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Ok, starts off as a mystery, possible ghost supernatural trance. Then it devolves into a conspiracy, identical lookalike pretending to be a dead person, with lots of fill in plot nonsense, with the worst soap opera acting and plotting.

So, here's the story: 1, Rich woman's new husband kills his wife's daughter, because she didn't want to develop her fathers land, and also kills her boyfriend, to make it look like a murder suicide. The boyfriends body is never found. He may have fallen into the river. Who knows, who cares!

2, The husband then develops the land, and his son from another marriage happens to meet an identical lookalike of the murdered daughter, and convinces this woman that he is the boyfriend and that he need her help to clear his name. So, she goes along with him, and pretends to be possessed by the murdered girl for periods of time and try to get her hands on the girl's diaries that contain evidence of the boyfriend's innocence. Yes, this freaking movie is unbelievable and convoluted. This girl now shows up in town just in time for the 1 year memorial of the dead girl, and everyone ties to act shocked.

3, We have a reporter trying to help the girl figure out what's going on, along with the audience. Main question is, why the hell did anyone even bother making this boring pile of mess? We have a dirtbag sheriff, that may or may not be in on the murders, dumb red herring. And we have Terri Garr as the dead girl's mother. Unbelievably stupid character, and dumb performance. She was great in Young Frankenstein, and had a decent role in the original Star Trek. Here, she's a mess. She's clearly limping, where the camera tries to hide the limping.

4, the girl hallucinates and may or may not be possessed. The whole directing and acting is just plain garbage. The dead girls step-father wants the dead girl's diary because of some incriminating evidence. That's why he got his son to impersonate the dead girl's boyfriend.

This is some serious convoluted nonsense. It could never happen. So, the story is crap. The acting is soap opera level. The only way to enjoy this is if you laugh at it. Tons of laughter if you follow those instructions. The best part is at the end. Not only because the movie ends and you are now free to continue with your life. But, Terri Garr, limps outside, after her husband shot his son dead, and says some of the most ridiculous crap that has ever been utter in world history. She says something like "Now we can he happy".

Another thing. All throughout this movie. Tons of clues are given to fill in the blanks. Cheap little bits of dialogue. For example, when Terri Garr went to the bank safe deposit box with Candace Cameron, they bumped into the bank manager. Garr says "I never liked that guy", next thing we see is the bank manager calling Garr's husband. Also, Garr tells us that the safe deposit box is under her maiden name and that her husband doesn't know about it. And what do you know, the husband shows up to interrupt the safe deposit viewing, in a pretense of inviting them to dinner. Garbage, paint by numbers script. Boring dialogue, and boring acting.

If you approach it as a comedy. The rating may be higher. But as it stands this is a failure. F, 1 star. It is of course not the worst movie ever made. That I have to award to a recent viewing of a Meg Ryan film In The Cut, which was offensive in a lot of ways.

Thank you. Good night.

Think you've seen the worst movie in the world? Think again. The person who designed the cover of this box should be accused of false advertising. The cover makes it look like a good, scary horror suspense thriller. But, no. What we have instead is NIGHTSCREAM. A movie that makes a "sweeeoooowww!!" noise every time a credit flashes across the screen. The biggest name in the entire film is probably Casper Van Dien who hardly has a part.

I voted a one for this one only because I couldn't vote any lower. If I could vote something like negative five-thousand, trust me, I would have. So, for now, I'm going to give NIGHTSCREAM 1/2* out of 5 just because it ended.

The only screaming I experienced during the viewing of this film were the results of my uncontrollable laughter. Drew (Candace Cameron Bure) shows up in a small Oregon coastal town, a town still reeling from a murder-suicide a year earlier. It seems Julie's (Teri Garr) daughter Laura was strangled by her boyfriend Ted, who promptly threw himself off a cliff into a river. Clue Alert! Clue Alert!: his body was never found! Drew begins taking on the personality of the dead Laura, and because the two look exactly alike, Julie spends more time with her. The sad news is that the whole Drew/Laura ghost thing is a scam. Unbunch your panties, the film makers let us in on the secret way too early as well. Drew is in Oregon with Laura's old boyfriend Ted (Casper Van Dien). The couple wants to find Laura's diaries and solve the case themselves, clearing Ted's name. This is an obviously foolproof plan, except Drew begins having visions of Laura for real. Everybody is not who they seem, and Drew and her scrunched up button nose are plunged into a whole sack of peril.

I was never a "Full..." or "Fuller House" fan. It wasn't funny, the cast was terrible, and yet it was on the air forever. Candace Cameron Bure has grown up but she cannot shake the role that made her a star. She still looks thirteen here, and I halfheartedly waited for a 'Dave Coulier as Bullwinkle' cameo to liven things up. Bure annoyingly spends most of the film looking slightly nauseous and telling everyone she's not crazy. Casper Van Dien has too few scenes to be totally terrible, and Teri Garr does her best Teri Garr impression- kinda ditzy, kinda weepy, and kinda disinterested in the film. The film is full of so many "oh, come on" moments, it should be covered in screenwriting classes at university level. Nosseck's direction is terrible. The awful musical score NEVER stops until the end of the film, when a Chris Isaak wannabe croaks a nonsensical ditty about two loves. The film premiered on television, and in the VHS version I saw, the black spaces where commercials were to be put ran a lot longer than a simple fade-out and fade-in, instilling a false hope that the thing was over. Dangling plotlines include the mystery of the sheriff's dad, and exactly how long did Drew rent that car for? "NightScream," an awful title, might take you in with its flashy video cover art and the promises of a scary horror film. Yes, this is horror, but the kind of horror that comes from knowing you are watching a very bad film. Muffle this Scream.

In this film Candace Cameron Bure and Teri Garr are mother and daughter. Drew Summers (Cameron Bure) drives from San Francisco, California to a small town in Oregon she has never been to while in a trance. A year ago in this town, Laura Fairgate (Cameron Bure) was murdered. Everyone assumed that Laura's boyfriend, Teddie who went missing the same time as the murder had done it, but Drew started having dream sequences and trances that imply otherwise. Laura's mother, Julie Fairgate-Ordwell (Garr) takes Drew in for shelter. Drew finds out that Laura's stepfather was the murderer and comes out of her trance. In the end of the movie on the way back home, she leaves flowers near Laura's grave.

Drew (Candace Cameron Bure) finds herself in a strange town acting like Laura Fairgate, a girl who was killed. She appears to be possessed by the girl who was murdered by her boyfriend. There is a question as to who was the real murderer and if Drew is really possessed. Drew causes problems in this small community which just wants to move on.

The film has a number of interesting twists. I wasn't expecting the twists with this being a made for TV Lifetime film. The dialogue was horrible and even Teri Garr couldn't sound convincing. However the plot was engaging more than usual. This is not a horror movie. It is a low end thriller. A better Lifetime film in my opinion.