The best thing about this movie was the location towards the end Can they start making movies where the man has a better outcome. The characters had no reasoning, no background. It just seemed like a vehicle for women being victimised. I am female and it would be nice to see male and female characters make sense and not just make the man the bad guy. Not all women are goody goody. She was a stay at home mom and her husband was providing for everyone, and they were in debt! It would have made more sense to develop that instead of making him 'the monster'.

On a good note, the scenery was beautiful.

I sat through this movie for an hour and it was painful to watch. I was channel surfing and ended up on the Lifetime channel. At the beginning I was curious. The husband character made a point of discussing a birthmark he shared with his son during a cookout. The wife's best friend also in attendance was pregnant. So I was suspicious and within the first 10 minutes I guessed the dark secret. The rest of the time I watched, the movie just got worse.

There were so many things wrong with it. I didn't like ANY of the characters. The husband who I liked in other movies was a lying and violent jerk. The wife was just plain stupid and reckless. The wife's best friend was helpless and clueless. The wife's mom was bizarre. The cop, bartender, pawn guy, motel guy and so on - all same. It seemed like it was just a bunch of people parroting lines with no connection to their characters.

Anywho I surfed to another channel and returned for the final predictable scene. Nothing to see here. Bad acting bad script bad movie.

Three stars cuz the baby was cute ?

Truth be told, then I wasn't exactly harboring a whole lot of expectations to this 2023 thriller given the fact that it was a Lifetime TV movie. But still, I opted to give the movie a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt, since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, much less even heard about.

Director Penelope Buitenhuis actually surprised me with this 2023 thriller titled "House of Deadly Lies", because the movie turned out to be rather enjoyable and entertaining. Sure, this was a Lifetime movie, but it didn't feel like the usual overly predictable movies that they tend to produce. So I was genuinely surprised with the storyline in the movie and how entertaining it actually was.

Sure, some of the plot in the storyline was predictable, but it worked out well enough, because the movie, as a whole, was enjoyable and entertaining. And isn't that what a movie is all about?

The acting performances in the movie were good. I wasn't familiar with leading actress Katy Breier (playing Paige) and leading actor Jon McLaren (playing Michael), but they carried the movie quite well. It was a shame that actor Justin Nurse (playing Detective Anderson) wasn't given more on-screen time, because I think he could have spruced up the movie a notch.

If you enjoy a thriller, then perhaps give "House of Deadly Lies" a chance. I did and I was pleasantly surprised and genuinely entertained throughout the 97 minutes that the movie ran for.

My rating of "House of Deadly Lies" lands on a six out of ten stars.