SYNOPSICS
Sinister Minister (2017) is a English movie. Jose Montesinos has directed this movie. Nikki Howard,Ryan Patrick Shanahan,Angelica Briones,Liz Fenning are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. Sinister Minister (2017) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama,Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A serial killer masquerades as a preacher in order to prey on women. His last wife may have committed suicide and his current wife is sick. Single mom Trish and her daughter move to town and are in jeopardy of becoming his next victims.
Sinister Minister (2017) Reviews
Good, but not what it could have been
Lifetime's "Premiere" for Sunday, May 28, 2017 was something with the risible title "Sinister Minister" (just try to say that without at least chuckling!), though it was filmed under the less silly but also less clear-cut title "Brightside" — spelled on the film's IMDb.com page as one word even though the actual name of the town where it takes place is "Bright Side" — two words. The film begins with what's by far its best sequence, a hot sexual encounter between the titular sinister minister, known only by his initials "D. J." (Ryan Patrick Shanahan) and a woman he's having an adulterous affair with, though he's feeding her the usual malarkey about how God wouldn't be making it possible for them to love each other if God didn't think it was right. Then D. J. receives word that his wife is dead — she was found hanged in their garage and the officials rule her death a suicide — and a typical Lifetime title advances the time frame to "Three Years Later." Three years later D. J. is the minister in a small town called Bright Side, the woman we saw him adulterously having sex with in the prologue is his wife, but he's already set his sights on her replacement — or rather replacements, since he's attracted to both Patricia "Trish" Corbett (Nikki Howard) and her daughter Sienna (Angelica Briones). Trish got pregnant with Sienna when she was just 15, though she must have married Sienna's dad, since he's discussed in the movie and there's no indication he's a step-parent — but the two divorced a year earlier and Sienna started cutting up, misbehaving, doing worse at school and smoking marijuana after her dad and mom broke up. Determined to keep her away from the big city and the kinds of trouble Sienna could get into there, Trish moves the two of them to Bright Side, where they check out D. J.'s church one Sunday morning. D. J. checks them out as well, much to Sienna's initial displeasure — "Mom, he's looking at my boobs!" she complains — and she makes it clear she's bored by the whole church thing and suspicious of D. J.'s intentions towards her mom as well as her. Mom, however, is enthralled by the church in general and D. J. in particular, and D. J. is so obviously drooling over both Trish and Sienna I half-expected him to announce to them, "I've decided to leave my church and become a Fundamentalist Mormon, so I can marry both of you." D. J. first sets his sights on Trish, offering her a job when her previous employer, the owner of the "Friendly Joe's" restaurant at which she was working as a waitress, fires her for taking calls on her cell phone at work. He's got a wife already, but a sinister car accident out in the boonies around Bright Side takes care of that little problem; he lives, she dies and the authorities call it an "accident." Then Sienna comes home a few days after D. J.'s last wife died in the "accident" and finds him and her mom necking on the couch, leaves in disgust and locks herself in her room to smoke pot. When D. J. tries to talk to her, she rather coldly informs him that his youth slang is about two decades out of date — presumably it was what was current when he was still roadie'ing for that mysterious big rock band — and Sienna is put out enough by her mom's actions with D. J. that when the two actually get married (with the ceremony officiated by the Black assistant minister in his church) Sienna is nowhere to be found, just as she bolted the funeral service for D. J.'s immediately previous wife. This being a Lifetime movie, most of Bright Side's little police force buys that the death of the previous Mrs. D. J. was an accident, but not female detective Leslie Mann (Rachel G. Whittle); she's already suspicious that the minister has lost two wives in three years, and she gets even more suspicious when Trish's ex, John Wells (Jeff Marchelletta), turns up in Bright Side. Shortly after he arrives, he disappears and ostensibly takes Sienna with him — Trish finds her room empty and she's left behind a computer-printed letter saying she's left Bright Side to live in the city with her dad — but then a couple of hikers in the woods around Bright Side spot a body that turns out to be John's. "Sinister Minister" was supposedly based on a true story, the arrest and conviction of Rev. Arthur Schirmer in 2013 for the murder of his wife Betty Jean in 2008, followed by his plea of no contest to a charge that in 1999 he killed his first wife Jewel — and it was in connection with the real-life Schirmer case that headline writers apparently coined the phrase "the sinister minister." What's weak about "Sinister Minister" the movie is that the writer and José Montesinos, who directed effectively given what he had to work with, really didn't offer much insight into What Made D. J. Run — a passing remark he makes towards the end about having had an overprotective mother is as close as we get to an explanation for why he's the way he is — and it also doesn't help that the casting person, Scotty Mullen, came up with three women, including Rachel G. Whittle as the woman cop, who look pretty interchangeable. "Sinister Minister" is frustrating because with a little more care, especially in the writing department, it could have been considerably better than the common run of Lifetime movies (where was Christine Conradt that week when they needed her?); instead it's just another sporadically interesting film in which Ryan Patrick Shanahan's performance as D. J. is neither subtle and complex enough to be a genuinely convincing seducer/villain nor flaringly psycho enough to make the character scary.
Better than average; interesting enough
I was originally fooled by the title, SINISTER MINISTER, but hung around to watch this LIFETIME feature. A charismatic minister DJ (Ryan Patrick Shanahan) charms a single mother Trish (Nikki Howard) into falling in love with him not much after his wife is killed in a car crash. She thinks the young minister is just the right fit to bring stability to her new beginnings with her teen daughter Siena (Angela Briones). Very soon Trish notices that her new husband seems to have an emotional attraction to her pretty daughter. Based on true events with legal ramifications still in Pennsylvania courts. Rounding out the cast: Sophia Thomas, Jon Briddell, Liz Fenning and Rachel G. Whittle.
Just another Lifetime soft-core porn fantasy film
***CONTAINS SPOILERS*** So here we have the innocent, charismatic "Man of God" who professes having a past fit for Satan (much to the joy and giggles of his small town congregation) who also is a beast in bed, slaying woman after woman (pun intended) without a flinch from society. Along comes his next catch - who moved to the small town to work at a diner and drives an Audi (did I see that right?). She has a daughter who is immediately creeped out by the Rev. Soon enough though, wife #2 is down for the count and within a shake, the Rev is making out with the new catch. Daughter catches them and is disgusted; she's been rebelling hard against mom and magically, Rev convinces her to cool it. He begins to draw daughter close while mom watches, seemingly creeped out. Rev and mom talk nasty in the bedroom while wife #2 is dying; nobody bats an eye. Things get super creepy when Rev gives daughter weed and they exchange perverted compliments. Daughter gets caught with weed, baby daddy comes to take her and then, for no reason, turns her over to mom while daughter is suddenly eager to leave mom (why does she hate her mom so much?) Blah, blah, blah.. on and on the twisted fantasies unravel.
Absolutely ridiculous, based on true events? Hmmm
The movie starts out with the daughter being a b!tch, I detected a little racism from the daughter in the beginning, but that was it, she just started acting super rebellious and stupid. Then the daughter, who didn't like the reverend in the beginning ended up being fooled by and falling for his BS. The mother was annoying and blind, whining and crying instead of just disciplining her daughter and staying away from DJ, two dead wives (suspicious) and she marries him. She wasn't sure if she were being poisoned or not until she guessed reverend "killer" DJ's laptop password to see what he was up to. The movie was rushed and the ending sucked, I wanted the whole town to see what he was.
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He is not a serial killer as stated. He has a definite sinister purpose of murdering his victims. The guy as a preacher equates himself to holier than thou, reciting from the scriptures repeatedly as if to prove his point. In the meantime, he is as sick as they come, finding his victim and when the latter no longer serves a purpose or may interfere in other designs, he eliminates them. He has already done this to two wives and he takes a definite interest in a woman and her rebellious daughter who have moved into town. Wife #2 is soon "liberated" and this modern day sick Romeo soon has designs on the mother. The cocky daughter realizes what this guy is up to and she soon becomes victim to his charms. When her ex-husband and girl's father enters the picture, he is conveniently eliminated as well. Only a savvy female police officer is able to put together that being widowed twice before age 50 is sending up a red flag.