LIFETIME THRILLER MOVIES
During February and March, seven new thrillers will debut on the Lifetime channel.
Based on a true story, “The Dating App Killer: The Monica White Story” stars Lela Rochon as the titular character starting to date again and soon charmed by Anthony Robinson (Jarod Joseph) she met online.
As their relationship deepens, Monica decides to meet Anthony in person but is unaware he harbors a dangerous secret. After her birthday celebration, his demeanor turns menacing.
When she begins connecting the dots between Anthony’s past and a string of murders haunting her community, Monica realizes she may be the key to ending this deadly rampage.
In “Double Double Trouble,” Tami Roman stars as identical twin sisters. Reeling from a devastating miscarriage and collapse of her marriage, Drea struggles to rebuild her life when her twin sister Ali finds love with Ryan (Colin Lawrence), a man who represents everything Drea believes she’s lost.
Old wounds, buried resentments, and twisted loyalties resurface, and Drea is pulled into a dangerous psychological battle with her twin, one that blurs identity, fractures reality, and leads to deadly consequences.
Following the success of Lifetime’s “Buried Alive and Survived,” the gripping new movie “Pushed off a Plane and Survived” is inspired by real stories from the original creative team.
This new story follows Jaynie (Eva Marcille) who miraculously cheats death after her husband Cole’s (Tyler Lepley) betrayal. A skydiving trip turns into a nightmare when she plummets 4,000 feet from the sky.
Against all odds, Jaynie survives. As she recovers from her devastating injuries, what appeared to be a tragic accident soon unravels into a chilling tale of deception and survival.
Determined to expose the man she once loved as a con artist, Jaynie fights to uncover his web of lies and bring him to justice before it is too late.
Interesting fact: 22-year-old Yugoslavian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic holds the record for surviving the highest fall from a plane at 33,000 feet without a parachute in 1972. She recovered from multiple serious injuries for the most part.
In “Vanished in an Instant,” Megan (Vinessa Antoine), a widowed high school teacher, sets out on a weekend road trip to reconnect with her rebellious teenage daughter, Whitney (Arista Arhin).
When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police call it a runaway, but Megan knows better.
As disturbing clues emerge and a shadowy figure traps Whitney in a deadly game of survival, mother and daughter are thrust onto parallel paths of terror.
With time running out, Megan makes a frantic, high-stakes race to uncover the truth of Whitney’s disappearance before her daughter is lost forever.
“The Boy with My Son’s Face” would be the story of any mother’s nightmare. After severe postpartum depression pushes Susan Webster (Italia Ricci) to her limit, she’s convinced by her husband Mark (Luke Camilleri) to start medication and hire a nanny, Amy (Siobhan Williams) to help with her infant son.
But one fateful night, tragedy strikes and the baby dies, and Susan is convicted of a crime she doesn’t even remember committing.
Years later, out on parole and fighting to start over, Susan sees a photograph that stops her cold – a picture of a boy who looks exactly like her son, only older and very much alive.
Teaming up with her street-smart friend Cassie (Gigi Saul Guerrero), Susan looks for answers and uncovers a sinister network of deception and secrets that makes her question the very people she once trusted.
A psychological thriller blurring the line between dream and reality, guilt and innocence, “I Killed Him in My Sleep” follows Kelly Crawford (Abigail Breslin), a millennial struggling with financial strain, career uncertainty and a wedding she can’t afford.
Desperate for money, Kelly enrolls in a sleep-study experiment that spirals into terror when she experiences a vivid, violent dream of a dying man, a bloody knife in her hand, and a voice accusing her of murder.
When a news report on the next day reveals a missing man who matches her dream, Kelly is drawn into a dangerous, emotionally charged pursuit of the truth – one that forces her to confront unsettling secrets and the shadows she may not be able to escape.
“The Man in the Window” sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock movie for more reasons than one of his mystery thrillers starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly was titled “Rear Window.”
The Lifetime movie finds Sarah (Teri Polo) feeling like she’s getting her life finally getting back on track when starts dating Jack (Dylan Walsh), the handsome man who just moved in across the street.
But when a neighbor turns up dead, all signs point to Jack. With no one willing to believe her, Sarah is forced to risk everything to prove the man she’s falling for is a killer.
“The Man in the Window” is not to be confused with Netflix’s 2021 thriller “The Woman in the Window,” in which an agoraphobic woman (Amy Adams) spied on her new neighbors and witnessed a crime.
Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.
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