The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016 TV Movie) User Reviews

"Only you could buy a house that turns out to be a crime scene"

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 28 July 2017]

This Aurora Teagarden mystery finds out librarian sleuth looking to buy a house. The one she buys from Gabrielle Rose is the Julius House of the title. Made infamous by the fact the family who owned it a father, mother and daughter drove away in a car one night and just never came back. At least that's the legend of Julius House. Gabrielle Rose is the grandmother who inherited the place.

But demolishing legends in the process of solving mysteries is the Aurora Teagarden specialty. Just around the house she finds bits and pieces and one clinchable clue that makes this missing persons case a homicide.

It's a tale of greed, corruption, and young love run a muck. Note Yannick Bisson as Aurora's steady is really engaged in this mystery, Marilu Henner as Aurora's mother and Bruce Dawson member of Candace Cameron Bure's mystery club seem to hit a rocky patch in their relationship.

The one I would not want to be is Miranda Frigon who was on the original missing persons case. She definitely could get busted back to uniform for the boo boo she made.

One of the best of the series.

Love these movies

[ginrinker · 7/10 · 21 April 2017]

These movies are something you want to watch on a Saturday or Sunday. It's a good movie without all the blood and violence in them. It's more about a story then violence. I especially like the addition of Yannick Bisson of Murdock Mysteries as Aurora's boyfriend. Let's hope the writers can keep him in and move that story forward. It shows Aurora maturing. It shows the story moving forward. Something TV shows lack these days.

the frame

[Kirpianuscus · 27 February 2022]

The best part of series seems be the frame. The embroidery of humor, romance , apparences, old fahion misteries and simplicity well used. A film great for details, and, I admitt, for Yannick Bisson - Candace Cameron Bure, Marilu Henner -Bruce Dawson. Good job of Gabrielle Rose and, in same measure, nice house.

Aurora buys her first house and it comes with a mystery.

[cgvsluis · 7/10 · 11 June 2023]

21 dates in and Aurora and Martin's relationship is still on the rise. (Martin is counting their dates, because according to Aida they are not an official couple until they have been on 25 dates.)

Aurora finally buys her first house which is ten minutes out of town and infamously known as The Julius House, as it is involved in an old missing family case. When Aurora picks up the keys from Bubba Rankart, he shares a story about how the original owners boarded up a closet when the house was built. This of course sends Aurora on a mission to find it before she moves in...and find it she does, hastily boarded up with bloody rags left inside after finding a disturbing journal page from the daughter of the house.

"Ok wait...Is this Martin Bartell, former CIA agent, who told me he thinks we are alike and admired my suspicious mind?"-Aurora.

"Why do you have that look?"-Martin "What look?"-Aurora "Let's call it the thrill of the chase look."-Martin.

"Seems even sweet old ladies find you and your questions irritating."-Lynn

I love Aurora's new house, it is gorgeous! I also like the setting out in the countryside with fields on the horizon. This was a pretty interesting missing person mystery.

"I don't have a baseball bat or anything else I can hit him with. You know I told myself months ago that if I was going to keep hanging out with you that I need to invest in a baseball bat."-Sally

As a native Washingtonian I was happy to see actual stock footage of the real Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon...especially since the fictional Lawrenceton which is supposed to be in Washington State only gets stock footage from upstate New York...don't get me wrong I love the town and the waterfall they show.

I love the humorous stakeout banter between Ro and Martin. Still really enjoying the tight knit cast which works so well together in this series. I really appreciate that they keep the same actors. The friendship between Ro and Sally is wonderful...and the real murders club is fun and really gives this show a well rounded approach to mysteries.

Great twisted mystery and what really keeps this series in my top three favorites of mystery series on Hallmark along with Hannah Swensen's and Mystery 101. More romantic that some of the other films in the series. I think cosy mystery fans will love it!

The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

[JoBloTheMovieCritic · 6/10 · 20 July 2019]

6/10 - another Roe flick that fits right in with the rest of the series

Gone Family!

[Reno-Rangan · 8/10 · 14 November 2017]

The fourth film in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery film series made for Hallmark channel. Based on the book of the same name, the third director to helm a film in the franchise. I think it's all for good, because for me, this is the best one so far. Yep, I totally loved it, despite intentional storyline. On the other side, things have changed big and now it is a comfortably settled down series with pretty much everything compared to the earlier stage. Particularly, between the characters.

With the inherited wealth from an acquaintance, now Aurora is set to buy her own house. Her mother being a realtor, she finds a perfect house just outside the town. She carefully picked it because of more room for her book collections. But that leads her to involve in another mystery. The mystery of a family suddenly disappeared in a thin air five years ago. Being a viewer I said, not again. Because that was a too deliberate to kick start with what Aurora is good at.

Anyway, films need a start. Like there's saying in our local, 'leaving first is not matter, but coming first at the end matters'. Likewise, this film used such opening to a great level. Obviously Aurora finds a clue, to begin her own investigation. But the best part was she was not alone this time. As I've complained about a particular thing in the previous reviews, I think they had heard me. Well, this film was made and released before my reviews. So, basically, I felt happy to see what I wanted. A stabilised romance partner. The character Martin returned from the previous part. And hope he would continue in the next as well.

❝Only you would buy a house that turned out to be a crime scene.❞

Coming back to the story, they join hands in this latest probe. So they had to go places together, which nicely influenced the story to shape up. Because of handling the multiple situations at the same time. Then there's Sally, Aurora's best friend, a reporter, who I thought is a gap filler on the funny side. She had a few good moments, but not enough screenspace. I wish she gets more share, since she's a press which would benefit Aurora in one way or another to accomplish things.

The film also had a little time to focus on Aurora's mother's romance with her club member, John. He always backed Aurora for the common interest, but now caught between solving crime with her and romance with her mother. The cops too got a better understanding on her. Seems they have learnt she can't be stopped on her passion. Besides, it's helping them on what they had failed. In one of the scenes on the rooftop, when Aurora suddenly backed off, that was so perfect. If Martin had not been her behind, she would have fallen on the ground. That's funny! Anyway, the making says it was shot on the ground.

The whole gone family scenario was quite easily figurable. Only on theories, with a couple strong possibilities. But how it unfolded was really nicely done. I felt richness in the narration. Not just performances and production quality, but how it all shot, from scene to scene, frame to frame. This director is really good. The remaining two films in the series were also made by him, so I'm eager for that. Candace Cameron Bure was so good. Watching the installments, one after another, only making to like her more. Let's meet in the next part review. Meanwhile, check it out this film, and the whole series if you haven't already.

8/10

"Seems even sweet old ladies find you and your questions irritating."

[utgard14 · 6/10 · 21 November 2016]

Another enjoyable if not particularly riveting Aurora Teagarden mystery starring Candace Cameron Bure. This time Aurora buys a house that, of course, has a history that involves murder. I tend to enjoy the movies in this series more for the lighthearted fun aspects than the mysteries themselves, which are never anything special. This one has a Scooby Doo "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you darn kids" type of ending that amused me. I like this Aurora movie more than the last one largely because Lexa Doig and Marilu Henner get more to do. They're both great assets to this series but are often underutilized. For her part, Candace is likable as always. The worst part of the whole thing is the love interest, a former CIA agent played by Yannick Bisson. He wears eyeliner and spray tan and is really just annoying enough to make me want to turn the whole thing off, which says a lot considering how much I enjoy Candace, Lexa, and Marilu. He's the third love interest in the series but the first to appear in consecutive entries. I hope this doesn't mean he's "the one" because, frankly, he's terrible. Hallmark, if there are any more Aurora movies to be made, please kill him off or have him go manage a boy band. He's stinking up the joint.

Decent murder mystery..!

[kamalbeeee · 7/10 · 21 July 2023]

Protogonist buys a house where the previous tenants called as the Julius family, disappeared 4 years ago - something that excites Aurora(Protogonist)and her friends in Real Murders Club. They start investigating.

Really good twists and turns... There is no blood and horror scenes... Still one time watchable movie..

Protogonist buys a house where the previous tenants called as the Julius family, disappeared 4 years ago - something that excites Aurora(Protogonist)and her friends in Real Murders Club. They start investigating.

Really good twists and turns... There is no blood and horror scenes... Still one time watchable movie..

Week old popcorn has more flavor

[pensman · 2/10 · 4 January 2017]

My wife conned me into watching this because it has Yannick Bisson in it and I am a huge fan of Murdoch Mysteries. I gather that somehow this entry is part of a series based on the writings of Charlaine Harries who writes the Aurora Teagarden books along with a number of others. She must have those who like these Hallmark entries but based on The Julius House, I am not one of them. My major complaint is acting and chemistry. Is seems that either these are some of the worst actors ever or they are just phoning in their performances. And their is zip chemistry among this crew. Marilu Henner and Candace Cameron Bure are supposed to be mother daughter but they don't seem to muster any feelings for one another. And Yannick Bisson and Candace Cameron Bure who are supposed to be dating are about as romantic as wood. Even the mystery is dull. I didn't care who the missing family was or why they were missing. Even after we get the answers, I didn't care. Obviously there is an audience out there for this series, but why is the real mystery.

The Julius House

[coltras35 · 7/10 · 30 June 2023]

Aurora Teagarden looking to spend some of the money she came into on finding a home. And despite her mum, Aida's reluctance she shows Aurora the Julius house, the location of a mystery as just a couple of years earlier the Julius family who lived there disappeared when one night they went for dinner with a friend and were never to be seen again. With Aurora buying the Julius house her journalist friend gets to do a follow up on the mystery and as Aurora looks into things the more involved she becomes.

An above average episode with plenty of mystery to sink ones teeth into. Aurora purchases a dream house - it's a dream because a family who once lived there disappeared. She gets a chance to poke around. She finds a doll with a message in it, and something else horrid in the roof. The acting is really good - the characters come to life, which is one of the appeals of this fine series.

Update the juvenile clothing / hair of Aurora

[Originator1994 · 5/10 · 21 May 2017]

Not bad for "G" rated stuff. Wondering when they are going to dress Aurora's character like an adult instead of a 12 yr old. The dresses in most of the movies are juvenile, shorter than her juvenile coats . The hair looks like it has been thru a mixer and way beyond looking like an adult should. Same with the purses and shoes. Totally not adult looking nor are the lines she is given to speak. For someone allegedly with a masters in library science, she looks and acts like a teenager.

For me, Henner is not who I would have put in as the mother. Her superiority complex is beyond getting old . The new "boyfriend" is a lot more mature than Auroras character and seems out of place in that dinky backwards town. He can do much better that that. Falling for someone as very unsophisticated as Aurora is funny. The movies are good escapism but fear not, not even close to competing with anything else on TV.

It finally hit me where I had seen the "reporter" friend of Aurora's..she is the girl in the Toyota commercials. She also doesn't come across as too bright for a reporter. Guess its the small , backwards town ambiance

Families are not alway close

[ctyankee1 · 24 December 2018]

I thought the movie was great. Lots of mystery Aurora works in the library and has a mystery club. Her boyfriend is the cop that played Murdoch in Murdoch Mystery series.

Aurora is called Ro by her friends. She gets involved in a murder mysteries with a female friend who is a reporter and some of her mystery club friends.

This story is about a missing family that went out to eat and never came back. Ro bought a house she had a walk through with her mother who is a realtor took her in the house that was for sale.

Then the mystery begins when Ro starts remembering the story that was in the paper. The family disappeared and never came back and the police never found the people dead or alive.

Great story if you can watch it. I saw it on YouTube.