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The very beginning of the film states it was based on a true story. That I find impossible to believe. A woman with a crippled husband and autistic daughter seriously want this house that she looks at but is out bid by someone else: Mrs Vogue and her doctor husband. While the story unfolds, much of the script and acting is so awful that I thought it was a bad joke. The scene of all the neighbours accusing Vogue of sending letters to them, and suddenly all friends when a party was announced. I've seen school plays with better acting than this! I'm sure my pet budgie could write a better script than this. None of this made sense. A poor woman voted Mother of the Year is truly a victim of domestic violence, she has to care for her daughter and also put up with her raging husband. However, this woman is the film's apex monster. They could've given her fangs or made her cast spells to make this slightly better! Instead I felt quite sorry for her. This TV movie is like junk food, it's bad although you can't stop watching it.

This is the best movie to fall asleep to. I start watching it and immediately feel like I took a sleeping pill. The acting is bad, the flyovers are overused and the story is unbelievable. I know it's based on true events, but this has to be exaggerated.

Absolutely AWFUL movie! PLEASE, do yourself a favor and save two hours of your life. Do not watch this horrible excuse for a movie! This is a new low for LMN! I have to say, some of their recent movies were bad, but this one is the most pathetic and screwed up yet! Lifetime....You are beginning to suck even more worse than ever!

This is a pathetic attempt at a story line and acting. They should pay me for the 20 minutes I wasted for this movie to get better. Little clue...it didn't. Don't waste your time.

This movie is horrible!!!! Bad acting and everything

Okay Wow... the opening sequence is a testament of complete affirmation of the choice made by so many of not having kids.

That being said, oh my. Which direction will this one possibly go????

Dear Lord...who writes this crap?

-1 Star for the Scene with the 'Love Letters'

-1 Star for Stupid Dialogue

-1 Star For the very stupid sexual assaulter scene

+1 Star For the Craziness of The Mother of The Year

Okay The Ending Was Cheesey but it was also Appropriate. Haha....

This one ends with a 3/10

I actually just deleted my original review and decided instead to say don't bother. This is just not a good thriller. I don't have LMN but I would assume that to keep that network going, they have to churn out a lot of movies, even the ones that belong in the scrap pile. I just FF to get to the end, and what a mess. Perhaps on paper it was better, but the execution left a lot to be desired.

A lot of this movie makes zero sense. The police are useless and condescending. A woman is upset over being outbid on a gorgeous home, and the new owner rejects her offer to buy it. This rejection turns into an obsession w/destroying the husband and pregnant wife who now live in the house. I mean, it's not justified at all.

This neighborhood has a welcoming committee and most of Crazy's deeds were done in daylight...no one saw her? There are plenty of signs that this is a close-knit (or nosy) neighborhood, so I'm not buying it. The house was clearly the "big house" in the neighborhood so I find it hard to believe it didn't draw attention just by existing. I can't remember if the movie said why the mom (can't remember the character's name) was home. She wasn't on bedrest for her pregnancy. Her husband was an ER doctor and was therefore away a lot, but I don't recall seeing her do much to occupy her time. IDK, sometimes characters who just sit around and just have stuff happen irk me.

I think the movie would have been better if it had taken the time to do a slow burn of the harassment. The drama started on Halloween, so a tame prank would have been a good start. Instead, she was afraid for her life because Crazy almost broke in, broke stuff, and sent a threatening note. I think instead of going from zero to one hundred, the movie could have taken time to show just how far Madison would go for that house. The listing of the house was also treated like a break-in, so by the time she and her husband started receiving "mail," things had already escalated.

The woman with the obsession was an abused wife and an overwhelmed mother of an autistic (I think) teenager. #1, I think that was done to make her somewhat sympathetic BUT none of it justifies her actions. So it's a bit manipulative to try to make that so, as well as making the husband a larger part of the climax than he was the entire rest of the movie. Additionally, given her circumstances, I don't understand why she wanted that house. Edit: now that I've seen the ending, her craziness over the house is all her...husband is in jail, daughter is living with grandma, and she still wants the house. So the ending negates everything.

That ending...UGH! I know it's a Lifetime staple trope, but does Crazy Madison really think none of the neighbors will know her after everything?

Give it a miss.

The house is spooky and we didn't get to see enough of the back yard with the creepy tree. The stone angel beside the tree looked significant. I can never be sure how anyone could afford a palace like this. It was beautiful. I even liked the house where the obsessive mother lived. The neighbours are extremely nice people and a shame the police were useless.

Dear Hollyweird writers, You morons have no idea have to write a good guy. Could it be because you are so hatefilled, evil and hypocritical that you have never met one. You do not have to be a doormat to be a good guy. You dont have to not fight for your own life or someone elses. Refusing to kill a murderous madman who is on a rampage does not equal the saint like good you think it protrays it makes you a moron. Also someone who refuses to kill a madman on the loose because they are such a good person is not good they are selfish.

This is why none of your characters are likable or iconic.

Dream House Nightmare is a surprisingly engaging made for television melodrama which hits all the expected dramatic buttons (the troubled characters come to a realization, the central female character is a selfless martyr, the community comes together via survived tragedy, etc.) However, DHN does contain some surprises and refreshing narrative detours, and has two performances of note. Firstly, Terese Aiello is terrific as a battered wife and devoted mother who represents a type anyone working in public education knows intimately - the obsessive, self-absorbed mom whose neurotic devotion to her offspring derails her moral center, creating an engine of destruction; there are some chilling moments when Aiello's character seems to be possessed of a demon, and the performance is a real tour de force. Also, Tenea Intriago's uncanny portrayal of a special needs teenager is nothing short of brilliant; there are times when this pivotal autistic character appears to be portrayed in a negative light, so her redemption to an out-and-out heroine by film's end is just breathtaking. Supporting characters are by and large well-drawn, with an adorable interracial couple and an equally adorable gay couple being standouts. The obsession with obtaining the "perfect house" as somehow being a miracle cure for a dysfunctional family's ills is certainly a sacred cow in American culture, portrayed well here. Plus, the use of the internet and social media to steal the heroine's identity and create general mayhem illustrates vividly what essentially malevolent creations these are, ripe for misuse by malignant parties. Although adhering faithfully to formula, DHN still manages to entertain in spades, and isn't that what it's all about?

This is why there should be negative star ratings. Just awful acting by the entire cast, and an offensive portrayal of a person on the autism spectrum.

I have been trying to think of something good to say about this movie, but it's a struggle. Maybe the one or two scenes with a slight amount of actual acting and a couple of happy neighbor/ friend moments in between the rest of the pointless plot, but it's basically a waste of time. All of the constantly brainless actions by the characters in every situation in the completely lame plot; the awful acting; lousy script and many loose ends that leave you wondering what is going on makes me question how movies like this ever get produced. How they can put 'thriller' or 'mystery' in the description is beyond me. The only reason I kept watching was in disbelief that it could be so bad, lol.

Wasn't sure what to expect but when YouTube adds it automatically and you are too sleepy to change you watch what YouTube suggests. That being said this was not a horrible movie just not good. It was not bad enough toake me turn it off and at least I did not feel robbed of time.

What happens when white trash in the Louisiana swamps lose a bid for their dream home? Answer, they become deranged stalkers (while pretending to be Mother and family of the year.) Suspenseful horror, incredible to believe it is based on a true story.

A new and interesting kind of horror movie. It seems like some of this could happen in real life. Each character experiences their own personal horror. There are bizarre over the top cheesy scenes. A story that takes many unexpected twists. This is a hidden gem of a drama horror.