The Last Woman Who Lived Here (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Tamara Almeida, Morgan Kelly, David Chinchilla, Cindy Sampson
Director: Samantha MacAdam
Writer(s): Leo McGuigan
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Seeking a fresh start, Charlotte and her husband, Joel, pack up their lives in the big city and head to the suburbs, where they find an incredible deal on a beautiful home. Yet all is not what it seems. Their house is “the murder house”, and Charlotte soon finds clues left by the former resident before her murder, making her question which one of their neighbors knew all along and have been covering it up. Tamara Almeida, David Chinchilla, Cindy Sampson, and Morgan Kelly star (2025).
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie starts at a typical home, meeting Vanessa, who has a heart laptop cover and needs a lawyer. There is a knock at the door, and when Vanessa answers, she screams in terror and is killed? (But not before writing something on the wall of a closet with a paintbrush.)
One month later, interior designer Charlotte and her optimistic lawyer husband, Joel, think about buying the property. They love the place, but it is listed as a steal. The realtor tells Joel why the place is such a deal. (AKA, there is a murder in the house.) He keeps that information from Charlotte. They put in an offer and quickly moved in.
Joel and Charlotte debate over whose office goes where; he puts Charlotte in the basement! (Rude!) Joel is also very possessive of a particular folder and gets weird when Charlotte unpacks it.
The couple is invited to a fancy party in the neighborhood hosted by local celebrity Rick Bridges. Charlotte hits it off with the hostess, Serena, at the party. They bond over wine, and Charlotte inadvertently insults the selection. The honesty charms Serena. Serena is an open book who tells Charlotte about her troubled, conceiving, and dull life as a businessman’s wife. The conversation is interrupted by a martini-guzzling redhead named Lori. Who drunkenly tells Charlotte that she is living in a “Murder House.” (I identify with Lori the most! Haha)
Charlotte brings the whole murder thing up to her husband, and Joel laughs it off. They get into an argument over having kids, and Charlotte storms out, leaving Joel to call someone and angrily saying in a hushed tone, “SHE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT!” The next day, Lori comes over to apologize for her drunken behavior. Charlotte forgives Lori and decides to give her a second chance.
Murder House isn’t something you just brush off, and Charlotte starts asking questions. She goes to lunch with Serena, who tells her it isn’t a big deal. Then Charlotte meets with Ted, Lori’s husband, and he shows her some video surveillance footage showing no one entered the home. Charlotte steals the video files and does some online research of her own.
Joel calls Charlotte to see what she wants for dinner, and the call is interrupted by an intruder attacking Joel. Charlotte rushes home and calls the police. Joel is pretty severely beaten and admitted to the hospital. The detective talks to Charlotte and Rick, and Serena takes her home to rest. The house has been ransacked, and that special folder that Joel was freaking out over is in the trash.
The realtor stops by in the middle of the night to apologize for keeping the whole MURDER thing from Charlotte. Joel asked the realtor to keep things quiet.
Throughout the movie, Charlotte finds clues from Vanessa’s attack, including blood on the floor and shards of broken glass. (I’m over here wondering, DID NOBODY CLEAN?!?!) Speaking of cleaning, look at this insane desktop!!!! (I would divorce Joel for this alone.)
Charlotte finds the file on Vanessa and accuses Joel of lying to her. Joel explains that Vanessa made an appointment with her before she died. Charlotte believes him and comes clean about her reservations about having kids. Suddenly, they are all good and are a supportive, loving couple. Joel tells Charlotte to stop worrying about Murder House and move on with their happy lives. Charlotte agrees to drop it, but she quickly returns to her Nancy Drew ways. In the middle of the night, Charlotte hears a car outside. When she rushes out to see who it is, she sees a car driving away and a heart on the license plate.
Charlotte watches Ted’s home video on a projector and notices the basement light turning on. Charlotte goes into the closet and finds Vanessa’s etching on the wall. Charlotte takes a piece of paper and rubs a red crayon over it. The word Murder is carved into the wall. Charlotte doesn’t want to go to the police until she is sure, and recruits Serena to help.
Serena and Charlotte break into Ted’s office and download the unedited footage to see what else they can see. When they catch Ted having an affair with a co-worker, they see much more than they intended to. Charlotte snaps a picture. Serena wants to go to the police.
Charlotte randomly gets locked in her basement, and the gas stove is turned on high with no flame. Joel comes back from a run and is all confused. “Why did you leave the stove on?”
Ted’s affair is on the unedited footage, and he is caught. He reviews the footage with Charlotte and explains why he edited the footage. He is off the suspect list.
While cleaning out her Sheshed, Charlotte finds an envelope that reads “IF ANYTHING HAPPENS.” Inside, there is a flash drive and photos of Vanessa’s bruising. On the flash drive, Charlotte sees a car pull up to the doorbell footage from a different vantage point. Rick’s car! Charlotte can tell by his watch. Charlotte calls Serena and tries to warn her, but before they meet, Charlotte sees the car with the heart bumper sticker and leaves a note on the car.
The waitress from the country club, Michelle, was Vanessa’s best friend. They both worked together at the club. Rick had been sexually harassing Vanessa for months, and when she shut him down, he got violent. Vanessa made an appointment with Joel to try to protect herself, but it was too late.
Rick and Charlotte have a confrontation when he breaks into her home. Rick wants to work something out, but Charlotte tries to escape. Rick knocks Charlotte unconscious and locks her in his wine cellar. Of course, Serena notices, and when Charlotte tries to explain, Serena doesn’t let her friend out. She already knew Rick was responsible for Vanessa’s murder, or was he?
Serena admits that things got out of hand when she confronted Vanessa to try to stop her from reporting Rick for his abusive behavior. Serena did what she thought she had to do to protect her family and save their reputation from being tarnished. The fancy couple have a baby to adopt, don’t forget.
Joel rushes in to have his wife, and he and Rick struggle. Charlotte saves her own ass and smashes the glass door with a wine opener. Then Charlotte and Serena go at it until Charlotte smashes her former BFF over the head with a wine bottle.
The police arrive, and Joel holds Charlotte while they watch the criminals be taken away by the police.
Three years later, Charlotte and Joel are expecting a baby. They are friends with Tori, who still lives next door without her cheating husband and, unfortunately, isn’t drunk all the time.
STRAY Thoughts
Motives for this one were pretty sound! This a perfectly middle-of-the-road Lifeime offering.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪 (1 knife)
Lifetime Tropes: Murder, Suburbs, infidelity
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷 (3 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
Put a Cork in it! (Skip it!)
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How did Vanessa afford that house as a bartender??
It was inherited from her grandmother who she cared for till her grandmother’s death.
I liked that the female lead was smart for the most part. She didn’t leave messages or tell people who she thought the killer was. What I don’t understand is why she didn’t’ try to break out before her husband was attacked. But overall, not a dumb heroine.