Blood on Her Hands (1998 TV Movie) User Reviews (9)

Sometimes, trash can be oh so much fun.

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 22 April 2023]

That queen of long suffering scheming and melodrama only has one goal in this soapy lifetime movie, to protect her daughter by getting away from her megalomaniac violent husband, and if she has to stoop to manipulation to get someone to kill him, well...a girl's gotta do what a girl's got to do. Susan Lucci, "All My Nominations", is sincere and convincingly delivers her lines, but she's still playing a variation of Erica Kane, a fun part for sure, but derivative and predictable. John O'Hurley went from soap hopping character actor game show host, returning to acting with such roles as the abusive husband of Lucci who will stop at nothing to keep her under his thumb, well, until he goes too far.

Stage and TV actor Philip Casnoff (once an "Edge of Night" D. A./TV's "Sinatra") is Lucci's lover who has allegedly hired a hitman to take O'Hurley out, and to bring this uniting of soap actors full circle Kamar De Los Reyes ("One Life to Live") is the defense attorney whom Lucci hires to represent Casnoff. Lucci isn't a one dimensional character as her love for her daughter is genuine and unselfish, although she eggs her husband on needlessly, spending his money obsessively and even tossing it in his face. It's fun to watch Lucci's scheming get out of control, eventually leading her into a sensual liason with De Los Reyes, getting more careless.

Lucci is a great femme fatale in this (Erica was never this deadly), as amoral as those 40's vixens played by the likes of Stanwyck, Luling, Turner and Greer, and achieves what she set out to accomplish. Certainly not fully realistic, but like a good dime store crime novel, fun to watch unfold. The daughter never seems to grieve for her father and is far too accepting of the line of step daddies and lovers in her mother's life. Beautiful sets and costumes accompanied by tight editing, decent photography and chilling music makes this one of the better Lifetime films of the 90's.

Decent Lifetime movie

[tampaaries · 5/10 · 5 November 2021]

I happen to catch this on lifetime many years ago, for what it's worth I thought it was a pretty decent movie, it wasn't a emmy award winning movie but it was still a good movie and Susan Lucci is f###### SEXY!

Crime Doesn't Pay?

[sol1218 · 4/10 · 16 February 2008]

**SPOILERS** A bit ridicules made for TV movie has sexy and middle age gold-digger Isabelle Collins, Susan Tucci,doing a number on every man she comes in contact with in the movie. First winning over their hearts then their wallets and then, when their no longer any use to her, thrown in the wastepaper basket like a used up Kleenex tissue.

Isabelle's first victim is non other then her abusive, on keeping Isabelle from raiding his bank account, husband Stewart, John O'Hurley. It's later in the movie when Isabelle gets very friendly with former plumber and now yacht salesman Richard Davis, Philip Casnoff, that she, without really telling him, has the totally love-sick Richard get a contract out on her unsuspecting husbands life. Getting this ex-convict, in fact as soon as he's released from prison, Daggett, Nicholas Campbell, to do the job on Stewart Richard soon finds out that he didn't get exactly what he paid, $15,000.00 in cash,for.

Getting a little too greedy Daggett not only blew Stewart's brains out but took a solid gold watch, that Stewart offered him in order to spear his life, as well. The watch was easily traced to Daggett as he tried to pawn it at a local jewelry shop where he was quickly arrested. With Doggett spilling his guts out on who hired him to whack Stewart it doesn't take long for the long arm of the law to arrest Stewart's, by hiring Doggett, killer Isabelle's husband to be ex-plumber and yacht salesman Richard Davis! Davis' arrest by the police happens just as he and Isabelle took the vows of matrimony in a local church!

Isabelle manipulates everyone, exclusively men that fall head over heels for her, to her advantage by getting them to do her dirty work. Always playing the part of the naive housewife or widow or lover or even client Isabelle seems to live a charmed life always one step ahead of the law and police. No matter what she does Isabelle covers her pretty behind so well that it's almost impossible to pin her down on any, in having others do them, of the many crimes that she commits, through a second party, in the film.

After screwing, figuratively as well as literally, her first husband Steven her second husband, for less then ten seconds, Richard and finally her, or Richard's, attorney Gavin Kendrick, Kamar De Los Rey, Isabelle knows that it's only a matter of time before the police get wise to her. With the D.A getting both Richard and Kendrick to turn evidence against her Isabelle now knowing that everything is fast closing in on her makes her final move. Getting everything in order, by transferring all her cash overseas, Isabelle and her 10 year-old daughter Ruby, Lauren Collins, shoot down to the passport office in order to get clearance, passports, to get out of the country.

It's then when the cagey and clever Isabelle makes her first and possibly last and fatal mistake in the movie. Isabelle is told by the passport clerk, Don Carrier, she'll have to wait a full 48 hours for her, and Ruby's, passport to clear! Just enough time for the police to find and arrest her! Outlandish ending that goes against almost everything and every ethic that's in a film noir or crime movie. An ending that will not only blow your mind but your concept of what's right and wrong in the world!

A guileless "Last Seduction"

[parky-3 · 23 February 1999]

A conniving temptress, as I believe these women are known under the circumstances, persuades her rather stupid lover to ice her husband. Heard it before? Yes, that's right, in the infinitely superior "The Last Seduction". Watch that, or do the garden, or walk the dog, but don't waste your time with this.

No Emmy

[valstone52 · 2/10 · 14 March 2020]

Susan Lucci can not act, even after all that time on All my Children she plays the same part. Non believable as a suductress. The only guy that was believable was the first husband. Richard and the lawyer looked like kids. Some of these reviews are badly written one just rambles on and on making no sense at all.

Nothing New In Misadventures Of Deceitful Vixen.

[rsoonsa · 4/10 · 26 February 2007]

A thematic staple of cinema since its inception is that genre involving seductive women whose wiles and means entice susceptible men not only into their arms but also into dire circumstances that typically will only result in jeopardy for the male victims, along with incertitude as to whether or not temptresses will be forced to take their medicine, and here Susan Lucci performs as a siren, although her acting chops from a primarily soap opera pedigree are inadequate to make her performance a credible one. Isabelle (Lucci), inconstant wife of venture capitalist Stewart Collins (John O'Hurley), begins a love affair merely for fun with yacht salesman Richard Davis (Philip Casnoff), simply a bagatelle for her but an earnest matter of the heart for Richard, apparently mesmerized by his lover while she takes advantage of his ardour by engaging him in a risky plot that will graduate into a scheme of murderous intent. When Davis becomes convinced that guileful Isabelle is a victim of physical abuse administered by her husband, he desperately attempts to free her from what he feels is a marital trap in order that he may wed her himself, coming to believe that the only clear solution to his plight will be found in a rudimentary essay at hiring a professional assassin who will dispose of the allegedly violent Stewart. In the wake of the hit-man's assault upon Collins, a pair of police detectives, performed by Joe Grifasi and Dean McDermott, become increasingly curious concerning Isabelle's possible involvement in the crime, while at the same time reality dawns upon enraptured Richard who might have to pay a dear price in return for his inamorata's maneuvering. Lucci and Kasnoff are properly cast as a viable pair of conspirators, each giving a reading that makes for a boring rather than charming set of lovebirds, but O'Hurley and McDermott offer strong turns in a film that suffers from a hackneyed scenario as well as uninventive direction and design elements. Released upon a Fremantle DVD, this largely lustreless affair depicting a man 'neath the spell of a seductress does benefit from top-flight visual and sound quality, and although no extra features are provided, the above-average production quality enhances able efforts from cinematographer Robert Primes and composer Stephen Edwards.

Who DARED give this movie a 10?

[yduric · 1/10 · 28 December 2004]

I am completely appalled to see that the average rating for this movie is 5.2/10 For what affects me, it is definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen and I still keep wondering why I watched it until the end. First of all, the plot is totally hopeless, and the acting truly awful. I think that any totally unknown actress would have been better for the role than Susan Lucci; concerning Mr. Kamar Del's Reyes, I think it would have been a better choice for him to remain in his "Valley of the Dolls". To sum up, it is total waste of time(and i'm trying to stay polite...) to avoid at any cost. My rating is 1 and I still think it is well paid, but since we cannot give a O....

just watched....blood on her hands

[mnwitkin · 3/10 · 2 August 2014]

Hmmmm.....i guess this movie didn't go as planned! Everyone has a flop from time to time. Seeing this, and I know I'm a little biased seeing my family portrayed so weakly but, ..compared to the real story..my family's story....you had all the wrong characters playing their parts!!! -was weak at most!!! The people in my family are very dominant! Susan Lucci??? Really??? So off lol more like Lucinda!!! Normally Greenwald prod. makes great TV movies. Hope Katherine's book is better!!!should have named it the lesser of two evils.her need to have him killed. And the lovers reasoning behind the murder for hire. We always joked around calling my mom "The Evil One"!

Hollow dialogues and insipid persons.

[lionel.willoquet · 21 June 2001]

Susan Lucci, sulphurous brunette, gives way, as often, in the arms of her lover, Philip Casnoff. And as usually when she returns at her, she kisses her daughter Lauren Collins before facing her husband, John O'Hurley, a fantastically wealthy financier... The heroine does not regrettably succeed in bewitching the televiewer. The dialogues are hollow and the insipid persons.