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Mary Morrison is a bestselling author who writes novels about "passion, sex, lies, betrayal." In order to focus on writing her next novel, Mary Morrison hires a young, hot nanny to look after her children - and maybe her husband too. It's pretty obvious where this is going. Anna Elizabeth James' 'Deadly Illussions' is a silly, paint-by-numbers, third-rate 'Basic Instinct'-y thriller with its thin and definitely confusing plot. Anyone who can sit through this without cringing at least once deserves an honorary Oscar. Stream it!

While this tries to be a psychological thriller 'deadly illusions' is a snooze. The acting doesn't feel authentic and there's no chemistry. The storyline is fairly predictable and the brilliant twist falls flat. Characters lacked depth and made it hard to connect to the story. Story was basic and lacked development.

The one redeeming feature of the 80s erotic thriller genre was that we got to see attractive performers get their kit off and do their thing, albeit in a usually clichéd and highly derivative set up. Sadly, that doesn't happen here. We've got the clichés and the lack of originality but none of the eroticism.

3 stars for the cast for managing to keep straight faces but that's about it.

The only thing this film is good for is slowing the passage of time, perhaps useful if you're on your deathbed. However I feel you'd be begging for death's sweet embrace far before the end credits.

Worth watching solely for the old woman in the library who does the worst keyboard acting I've ever seen in my life.

1hr in and I thought, surely this is about to get good; and then it literally got worse. My only regret was not getting blacked out drunk before it started.

I do not recommend.

This movie is so bad, I'd rather watch Kanye West talking about himself for 10 hours straight

I'm so upset that this movie had to be this bad. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't boring but it was almost entertaining to watch how bad its plot and acting were.

I mean, the villain CAME OUT FROM NOWHERE. The story of the mother being a writer is almost useless. There was no correlation between the character and the conflict. The motives and background were definitely not in sync with the plot it meant to give.

The acting was not helping either. When they supposed to be happy they didn't look sincere, when someone supposed to be in shock, they didn't even do what people supposed to do when they're shocked.

I personally don't recommend it but go watch it if your day is so good and you need to balance it out by feeling upset a little bit.

This is the worst movie i have ever saw i couldn't even finish it i stopped half through it

Honestly it has potential, but I really feel that with a different director, the movie would have been a better thriller. The editing could have also been better.

The movie is seemed to be quite lost about what story it was trying to tell. It could have been a good psychological thriller but it ends up being a sometimes sexy and sometimes meh slasher flick.

The "villain's" goals are unclear and nonsensical. The exposition of what makes the villain the villain is hamfisted and comes out of nowhere. The pieces of the early parts of the movie that is used as "foreshadowing" do not work. And in the end, as always, everything is blamed on a mental illness that the writers (and Hollywood really) don't seem to understand.

I don't recommend watching this.

Saw it on a lonely Sunday. From the beginning I knew that it's going to be an utter crap. But I could not stop watching it.

If you want to know how bad a movie can be, watch this.

It almost had a happy ending 😭😭 I didnt know what was real and what wasn't throughout the whole thing. I thought it was a good thriller suspense movie.

I'd lick a 9v battery for 2 hours rather than spend the time hours watching this movie again.

This is bad. Kristen Davis is an absolute embarrassment....her acting is forced and cringingly awful. I can't believe Dermot Mulroney signed up for this absolute garbage. I mean he's not an Oscar worthy actor but he's worth way more than this. It tried so hard to be a psychological thriller and it fails completely and utterly. Avoid at all costs

Questions: WHO PAID FOR this trash to be filmed? WHO LET IT air after watching it? WHO rated over 2/10?

Absolutely one of the worst films I've ever seen! 1 star feels generous. Made no sense!

I will never get those two hours back. Don't waste your life on this. On my deathbed I will regret this movie.

Is that what it's like when you go to try on bras at a fancy boutique? It made me very uncomfortable LOL

It's the most horrible thing I've ever seen. I want to destroy my television and throw it in a bridge

Wtf even was that??? You know what, just throw the whole movie away.

The idea of this movie is not horrible. It's just bad and cliche 5/10. The worst thing is the acting. Omg it's like K. Davis never acted b4. So stiff, no emotion, clumsy much. The direction is also bad. Some stupid camera shooting... I want my time back.