Lots of classics and stereotypes here. Denny is a native American, as the line from the movie 'John Q' goes, he's a member of the slapaho tribe. He rapes and ganks a girl, utters the catchphrase "gotcha", and buries her body. The girl before she is ganked utters the stereotypical female in jeopardy line of how she will call the police. Didn't she realize when you are being attacked, the attacker will not stop so you can call the police? My early take was that he stays in shape by digging graves. Needless to say he's the Lifetime Psycho (LP) here. Body count: 1.I'll skip through the stereotypical rebellious teen and hands off parents to concentrate on the end which was really stupid funny (hence the high Lifetime movie score).Funniest line of the movie takes place when daughter/step-daughter Brooke asks LP if he is a psycho stalker and he says he is actually a rapist. +2 Lifetime movie points for that one.On Brooke's follow up call to LP, he is in the middle of having sex with Dana, but he drops her to take the call. LP stereotypically works his way into the family, but step mom has a bad vibe about him and puts in a call to his supposed employer. Somewhere in here he argues with Dana and ganks her the same way as the first girl, then buries her body. Oh yeah, she also used the 'I'm going to call the police' line while she is being attacked. Body count: 2.Step mom's follow up call is returned and she learns bad stuff about LP wile he is eating dinner with them. A big argument ensues and Brooke decides to leave with LP despite both 'parents' trying to stop her.At Denny's place Brooke sees a purse that belongs to Dana and wants to go home. He yells at her and slaps her again, then throws her onto the floor. I'm cheering for him: "Gank her, gank her!' We see now how truly evil Denny is- he is a tobacco user! Brooke is taped & gagged, and they go for a ride. Dana's brother Bryan calls and LP arranges to meet him, LP puts a serious beat down on Bryan, then curb stomps him, using his catchphrase from earlier. Body count: 3.The family figure out that LP is a convicted sex offender. They call Brooke, not the police (another Lifetime movie stereotype), and when step mom tries to call the cops, the line is dead- LP ripped out the line! Dad has a cell, but the plan is to go to the cops and call on the way. Meanwhile, LP has entered via a convenient unlocked door. Bro sees the door open and says nothing, closing it. As they are leaving, LP grabs bro and has a knife. LP makes dad smash his phone. Instead of going to the guesthouse for that gun, they comply and LP has step mom use some convenient duct tape to tie them up. He then knocks her out via a head butt and tapes and gags her.LP makes a call to his gun thug buddies to rip off the family. He has another talk with Brooke, who has been sitting in the car the whole time. After she sees what is going on, she is able to free herself in like 30 seconds. Should she run to a neighbors home? See if the keys are still in LP's car and go for help? Nope, she goes back to the house. Gun thug #1 is distracted by loud music. Brooke picks up a knife in the kitchen. Eventually Denny threatens step mom, uttering the catchphrase while she's at gunpoint. Brooke plunges the knife into his back, a fatal wound in other movies, but a scratch here. I guess the two gun thugs were on a union work break, but then there is a comedic fight scene. Step mom whacks Denny with a pan and then instead of picking up his gun, runs out the door. Brooke is now duct taped again. Step mom ran towards the guest house, uses some clippers aided by her large pecs to free her hands, and now has the shotgun, but doesn't know how to use it. Gun thug #2 enters and another funny fight ensues. She ends it when a convenient garden tool to gun thug #2's neck. Body count: 4. Another ridiculous fight in the garage and gun thug Jose is ganked by Brooke, bro, and dad. Body count: 5. A cop shows up out of nowhere and is ganked by Denny. Body count: 6.Denny uses the stereotypical talk don't shoot with Katherine and then Brooke who finally does something smart by playing Denny until dad comes out and is shot by Denny. Step mom has instantly recovered the shotgun and a standoff ensues with more talking on Denny's part and no shooting- seriously, he just ganked a cop and shot dad, why doesn't he just gank step mom? After some more fighting, to include a you can't kill the boogeyman move after being gut shot by a shotgun, as he is again about to gank step mom, Brooke hits him with his car.Body count: 7 (?) Denny was still moving.The next day all is well, no therapy needed, as the dysfunctional family that slays together stays together.One last point, a classic is LP driving a third generation Firebird. I was disappointed when he didn't have a Camaro and a mullet haircut. Had to deduct 1 Lifetime movie point for that omission.Real movie score: 2/10 (higher is better). Lifetime movie score: 8/10 (higher is stupider).

Well of course the film Born Bad is not very realistic but it is noteworthy from an educational point of view. Teenagers, especially females, fall prey to older friends all the time in an effort to be accepted by their peers. Before it is too late, if teenagers were to see this film it may wake a few more of them up to falling prey to peer pressures. Yes, I think the film went to extremes by attempting to demonstrate how a disturbed young man named Denny played by Michael Welch, baits his young victims by treating them as that "special one" and once he has their trust he abuses them to his perverse satisfaction.I do think a lot of criminals work in tandem to get the upper hand on their unsuspecting and innocent victims. Such as in this case we have three men who enjoy breaking in to homes and robbing their victims of their valuables.The young innocent girl in Born Bad is named Brooke and she is played by Bonnie Dennison. As in real life, we all know of some families who after the father and mother split up, the family decides to move and the new step mother and step daughter have difficulties in accepting each other as they compete for their respective husband and father's attention. Young Brooke who is looking for attention from her father falls victim to bad boy Denny's trap and she soon discovers Denny is not the young man with good intentions that she thought he was.As I said, the movie is not very realistic but I do believe that some incidents that occur in Born Bad do in fact occur in real life. Upon watching Born Bad some families may be able to relate to how their own young teenagers first got in to trouble. If you do decide to watch this film with your teenagers there are a few lessons in life that your kids could pick up on and avoid some of the pitfalls that Brooke and the other young ladies fell victim to Denny's evil plans. Born Bad is not a classic film, but it could help your teenagers avoid being born stupid. It is worth a watch.

I actually registered just to write this review. I do not like how the relationship between Denny and Brooke starts off. The portrayal of the relationship just wasn't very realistic and it went to quickly in my opinion. I have to say that the script was awful. Michael Welch was very good with the acting, but the plot was predictable. As the movie kept going it got a little better, but for me the characters lacked in personality. The quality of the movie was poor in almost every way. I can't get over how boring and dull the script was. The one good thing that came from this movie is awareness to bad people out there and that your kid could be infatuated with one.

The film had promise where a girl who dislikes her step-mother, meets a boy who seems to be the right guy for her. Of course, he has a terrible dark side.The film descends into madness and sheer terror once the guy finds out that her family is on to him. It becomes unbelievably violent as our culprit seems to have 9 lives.Violence abounds in this picture. Here we have a young lady who is defiant due to her dislike of her step-mother, who is pregnant by the way.We have the girl who realizes she has made a big-time mistake. Is it too late for her to rectify the situation?The picture also has the familiar tale of turning the tables.