I must admit I've only recently discovered Lifetime movies and they really are a genre on its own, and sure there are a lot of plot holes and low budget but they are what they are init. Anyway, LaGrange College was the setting for this 2023 Lifetime movie, A Guide to Murder, and I must admit I liked the college feel in the first half of the movie, and I was thinking that maybe something quite gruesome could arise like in Saw or Hostel and the student trapped in the well kind of got closer there of sorts. All credit to Rae DeRosa in the lead role of Ashley, and hopefully her career will progress.

Guest Professor Miles is eerily similar to Bryan K!

Is this Art imitating Life or Life imitating Art?

Storyline drags on and as most LMN movies has more commercials than content.

Guest Professor Miles is eerily similar to Bryan K!

Is this Art imitating Life or Life imitating Art?

Storyline drags on and as most LMN movies has more commercials than content.

Guest Professor Miles is eerily similar to Bryan K!

Is this Art imitating Life or Life imitating Art?

Storyline drags on and as most LMN movies has more commercials than content.

Not sure why there is a required word count for viewers review...

Ashley (played by Rae DeRosa) is a creative writing graduate working on her first novel, which will also serve as her thesis. Her mentor calls her in and reveals that the celebrity writer, Miles Blake, will teach campus classes. He asks Ashley to be his teaching assistant. Ashley, a passionate fan of Miles, is thrilled at the chance to work with him and help a group of crime writers to embark on a quest to discover the perfect murderous plot for the course. However, she is also headstrong and sees this experience as a way to improve her own writing and develop her novel.

A few murders occur - a woman gets kidnapped and drowned ... another one will soon follow ... Ashley suspects it's David who is a huge fan of Miles Blake and becomes angry when Ashley is assigned as his teaching assistant instead of him. He's quite one creepy dude.

I didn't think this would be good but it was well-acted, features some tense moments in the forest and the killer really goes over the edge. It's formulaic but quite captivating and entertaining.