Believe it or not, this was my first LMN movie. I was hooked. The plot of this one left me wondering (and my wife and I discussing after viewing) who actually did what. Elisabeth Harnois amazing- beautiful, sensitive, strong, smart. She demonstrated her versatility throughout the entire film. To me, the other actors were forgettable, but Elisabeth made you care about Kara and made her memorable. One of the few LMN movies I would watch again.
Twisted
2018
Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Twisted
2018
Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
4.8Plot summary
In addition to her new job as a counselor at St. Thomas Church, Kara works as a server at a restaurant alongside her fiancé Tyler, the manager. Tyler is clean and sober having emerged from a life of substance abuse, exacerbated by what was a toxic relationship with his then girlfriend Elle, who went into rehab for that substance abuse. Kara is surprised to discover that Elle is Isabelle, her latest client at the church and the daughter of the city's Police Chief, she, now out of rehab, having gone into this counseling on the want of her father, a congregant. Kara comes to the realization that Elle coming into her life was probably not an accident as her end goal seems to be to resume that "bad boy/bad girl" life with Tyler in she further inserting herself into their lives through manipulation. Elle's path to resuming that life with Tyler requires getting Kara out of the way, seemingly through harassment, although all of those acts of harassment seem to be a case of "she said/she said" in Kara trying to prove that it is Elle behind these acts, especially difficult with the Police Chief on his daughter's side in he believing he knowing best how to handle her recovery. The questions then become how far Elle will go to get Kara out of the way, and if it gets to that point how far Kara will go to protect her life with Tyler.
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Drama, twists, and a wonderful lead
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Karoline's Little Secret
Karoline (Kara) Spencer still feels the emotional pain of the loss of her parents in a fishing accident. She is now engaged to Tyler and seems to be steady in her life as a counselor at a local church and as a waitress. But Kara's life is disrupted with the arrival of Tyler's ex-girlfriend, Isabelle (Elle) Lloyd, who is determined to win back her man.
"Psycho Ex-Girlfriend" (a.k.a., "Twisted") was well performed by the principal actors, especially the actress playing the unfortunate Kara, who must cope with the deranged Elle, the daughter of the local police chief. Through the harassment that she endures, Kara gets no help from the police, and even Tyler proves to be ineffective in preventing his ex from disrupting their marriage plans and getting inside the head of his fiancée.
A weakness of the film was in its unpleasantness, especially in the intentional drowning of Kara's beloved cat. Was that act really necessary to demonstrate how devious Elle could be? Another shortcoming was in Tyler's inability to stand up to his boss Frank and insist that Elle stop working as a waitress alongside Kara. At some point, Tyler needed to be decisive.
There was a narrative twist in the subplot of Kara and her client Laura, whom she has been counseling at Father Macey's church. Kara allows Laura to move into the trailer owned by her parents, in order to escape an abusive spouse. But there turns out to be a quid pro quo when Laura places an ad that invites strange men to visit her at her home. It was this ad that finally pressured the police, led by the diligent female detective Clemens, to challenge the authoritarian police chief and expose the machinations of Elle.
It turned out that the little orphan had some backbone, and she was also very adept at handling herself with a loaded revolver.
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Unnecessary twist at the end
The acting was decent. Not sure why they had the twist ending about the main chick Kara being the one who was behind her own harassment just to set up her fiance's seductive ex girlfriend.