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Plot Summary
25-year-old Danny Hill just got the opportunity of a lifetime. When his grandmother dies, he finds out he may be able to take over the lease on her sprawling rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan's posh Upper West Side. The doorman and a lawyer convince him to lock himself in for 12 days, the time it will take to get the lease legally changed to Danny's name. If he leaves the apartment, the landlord will most certainly not let him back in the building; they would go to great lengths to get market-rate tenants in there. Desperate not to return to his dump in Queens, Danny agrees. But once he's locked in, Danny begins to hear strange noises. And unexplainable events start happening in apartment 1003: things he's thrown away reappear, uninvited visitors show up at his door, while welcomed guests vanish unexpectedly. Danny may not be the only OCCUPANT. Perhaps he should have stayed in Queens.
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Very good
I actually enjoyed this movie a lot.
Too many script rewrites?
This movie is disjointed and inconsistent in a way that may suggests that a decision was made to rewrite the script. It begins suggesting that it will be story of the supernatural, but evolves into another psycho horror movie. The latter is a genre I detest. In doing this it leaves a number of loose ends, unanswered questions, and conflicting details. Why are the claw-like scratches on the headboard? Why does the dying grandmother look terrified rather suffering a heart attack? Why are the doorman and the lawyer so anxious to have the main character secure the rent-controled lease? Exactly what happened to the girl, and the exterminator? A few red-herrings are always permissible, but no movie should be constructed almost entirely of them.
Don't bother - lacks substance.
This film really tries hard to be all indie and cool but falls flat when it comes to delivering. The plot is very weak and has lots of loose ends, the acting is pretty average and at the end you just end up feeling like you should have paid for a Reese Witherspoon film instead, which would have been more fun than this. There really is no sense to this and it feels like a bit of Donnie Darko meets The Others with a twist of Requiem for a Dream. Nothing you haven't seen before and it really tries so hard it's just painful to watch. Gets boring and VERY tedious after the first 20 minutes because it's the same over and over again.
Move along, nothing to see here.
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- $17.99
- Genre: Horror
- Released: 2011
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