I've Been Waiting for You (1998)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Sarah Chalke,(Sarah Zoltanne) has to leave Sunny California for a small town in New England and start her college year among a group of trouble makers, who for some mysterious reason give poor Sarah a very hard time. Sarah and her mother are staying in a very old house that has many tales from the past which most of the town people know about; and there is a certain curse that a girl named Sarah will return to their town someday and revenge the horror this person experienced years and years ago. This is an entertaining film, but keeps going around and around in circles and it becomes very apparent who the real trouble maker or makers turn out to be. You have seen films with a story line like this many times before.

i thought it was a pretty good movie. It was a little predictable, but it definitely outlined the way the "in" crowd acts to outsiders. The script was OK, the dialog was a bit stiff. It had some funny moments. It was worth watchingjust to see Markie Post fall down the stairs. Great twist at the end, too!! I was so sure that the guy in the mask was Eric! The first clue that Sarah isn't an innocent was the cat. If you are a Sarah Chalke fan, i would watch just to see her play a spooky character. As far as Punky Brewster goes, she never did a good role after that, and this was no different. I just don't see her as a catty teen.

First off I am a huge Lois Duncan fan. I am not however a fan of her books being made into TV Movies. The other one was I believe Killing Mr. Griffin. Another great book botched by TV. What I am growing tired of is the sterotypical Witch being portrayed in movies and TV. Enough already. How about a movie about an band of Christian killers? Of course that story will never fly. These type of plots are getting tired and old. I am also sick of teen movies as well. Movies about bored teens who read to many D&D books who go looking for trouble are as lame as they get. Let's get another thing straight historically. NO Witches were ever burned at the stake in the US. That was Europe. By the way the People killed in Salem were not Witches either.

This is one of those movies where the writers either had no idea who they were going to pin as the killer, making everyone a suspect, then releaving them of that position, and then making them a suspect again, until the ending arrives and the killer is revealed, and you're either completely untrhilled at the results or completely confused. I was completely unthrilled...with the entire story.I should know better than to expect anything from the modern teen horro genre after movies like Cherry Hill, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and others. One utterly predictable cheap thrill after the next. I guess I only expected different because Lifetime Television broke from it's usual string of wife-battering children-raped themes to show something a little more entertaining and only fictionally brutal. The short of it is this: a Californian girl is transplanted into a small town. But, it's a town with a legend of a witch hunt that lives on generations later. That is, the witch hunter's ancestors will wind up battling the ancestor's of the witch they killed some three hundred years ago. People are convinced that the new girl, Sarah, is the witch after many pranks gone awry and they're going to kill her unless she can reveal who is the real teenaged witch.The witch turns out to be this throwback to freddy kruger running arround in a cheap mask. The action in the film (i.e. teens running from their doom) is nothing rises to the level of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" that old kids show that used to air on Nickelodean in the early 90s. And the story is so ridiculous, you'll be pulling your hair out that everyone is so stupid. For example, Sarah pretends to read the palm of the head jock, Eric. So, she guesses the obvious, "I'll bet you're a jock [he is wearing a letterman's jacket in the fall], probably football. And I bet you drive a tricked out, jacked up SUV." And all of her enemies keep lingering on that as one reason why they know she's a witch even though all she did was state the obvious.Now, I never saw Sarah Chalke in much more than Scrubs and Roseanne before, but I actually walked away from this movie hoping to see her in other things. But, other than her charming performance, this movie is otherwise enough to make you gag.