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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Very Underrated in my opinion, 5 August 2005
10/10
Author: WillowWisp07 from United States

This is a clever fun interesting movie that is not very popular at all. If you liked Scream and I Know What you Did Last summer you would definitely enjoy this movie. Its not extremely gory or bloody, so people are sensitive to that will not have to worry. Its not very frightening but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.The characters are likable and interesting with fun young actors and actresses. But mostly the story is very intriguing and once you see it you have to finish so you know whats beneath the mystery. So its not the next blockbuster or the scariest movie of all time but its definitely 100 percent worth the view!

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7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Excellent movie!, 15 December 2000
10/10
Author: lia-12

This is one of my favorite TV movies ever! IT was really good. It wasn't bloody or violent but it was still very good! The acting is great. I was impressed most by Sarah Chalke. She is excellent! I encourage everyone to go out and rent it today! (It is now available for sale and rent.)

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Passable, but extremely tame horror film is best for younger genre fans., 9 July 2003
4/10
Author: capkronos (capkronos00@hotmail.com) from Ohio, USA

Single mom Rosemary Zoltanne (Markie Post) and her smart-ass teen daughter Sarah (Sarah Chalke) move from L.A. to a big house in Massachusetts where a witch was burned at the stake 300 years earlier. Sarah makes friends with a geeky outsider (Ben Foster) but also attracts the attention of teen members of the "Descendant's Club"-- obnoxious jocks (led by Christian Campbell, brother of Neve) and the high school bitch queens (led by Soleil Moon Frye) who think she's the reincarnation of the dead witch. Sarah gets harassing phone calls ("I've been waiting for you!") and a masked killer with a steel claw lurks around.

This is resolutely typical post SCREAM/I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER fare (supposedly from the "author" of the latter) with offscreen violence, but the performances are surprisingly good and it's watchable, though it all seems like a big build-up to nothing by the end.

I didn't know it at the time when I rented the video, but frequent fade-outs to black and someone credited with the teleplay soon made me realize I'd rented a TV movie that was inexplicably (and erroneously!) rated R to bulk up it's distribution value. Don't be expecting to find gore, nudity or four-letter words in this film.

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Great!, 29 October 1998
Author: Scream-7 from Iowa

I was only going to watch it cause on the commercials it said it was made by the creator of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Of course they mean the author Lois Duncan, not the writer Kevin Williamson. It was cool! Too bad it was on TV. Cause if it were, the body count would be higher, there would be more violence and there would be some cursing. But still cool and scary, although only one part made me jump. Hope it gets released on video pretty soon.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Good Scary Fun!, 18 May 2003
10/10
Author: (moonlighting35@yahoo.com) from Pittsburg, PA

I saw this when it first aired on TV and thought that it was really good for a made for TV movie. I have since then found the vhs on ebay that is now oop. DVD is now available. It reminded me of some of the TV scary movies I saw as a child in the seventies. It has good scary fun without all the blood and gore. Sarah Chalke movies from California to New England. She and her mom resides in an old house that was occupied by a witch that was burned for killing a man she loved a couple hundreds of years earlier.. Sarah finds herself caught in a scary twist of fate when the decendants of the murderers thinks that she was re-incarnated to take revenge on them. IF you are not into blood and gore but just clean scary stuff...it's a must see.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Scared Me To Death, 27 December 2002
Author: FemmeBikerFaery from Houston, Texas

I saw this movie when I was eleven, and I haven't seen it since. I was absolutely scared out of my wits, now as for the acting- -well it wasn't so bad! Sarah Chalke-who had a small stint as Becky no.2 on the Roseanne show-is very pretty, and a pretty talented actress, I know that the other guy who gave a review for this totally bashed it, but I saw it on T.V one time, and it was good enough for me to go searching about it on IMDB. The Story is basically about a teen age girl named Sarah who is very pretty, but a little strange. She lives with her single parent mother, and moves to a new town where she knows no one and has no friends- -excepting some strange curly headed blond kid-played by Ben Foster from the kid's show Flash Forward ever see it on Disney?-Who has a big crush on her. She likes the hunk in town-Who I think has great eyes if nothing else-played by Christopher Campbell-who just happens to be Neve Campbell's kid brother-Now of course the hunk in town has a super snotty girlfriend who makes fun of the somewhat strange Sarah because she's prettier than she is and her boyfriend is crushing on Sarah. Anyway! There is a serious witch burning legend about a girl that lived in Sarah's house and was accused of being a witch- -thus she was burned! Then as a joke Sarah is wrangled into being the 'Psychic' and some stupid teenage party or carnival, she doesn't have to be wrangled too much seeing as how she's in love with the hunk in town. So Turns out that kid's are being killed, lot's of them, and they die of natural causes--A Heart Attack! They are being scared to death by someone dressed up in a witch's outfit! Is it the dead witch's ghost come back for revenge? Is it Sarah? Is Sarah inhabited by the dead witch's spirit?! WHO WILL DIE NEXT!? Watch this movie! It was made for T.V- -but it is a down right scare-you-to-death, make-your-hair-turn-white! MOVIE! Final words: For a T.V Made flick FIVE STARS!

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Better Than Expected, 20 April 2001
8/10
Author: Elfie-5 from North East

I rented this movie with the hope that it would be half-way decent despite it having been a made-for-tv movie. It was a lot better than I was expecting. I especially liked the party scene. It was a nice change from horror movies where the majority of the cast is killed in gruesome ways. Not a bad rent at all. 8/10

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Another Reward For Ben Foster!, 4 November 2005
10/10
Author: BreanneB from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Another one of Ben Foster's great performances. Iam one of his and his brother Jon's biggest fan's. They both do a great jobs acting. This movie had everything in it, great acting especially by Ben, costumes, production, directing and script.

I think that it was a perfect choice to have on for a Halloween movie the day before. Lifetime made a great choice. I had to tape it because I love Ben so much. I could not believe that the killer was Charlie and not a spirit from long ago when this murder happened. This movie also teaches the important lesson that you should never spread rumors about someone or make fun of them.

Kudos to the cast, crew and filmmakers. 10 out of 10 stars. Two Thumbs Way Up!

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Minor anachronisms, but still watchable, 14 July 2005
5/10
Author: capncrusty from United States

I suppose I shouldn't worry to much about such things in modern movies, particularly the made-for-TV variety, but the anachronisms were just a bit much for me. For instance:

The film's action takes place in Massachusetts; central to the plot is the story of a burned-at-the-stake witch whom apparently used to live in a certain house. Said burning occurred during the Salem witch hunts of 1692, but the house is an unmistakable Victorian. It doesn't take an expert to realize that the style is eponymous with the English Queen, which meant that it couldn't have existed in that form until the mid-1800's, at least 125 years after the murder.

The accused witch, according to the (twenty-something) "high-school kids", supposedly was kept in a "straight-jacket in a padded cell in an asylum". I don't believe any of these things existed in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts; and even England's notorious Bedlam was more of a convenient dump-site for loonies, rather than a real mental institution.

And for a three-hundred-year-old tombstone, particularly one exposed to the corrosive effects of urban New England's infamous acid rain over a good part of that time, the carving sure looked sharp and fresh.

Otherwise, I rather enjoyed "I've Been Waiting for You", simply because, like most "slasher flicks", it gives me--someone whom worked at a state university for over a quarter-century-- the opportunity to watch college-age kids get tormented--even unto death.

Mmmm...yes....

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
cheesy, but fun, 13 March 2006
8/10
Author: g404c

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I saw this a couple of nights ago on Lifetime Movie Network, having never seen it before. This was like, attack of the mid/late '90s big time. Riding the wave of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Charmed, and even Clueless, I've Been Waiting For You has some elements from all the movies and the TV show I just mentioned. It is just the smaller-budget version.

Sarah Chalke is Sarah Zoltanne, a high school senior who has just moved with her mother from L.A. to small town Massachusetts. The moment she arrives she has a bad feeling about her house, which she learns was home to a supposed witch centuries before. She is shunned by her new classmates at her new school for dressing "weird" and for hanging out with the black sheep, Charlie (Ben Foster). One of the popular guys (Christian Campbell) does takes an interest in her, though. I do not want to give anything away, so I will leave it at that.

I would bet the makers of this movie, along with the actors, had a good time while making this--it is total fluff. See it and you'll see what I mean. Director Christopher Leitch (who also directed She Fought Alone) does a nice job here. I recommend I've Been Waiting For You, mainly due to the nostalgia of the '90s. This movie is soooooo '90s--the phrases, the jokes--it is pretty hilarious. It is also really fun. Do not expect much and you should enjoy this.

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