Not So Perfect Stranger(2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: Kirsten Comerford, Jon McLaren
Director: Alexandre Carrière
Writer(s): Shawn Riopelle
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After a traumatic divorce, a young and promising architect, Ava Westcott, returns to Niagara Falls to confront her nightmares, only to find herself the target of a disturbed local, Wyatt Ross, whose dark history and obsession threaten both their lives.
Recap/Wine Thoughts
Ava has had PTSD ever since a rocky divorce. Her dreams are haunted by her husband pushing her over the Niagara Falls. She is in therapy, and her therapist suggests facing her fears of the falls and taking a vacation. (Ava and her husband took their honeymoon there.)
Insert scenic travel shots, and Ava is renting an Airbnb with her best friend, Ginny. They visit the falls immediately upon arriving, and Ava has a panic attack when she thinks she sees her husband. They skip the scenery and head to the bar.
While ordering some cosmos, Ava meets a random hot guy, who tells her to order beers because the bartender is stingy on the vodka. Ginny sees them talking and encourages her to get over her ex by getting under her new friend. Wyatt.
Wyatt is also getting out of a relationship, one he has invented in his mind with a woman on her honeymoon in his cabin. Wyatt flashes lights in the window to lure them outside, and he kills them like a bad guy in a horror movie. Then Wyarr hides their cars in the barn and buries their bodies in the woods. If we had any doubt of what Wyatt is capable of, we know now he has snapped and is unhinged.
Ava has lost it too because she jumps over the waterfall railing when she drops he wedding ring over the edge. She has trouble climbing back up, and Wyatt just so happens to be passing by, and he rescues her. Ava notices a cut on his neck and offers him a bandaid with a smily face on it. Afterward, he continues to drag the bodies through the woods and to the falls.
Ginny and Ava go out to take pictures, and damn it if Ginny doesn’t open her big mouth and tell Ava about her ex-husband’s new pregnant fiancée. Ava rushes off alone because she needs some space and inadvertently sees Wyatt dumping the body. Instead of running, she takes pictures and goes to the police.
Wyatt sees her and breaks into her Airbnb to sniff her panties. (And presumably look for the footage.) Later, he texts Ava to go to dinner with him, and she is considering it! I guess from far away, she couldn’t tell WHO was dumping the body in the river.
Since Wyatt is left on read by Ava, he has a dinner date with the woman from the cabin, he didn’t kill her, he is just keeping her captive and locking her in a box, NBD!!!!!
Back at the bar, Wyatt orchestrates a casual run-in with Ginny and Ava. He joins them for a drink, and Ava tells him about the body-dumping guy. Wyatt asks to see the pictures and is relieved you don’t know it’s him. Still, that doesn’t stop him from breaking into their place and stealing Ava’s phone and wedding ring that she can’t seem to part with. (In a way, he is helping her!) Ginny wakes up and almost catches Wyatt, but he chloroforms and kidnaps her.
Wyatt uses the stolen wedding ring to propose to his one-night fling, whom he is still keeping in a box. Then he gets a dump truck and buries a car. Wyatt is really trying to cover up his crimes. I appreciate his dedication. Wyatt has Ginny call Ava for her phone password, but won’t tell her why.
Ava goes to call the police and sees the smiley face band-aid on the ground. (So glad that came back.) Ava knows Wyatt kidnapped her friend and has been in their house. Ava rushes to the barn and calls the police. WHEN SHE GETS THERE? (Bad Idea!)
Quietly and with a hammer, Ava sneaks into the barn to save her friend. While Ginny is screaming for her life, Ava just kind of watches on as Wyatt puts on a rain poncho and gets out sharp objects. Finally, Ava hammers him and frees her friend. Instead of running away, they try to save Box Girl and get Ava’s phone out of Wyatt’s pants.
Wyatt gets away, and the ladies stay at their Airbnb, which was already broken into… TWICE. Police are stationed outside, but that means nothing; Wyatt will just kill the police, duh. (I don’t make the scary movie rules; this is just always what happens to cops stationed outside.)
Of course, Wyatt gets inside and kills Box Girl. He knocks Ava out and takes her to a cemetery where his mother is buried. He tells a sad story about his father’s infidelity and his mother’s not being able to handle the betrayal, and throwing herself over the falls. Wyatt also has nightmares about the falls, and it ties him to Ava. Ava runs and hides behind a tombstone, dropping a pin for Ginny to find her.
Wyatt wants to plunge into the falls with Ava because he has built this up in his head as what he has to do. He locks Ava in a trailer and then makes her peanut butter sandwiches while talking about being swallowed by the “majesty of nature.”
Police are watching the falls from every angle and are anticipating Wyatt’s move. They see him and Ava. Wyatt talks about the 5000 people who have died going over the cliff, and only less than 1% survived the fall. Ava gut checks him and sends Wyatt over. Is he the 1%? Probably! They didn’t find his body.
STRAY Thoughts
I haven’t seen a movie at Niagara Falls since Marilyn Monroe’s Niagara. (Which is also about a murder at the falls!)
Honeymoon capital of the world? Is this true?
Shoutout to the smiley-face band-aid for being the most reliable character in the film.
Staying in a twice-broken-into Airbnb while a killer is loose? Bold choice, Ava. Bold.
The Niagara Falls tourism board must be thrilled with this branding.
“Know your best friend’s passcode” — the new golden rule of survival horror.
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪(2 knives, maybe three?)
Lifetime Tropes: Stalker, Handsome Stranger, Divorce,
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷🍷🍷(3 Glasses of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
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