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I don’t know what it is recently, but I’ve really been enjoying the unapologetic nature of Lifetime’s TV movies, in particular those that skirt around the horror genre. It seems, at least to me, that Lifetime has taken the reigns from the likes of Syfy, who years ago produced cheap but fun movies that riffed on bigger budget movies and, ultimately, made their films almost a genre of their own. And Lifetime is doing the same with their films – taking their traditional over the top dramas but scaling them back a little, throwing in the tropes, cliches and stereotypes of horror and thriller movies to create their own hybrid films.
Yet at the same time, these...
I don’t know what it is recently, but I’ve really been enjoying the unapologetic nature of Lifetime’s TV movies, in particular those that skirt around the horror genre. It seems, at least to me, that Lifetime has taken the reigns from the likes of Syfy, who years ago produced cheap but fun movies that riffed on bigger budget movies and, ultimately, made their films almost a genre of their own. And Lifetime is doing the same with their films – taking their traditional over the top dramas but scaling them back a little, throwing in the tropes, cliches and stereotypes of horror and thriller movies to create their own hybrid films.
Yet at the same time, these...
- 2/18/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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