Main cast: John Saxon (Benjamin O’Connell), Lisa Waltz (Catherine O’Connell), Christian LeBlanc (John O’Connell), and Denise Gentile (The Woman in the Room)
Director: Philip Alderton

The Waiting Room manages to get John Saxon—rest in peace, hot daddy—in a lead role, and proceeds to squander the opportunity. Sigh, Monsters will always Monsters.

Benjamin O’Connell was seduced into sexy times with a Mysterious Woman in a dark room during his wedding night. This woman and her room can show up behind any door whenever there is no light, and when Benjamin ran away from her after swearing that he’d be with her forever, the room started showing up everywhere he went, until eventually he started having the lights always switched on all around him. The woman had their child, and Benjamin said that the child is “half-human, half-nightmare”.

Here is where the story becomes absurd. His son with his wife, John, has recently married Catherine, and for some reason, John not only tags along with them on their honeymoon, he insists that they spend the night at the same hotel where he and his wife did, with John and Catherine in the same room where he and his wife did. It’s also the same room that was taken over by the mysterious woman.

So, why is Benjamin surprised when the woman kidnaps John as an attempt to force him to see her again?

Why does he even insist that his son spend the night in the hotel? If he genuinely wants to trade his son off to the mysterious woman, that will make sense, but he instead acts like he never planned any of this and he is even shocked by what happened.

Anyway, if asked to choose between her husband and her father-in-law, Lisa will chose the former. Now she has to figure out how to send Benjamin to his clingy girlfriend and get her husband back.

John Saxon is as always up to putting on a good show, and Denise Gentile has the looks and cleavage to pull of the otherworldly femme fatale nicely, but the actors playing Catherine and John are one note bores.

Still, perhaps Mr Saxon could have salvaged this one had the script been better. Alas, the story is nonsensical for the most part, so this one misses the bullseye completely.

Seriously, this show has John Saxon, and it still can’t deliver. What is wrong with the people behind this show?

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