YMMV / Stalked By My Mother

• Hilarious in Hindsight: There's a character named David Underhill. A real actor named David Underhill appeared in the 2021 Lifetime movie The Secret Lives of College Freshmen.
• Rooting for the Empire: As mentioned below, Claire's unlikability combined with the truly tragic backstory and admirably clever tactics of Lucy/"Gina" might make you take the side of the latter in the story.
• Special Effects Failure: The house explosion shown in the distance at the climax couldn't look any more fake, starting with a time bomb somehow producing a huge fiery plume.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Mim Drew as One-Scene Wonder Vanessa Underhill, the drunken widow of David Underhill, gives a very intense, realistic performance that sticks out like a sore thumb in a movie that's basically become a Live-Action Cartoon by that point, like she somehow teleported from a Tennessee Williams play into a campy Lifetime Thriller.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: As a young girl, Lucy Underhill's father was Driven to Suicide after Claire Beauregard falsely accused him of an attempted kidnapping, with Lucy witnessing her father's bloody death. Grown-up Lucy/"Gina" does some pretty nasty stuff to the Beauregards, but given her backstory, you still feel sorry for her.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Claire fits the mold of a Lifetime Mama Bear, but she's a rather miserable human being. A self-centered, tart-tongued Drama Queen who lacks any sense of boundaries, she mistrusts her own daughter. She tries to make the Freudian Excuse of being traumatized when a man tried to kidnap Maddy, but that's not what really happened—she left Maddy unattended, and a good-hearted schoolteacher (who no doubt empathized with a little girl being left alone in a strange place) tried to help her, but Claire freaked out when she saw him and wouldn't listen to his explanations. Thus, her neurotic attitude toward Maddy is purely her own fault. And yet she's ultimately the hero. And to twist the knife further, the Here We Go Again! ending shows Claire following Maddy to another party, suggesting that she's learned nothing about how unhealthy her overprotectiveness is. She might have been intended as a Deconstruction of the Mama Bear, but the movie ultimately wimps out and mostly lets her off the hook (though, with her daughter in jail and her husband in the hospital, she experiences a bit of a Trauma Conga Line).