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Not bad for a lifetime movie, but seems like this one should of been a netflix movie instead. Definitely has a delicious and hunky psycho in this one!! The film starts with an unseen assailant who murders a woman in her swimming pool, then shifts to a woman and her daughting moving into the home months later. The mother thinks nothing of the crime until they find a tooth stuck in the drain of her swimming pool and she begins to suspect the hunk pool boy may of had something to do with the death. This movie is similar to other ones though, the mom having a torrid affair with a younger guy, who then gets rejected and dates the daughter in order to seek revenge. Just with the sexy pool guy and his psycho character makes this a good one!!

First off.....why does every family in every Lifetime Movie live in a expensive mansion? Can't we see a normal house??

Second....the lead actor mumbles like WWE wrestler "The Big Show" and needs some more acting lessons.

Lastly.....Once you see secondary characters like the "best friend" and the ex-hubby, you know they are in trouble.

"In Pool Boy Nightmare," the title character, Adam Lance, has committed multiple homicides prior to meeting Gale Foley and her daughter Becca. He promptly seduces the mother, then starts dating the daughter. Young Becca seems to believe she has met her "Prince Gorgeous." By by the end of the film, it is difficult to empathize with either Gale or Beeca, due to their poor judgment.

My favorite character was Jackie, the bestie of young Becca. It was Jackie who almost instantly recognized a problem with Adam, whom she cannot locate on social media. But Becca refuses to heed Jackie's advice and plunges into a disastrous encounter with Adam.

The triangulated relationship of Gale, Adam, and Becca has to be one of the messiest imaginable. Gale improbably began her one-timer with Adam when he was giving her a massage. When she tried to break off the relationship, it started to dawn on Gale that the young man was obsessed with her.

Gale then enlists her ex-husband, Tony, requesting that he confront the pool boy. As a result, Tony is hospitalized for serious burns after Adam placed a chemical in Tony's jacuzzi. Gale, Becca, and Tony all make their predicament uglier with their flawed decision-making.

The film was a by-the-numbers thriller without many thrills. It was difficult to believe that the police had not investigated the circumstances of the death of Adam's previous victim, Rhonda Phillips, who was murdered in her swimming, pool, then dragged into the house and placed in the bathtub. The film's ending was also strange as Gale shut the door of the family home, and the screen went to blackout with no denouement.

"Prince Gorgeous" turned out to be a one-dimensional villain. One can only wonder if the main characters have learned anything from a calamity they brought on themselves.

'Pool Boy Nightmare' (2020)

When will Lifetime stop mixing people talking with loud music? Apparently they don't want the viewers to hear the dialogue. Even in the scenes without music, the audio was bad quality. Some of the lines were unintelligible or sounded like they were spoken in a vacuum.

Casting left a lot to be desired: Jessica Morris has been the lead actress in too many Lifetime flicks already, just like several other actresses in other movies. You'd think there were only 5 or 6 actresses in the world the way they keep using the same ones over and over. And the daughter was sorely miscast - I don't mean to sound shallow but they surely could have found someone more attractive and likeable.

Speaking of unattractive: the pool boy actor wasn't bad-looking, but he was oddly out of proportion; with a bigger head, neck, and upper body than his lower half.

I've mentioned this in previous reviews but I must repeat it here: WHY does every lead character and their daughter/son in Lifetime flicks live in huge ornate mansions?? SO unrealistic, especially when the mother either doesn't even work or complains about not being able to make ends meet and pay the bills on time. Just once I'd like to see them live in a middle class ranch-style house with only 2 bedrooms and no pool, like most people do.

Continuity errors: Adam's beard growth fluctuated from clean-shaven to several days growth in the same 8-minute scene, and when he beat himself up to blame it on the dad, he sent photos of his bruised, beaten torso to Becca. But the next day or so when they went to a random house to the pool and he took off his shirt, there were no bruises at all - just perfectly normal uninjured skin. Even if he had used makeup to paint the bruises on, and washed it off before the date with Becca, she should've noticed his flawless skin and asked him where all those bruises went.

As for another reviewer here saying the ending couldn't have happened - I don't see why not. It looked possible to me, and for once it was different than most other Lifetime endings with the same basic plotline and premise of psycho stalker making their victim's life miserable for 2 hours until the climax.

Nothing about this one made it stand out from all the other formulaic LMN stuff. Same basic story with new guy playing the psycho.

2 out of 10 / Grade D.