Surviving the Sleepover (2024 TV Movie) User Reviews

Vicious Fun!

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 26 March 2024]

This new lifetime teen thriller could be considered a darker version of Mean Girls.

We have a beautiful new teenager (Sloan Mannino) in town who quickly snubs the schools resident mean girl (Jenna Hogan). She is almost thrilled when she is invited to a sleepover at her luxurious home with her two friends who are more like her followers. Things take a wicked turn when this queen B discovers the new girl has the hots for her stepbrother, who she herself is infatuated with. While using a game to get her to admit it, things turn sour and this new girl will quickly learn that the queen has a particularly nasty and vicious side, maybe even a deadly one.

Definitely had some fun with this trying anticipate what would happen next among the four girls. The tension between Hannah and Melissa was absolutely perfect!

This one also touches on the theme of loss such as loosing a parent and feelings of abandonment. Any of these can secretly drive some over the edge.

Good lifetime flick!

Too slow and boring

[deedrala · 2/10 · 24 March 2024]

Surviving the Sleepover

Plotline: new girl in town starting new school gets invited by mean rich girl to her mansion for sleepover with mean girl's friends. Mean girl has ulterior motive which is exacerbated at mansion when mean girl's stepbrother/love interest shows attraction to new girl, which strengthens mean girl's plot to get revenge. Which leads me to my main complaint about this movie: there is no hint or mention as to the fate of mean girl Melissa at the end, after her attempts at revenge. Kind of frustrating to be left hanging, but I suppose we're left to assume that due to her young age and since no one was killed, she most likely went on to receive psychiatric help in lieu of criminal charges.

Pace too slow with boring plot. Entire movie could've been an hour long from start to finish with so little happening and quicker pace. And the female lead 'Hannah' was not a good actress. On top of bad acting, she seemed to be smiling in almost every scene she was in, no matter what lines she was saying.

Yet another 'Hannah' in a long line of Lifetime's same female names they use over and over and over: Hannah, Sarah, Allison, Ashley, Abby, Melissa, Maggie, Grace, Claire, Emily/Emma, etc., ad nauseam. As I've said in several of my imdb reviews, there are so many other names in the world, for example - 'Violet' in the recent 'She's Obsessed With My Husband'. FINALLY a different name used for a female character, which was a pleasant surprise.

Soooo tired of the worn out STUPID Lifetime trope of the person who calls police on the villain turning their back to the villain as they start the call, leaving them wide open for the villain to come up behind them with skillet/hammer/board/crowbar/poker/bat/whatever weapon they can grab and knock them out. The movie in which this happens the most is the aforementioned 'She's Obsessed With My Husband' - at least three times - when once per movie is too much/bad enough. Of course, if it didn't happen (as it never would in real life since no one's that dumb), then there would be no more action and violence and suspense and the movie would be over.

I realize no effort is ever made to try to cast parents and their kids - or siblings - who look at least somewhat alike or like they come from the same family, but this was ridiculous: Hannah looked nothing like her mother. In fact, Abby looked like she could actually be the woman's daughter in real life; they looked so much alike. I've never mentioned that before in my reviews because there's always the fact that the offspring could look like the parent we don't see - in this case, Hannah's dad. But there should be more effort made to have the kids look like the parent(s) in the movie.

All in all, a disappointment and time wasted on yet more below average LMN fodder.

Grade D / 2 out of 10.

Survived it, yes. Slept over it? Almost.

[egyszer-71243 · 2/10 · 29 March 2024]

Watching "Surviving the Sleepover" is an exercise in enduring disappointment. From the onset, it becomes evident that this film is a painful concoction of predictability and amateurish execution. It's not just boring; it's excruciatingly tedious.

The plot, if it can even be called that, unfolds with such blatant obviousness that it's insulting to the intelligence of the audience. There are no surprises, no twists, just a mind-numbing journey through cliche after cliche. It's as if the writers threw together every tired trope in the book without a shred of creativity or originality.

The technical aspects of the film fare no better. The sounds, the music, the acting-everything feels like it belongs in a high-school film project. There's a distinct lack of finesse, with performances that range from wooden to cringe-inducing. It's evident that the cast and crew are out of their depth, struggling to salvage a sinking ship with a budget that can only be described as pitiful.

It's frustrating to think that this "TV movie" wasted two precious hours of my life. Time that could have been spent on something far more rewarding. This work fails to deliver even a modicum of entertainment or substance. It's a hollow shell of what a film should be-a pale imitation of the real thing.

My advice? Save yourself the agony and steer clear of "Barely Surviving without Falling Asleep". Instead, invest your time in a movie that's worth watching - a film with real actors, a real plot, and a genuine story to tell. Your time is too valuable to squander on this abysmal excuse for cinema.

Surving the sleepover

[mpopomapaseka · 1/10 · 6 May 2024]

What a horrible show! It is poorly executed, bad acting, too slow and you might just sleep through it. No excitement whatsoever.

The quality is bad. The acting is bad. The actors emotions are just so off.

A very big NO! Don't waste your time watching. What happened to Melissa at the end? How did they get out? The knife scene was poorly executed.

Why did the guy look away when making a phone call? Melissa is too young to be acting all that brave, especially with Hannah's mom. This was not well thought through.

Hannah should've picked up that Melissa is a mean girl and her inviting her for a sleepover without even knowing her should have been an immediate red flag. So many loop holes in the story.

Better than you might think

[DebraIonaVogel · 10/10 · 18 April 2024]

This was a movie about mean girls...and one character that stole the movie.

Our protagonist, Hanna, is trying to help her mother recover from her husband's (Hanna's father's) passing. Mom is in the middle of building a new home for them, but stunted by grief, she can't seem to get the project finished.

Hanna and her mom are living in a motel in the meantime. Shes also trying to get through high school, but mean girl Melissa and her co-hort Charlotte are making her life miserable.

Thank God for their other friend Abbie (played by the beautiful Sage Moore) who is the only one with a heart. A truly believable character, she offers comfort to Hanna, but Melissa isn't having it.

The movie has twists and turns. Melissa turns out to be a lot "meaner" than we expected.

Abbie and Hanna need to lean on each other to survive. Although Abbie gets hurt, she turns out to be the strongest young woman in this movie.

It wasn't bad at all. Abbie (Sage Moore) is the most well rounded and realistic character and really steals the show.

Grab some popcorn -and an old friend- and give it a watch.