Bumping this thread after seeing a pair of Lifetime movies over the weekend.
Now, granted, I don't normally watch Lifetime movies (ON THE 2ND DAY OF CHRISTMAS is a guilty pleasure of mine, if only because I'm a fan of Mark Ruffalo), and I don't even know what possessed me to watch these movies, but I did anyway, and while I wouldn't say they're the absolute creepiest movies I've ever seen, they are somewhat disturbing when you consider the subject matter they deal with.
So, both movies focus on a highly successful and respected heart surgeon played by Eric Roberts (who I swear is just Gary Busey pretending to be somebody who can speak coherently), who has a problem: he's one sad, pitiful, lonely S.O.B. On top of that, he's clearly mentally unstable as well. And his biggest weakness? Women. Especially younger women (as in young enough to be his granddaughter). In the first movie, he falls into a deadly obsession with his latest patient: a girl on the verge of graduating from high school and going off to med school, who was injured in a car accident because her reckless jock boyfriend was too busy texting to pay attention to the road. The doctor is so obsessed with the girl that he goes to great lengths to keep her all to himself, such as going so far as to kidnap the girl, fake her death, hold her hostage (and threatening to dismember her so she can't run away, fight back, or scream for help), and run off to Mexico with her. But, eventually, the girl does manage to free herself, attack the doctor, and run home to her own funeral, but when the police arrive at the doctor's house, he's already fled to Mexico.
The second movie is pretty much the same, but with some minor differences. This time, the doctor is hiding out in Mexico under an alias, and discovers another girl who is vacationing from California (who is also on the verge of graduating high school and go off to med school, big shock) who nearly drowns to death, but he manages to save her life with CPR. Once again, he develops a deadly obsession with the girl, but this time, his plan is different: he plans to get the girl through her widowed mother by hooking up with and marrying her. Come to think of it, this time too, he also plans on eliminating as many people in her life as he can to have her all to himself: he causes her to break up with her boyfriend (just like in the last movie), he kills her uncle in a bathtub by pouring giant containers of acid on him, and eventually attempts to kill the mother by pushing her off a ledge on their honeymoon. This time, however, the girl and her boyfriend (yeah, they get back together) manage to discover his true identity, and get the police involved who take him away. But there's another Sequel Hook: in prison, a young female guard chokes on a Snickers bar, and he demands to be let out of his cell to performer the hiemlich maneuver on her, thus saving her life . . . and when she tells him she owes everything to him, he says, "you certainly do," looks to the camera, and does a Wink-Ding. So yeah, there may be a third movie out of this.
The only thing that keeps these movies from being genuinely creepy and disturbing is that Eric Roberts is almost Nicolas Cage-level of ham: some of his crazy moments, such as throwing temper tantrums and having breakdowns (which were much more prominent in the first movie than the second) are so unintentionally funny, that it's kind of hard to take him seriously. Still, the idea of such an old coot who quickly develops such intense obsessions with his patients who are young enough to be his granddaughters is creepy enough as it is, and honestly, his little romantic fantasies that are peppered throughout both movies are pretty cringeworthy to say the least.