Psycho Storm Chaser

source: Psycho Storm Chaser

Did anyone not know who was going to save the day at the end of the movie? If you didn't, shame on you. Rib Hillis, who wouldn't have a career if it weren't for Lifetime and other TV movies, is too over the top here as the bad guy. I guess with a title like this, it is what we should expect, but any semblance to believability was destroyed by him chewing the scenery. But it is a Lifetime movie, after all. Expectations should be low to begin with.

Lifetime must be really running out of ideas because this had to be the dumbest movie I've watched in awhile, the acting was horrible especially the storm guy and the rich stuck up lady and all I have to say is there better not be a sequel this was cringe enough.

Is it for Tax reduction? Is it by some one who has a lot of money and don't know how to waste it? How can such dumb movies be made and who are the people watching them for got sake? This is bad, from the music to everything else, just bad.

I thought the weather guy was totally wacko. I mean he was way out there. Can you imagine if our weather folks went nuts like this because we don't listen to their storm warnings? We'd all be goners! 😂 I think it was a fun movie - get some popcorn and watch it with a friend. It's silly and creepy.

He kills to "save." Judging by the ending and Rib Hillis being a regular on the network, it wouldn't surprise me if this was the start of a storm series. Look, I think we all know what to expect when watching these movies, but that doesn't give Lifetime an excuse to not write a good movie. I live in a state that gets the effects of a tropical storm (heavy rain and winds and floods), and the silly effects in this movie don't even represent that lol. The network should invest in stock storm footage like those skyline shots they always use in their films to make this more believable. This place is supposedly being evacuated and there are no people around. The grocery store in town...empty. The roads...empty. I get that the budget for these turn-and-churn movies aren't huge, but again, stock footage of traffic jams, storm effects, and actual wind can't be that costly. Not a flashlight or candle to be found. A scene I just watched...Rib Hillis is lurking outside..no rain...not even ten seconds later...rain. I expected Hurricane Carey to be more of a character. I'm sure the coma patient was supposed to add "stakes" to the suspense, but getting up w/o being weak or disoriented is a step too far. These movies are what they are, but so often they do things (like have a coma patient be totally fine enough to take down the villain) that just chip away at any sliver of credibility. Some other silly things...the sister of the coma patient being in that ivory cape for most of the movie. It's a storm and you're sheltering in place...maybe get comfortable. That made me laugh. This must be the year of Rib Hillis playing the villain. I think he's been the bad guy three times this year. He plays a good creep. His yellow jacket is like the fisherman's outfit in I Know What You Did Last Summer. The goofy nurse Tony reminds me of Jack Black's character in the sequel of that movie. After Tony bites it, Abby is so casually mentioning that she thinks someone else is in the house. As if she just told the sister that water is wet. And of course Abby is the typical Lifetime protag who, in spite of just declaring someone was in the house, doesn't call her cop ex to ask for help. Because she wants to reinforce that they're no longer together. Never mind that he's a first responder and she has a patient that needs services. Then when she discovers ****, she doesn't scream for help. She doesn't try to bring him in the house, find a neighbor, or anything. His body is just getting soaked in the mud. So disrespectful. After everything is over...they're making pancakes the next day and nobody mentions him. The sister has perfect makeup and Hannah the coma survivor is wearing lipstick lol. Actually, Abby's makeup is still perfect too. Including her fake lashes and barrel curls. She and Jack also share a kiss. Poor Tony...nobody cares that you're dead. Rib Hillis is in an ambulance with no cops even though he's killed a bunch of people...it's implied he gets away a la Albert Beck. Crazily enough, this is not the worst Lifetime movie of the year. It's terrible, but that honor currently goes to either The Stranger She Brought Home or Designed to Death (probably the winner). I get that it's currently storm season, but it tries to be a horror, so they could have saved it for Halloween. The killing of the newlyweds was creepy and horror movie-esque...but otherwise, this film is super goofy. I actually fell asleep the first time I watched, so it's not gripping by any means. As I usually say with these movies, watch once and decide. Something positive: I liked the look and font style of the credits..it was different for Lifetime.

My storm-chasing, meteorologist partner made me watch this movie. I knew it was going to be cheesy, but I REALLY hoped it would be deliberately bad and campy like Sharknado. Spoiler alert: it was not. It was just really, really bad. The acting was uniformly bad in a way that makes me think the director was bad at his job, the premise was simply stupid, and the effects (lightning, rain) were lame. Everyone was a caricature, and none of the characters were sympathetic or even likeable in any way. It was just BAD. There were so many plot holes and things that required you to suspend disbelief - but the movie wasn't worth that effort in the first place. They had misspellings on maps, clearly made-up town names that were laughable, medical backstories that were implausible and...really, just bad. Bad bad bad. The only saving grace is that this movie was short. The only surprise? - FOUR people survive in the end, instead of one. Oh, and a woman wakes up from a months-long coma to defeat the killer and walk and talk like muscles don't atrophy during a coma. Come on!

Anyone expecting to watch a Lifetime Movie and expecting high art is crazy. We watch these as pure escapism and to get a good laugh. This movie is as dumb as any other one I've ever seen. Bad acting, effects, etc. But having said that, I forgot my problems for awhile and laughed at the stupidity of it, and so that's okay in my book.

This has got to be the silliest movie I have ever seen in my life. I could not bear to watch more than an hour of it. Do not waste your time.

This movie was more interesting than what I thought it would be. It reminded me of an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour" called "An Unlocked Window", which was about a couple of nurses with a patient in a large house during a thunderstorm. Of course, this was set in the Lifetime Universe, where the believability switch is turned off and all sorts of weird things happen. In the Lifetime Universe..... 1. A category 3 hurricane is merely a severe storm with lots of rain, lightning, BUT NO WIND!!!! 2. People can be strangled, stabbed, shot at (SEVERAL TIMES) and still SURVIVE. 3. Persons who are in a coma can wake up, become INSTANTLY mobile, and attack someone. Rib Hillis played a pretty good psycho and weatherman - he ought to consider being a presenter at The Weather Channel. Have a drink and watch a horror show in "Lifetime Land". 6/10.