere, unlike her ex Gerry's, so she eagerly accepts to house-sit a month the country estate eccentric gentleman Frank inherited), a "The Housesitter" from 2012 ("For more than a century an elite secret society from a prestigious New England university has engaged in a macabre rite of passage. Now, a rival they did not know they had has sent a killer") and another "The House Sitter" from 2015 ("A house sitter considers the possibility he may not be alone; after he starts hearing strange noises during the night"). The fact that this title has been used so often may explain why this one was originally filmed under the title "Welcome Home" — though it's cut so closely to the Christine Conradt format, albeit written and directed by others (Marcy Holland is the writer and Jim Issa — any relation to Darrell? — is the director), they might as well have called it "The Perfect Housesitter." It's basically the same-old, same-old Lifetime formula that's got pretty threadbare after they've been making these movies for over a decade. It begins with a confusing prologue in which a young woman and her boyfriend come to the home of her parents, from whom she's been estranged for years, and finds that they're seated at the dining table with their throats slit. Through most of the film I was unclear as to whether that was going to be the denouement we should expect from the main story or whether that was a crime committed by the title character similar to what she was planning to do to the other central characters. The main characters are the Lawrences: father Kyle (Sean O'Brien), mother Sara (Kate Ashfield) — who speaks with an impeccable upper-class British accent throughout; presumably Kyle, whose own vocal tones are nasal American Midwest, met and married a British woman lo those many years ago — and their two daughters. One of them, Lauren, the older, died before the main action begins — she fell through the ice at a frozen lake where the Lawrences were vacationing — and the other, younger daughter Amy (Shelby Young) is alive but all too conscious that her parents considered her second-best when her sister was alive and still do even though she's now the only one they've got. Amy is dating a cute guy named Travis (Guyon Brandt) but draws back from having sex with him. The titular house sitter is Rebecca (Ashley Dulaney, who turns in a nice psycho performance, though these nice psycho performances are starting to impress me less and less simply because as a regular Lifetime watcher I've seen too damned many of them — indeed, as engagingly twitchy as Dulaney is, I think Young as Amy out-acts her!), who agreed to look after the Lawrences' home while the three of them went on some sort of business trip that ended early. Rebecca pleads with the Lawrence parents that she has no place to stay since the residents of the next house she's supposed to house-sit are still there and aren't planning to leave for a few more days. No problem, says Mrs. Lawrence (Mr. Lawrence is a bit more dubious, as usual in these productions); Rebecca can stay in their guest room — though Rebecca "accidentally" takes a wrong turn and ends up in the dead sister Lauren's old room, which the Lawrences have kept unchanged as a sort of shrine to her. Amy goes ballistic when she sees Rebecca pawing through her sister's belongings, but Rebecca apologizes in her best smarmy, mock-sincere manner. The House Sitter is a pretty ordinary example of the Lifetime formula, a bit below par because writer Holland and director Issa tread on the thin edge of risibility through most of the film and go over it a few times — though they do create some chilling moments, including the scene towards the end in which Rebecca is holding a gun on Amy and telling her she no longer belongs in the family, and Amy is somehow able to hold on to her composure in spite of this stranger "hooking" all her worst fears about her parents looking down on her and wishing it had been she who had died instead of her sister.