(Spoilers included) This is a typical Lifetime movie, of about average (i.e usually mediocre) quality, although does maintain some interest because it has a (relatively) normal family going through stuff

The acting was generally average. I liked the girl's (Cristine Prosperi) acting, up to a point. She has a sweet face and she gave a shy, restrained performance which was very fitting for the tone of the movie, but relatively let me down when she doesn't seem to heart (at all after the initial shock) after her boyfriend gets killed (actually the whole school and their environment seem to bypass that as nothing happened). Of course, that shows lack of directional skills.

On the plus side, there is a small role for the very sympathetic Michael Madsen, although he doesn't get the chance to do much.

One of the biggest drawbacks for me was when people started to die(!) which I found over the top. They didn't have to push it that far, and even when they do, its presented so calmly that the emotional impact is missing. Another was the mother: During the final fight scene I would have her to fight more for her husband and daughter!

And of course, another major drawback was the psycho herself (adequately played by Ashlynn Yennie). There is nowhere an explanation about her motives, or how she came to be like that, or why she got crazy over the specific family. A little background would be nice!

All in all, its a mildly entertaining movie for a small break, if you have nothing better to do, although its not anything special! Despite its drawbacks however, I kind of liked it.

A colorful character in "The Wrong Neighbor" is the swim coach at the local high school, who goes by the name of "Jaws" Jaworski. But the real shark tank is the deranged neighbor named Jamie who is attacking a nice family. In the film, the villainess is referred to as "Hurricane Jamie" or simply "The Vampire" for the havoc she wreaks on the lives of Heather and Tim Sullivan, as well as on their young daughter Lisa.

One waits in vain to learn the motivation for why Jamie has singled out Heather, Tim, and Lisa. No background is given in the film other than the messianic desire of Jamie to have a "family." She appears to single out Tim at random when he moves into an apartment complex during a trial separation from Heather. It is actually the complete psycho Jamie that helps to restore the marriage!

The film was a by-the-numbers "thriller" about a nut case on the loose and the resilience of a set of family members who finally come to their senses to realize that they love one another. The filmmakers seemed to suggest that Jamie had murdered her parents. A loose plot strand was in the action of one of the clients of Heather, who works as a tax attorney. She worked pro bono for Patrick Clark, a security expert, whom she sent to spy on Jamie. Patrick found some important information that he relayed to Heather in a voice mail message. But Heather never played back her message, and Patrick unceremoniously dropped out of the film when he was stabbed to death by Jamie.

The character of a kind British psychiatrist provides counseling for Heather, Tim, and Lisa. But the person who needs to be lying on Dr. Fischer's couch is Hurricane Jamie!

The acting is good but the picture is done in by a very weird story line. It's the same thing of someone entering the lives of a family and causing complete havoc. In this instance, the parents have separated which has effected their teen daughter. Don't you think the dad seemed too young to have a 16 year old daughter?

The woman showing up is a complete lunatic with quite a past and the family soon realizes it. The bodies of others start to pile up as this vixen goes completely berserk.

By the end, this monster woman is causing major problems in the psychiatric institution she has been placed in. Not plausible to believe all this.