thesar-2 Just to give you a frame of mind here: The Occupy Wall Street movement was much more exciting than this movie.Sadly, this was a waste of time and I know this because it's another movie that literally starts to leave my mind as the end credits roll. These reviews are the hardest to write due to the quickly vanishing thoughts and the fact I barely know what I just watched. But, I'll try.Not-Stephen Dorff is all-but locked into a rent-controlled NYC apartment after his grandmother passed on. Several people encourage him to stay put for just under two weeks to get a court order and assume the sweet lease. Only, Not-Stephen Dorff has zero patience and less mental capabilities. In other words, he starts to go mad. Maybe there are ghosts in the place, maybe it's rats or maybe it's his conscious…but he loses it anyways. Not sure if I believe it, but hell, I didn't spend the few bucks they did to make this. At least the movie started well with interesting ideas and the lead actor did put his all into it. So I'll give it those kudos. Just can't recommend and would advise just to watch the ten times more entertaining and similar '1408.'

philippsiam The cinematography is excellent and the production overall is good, but the story just doesn't go anywhere. So many leading clues that just don't connect with anything. Random plot points that never solidify into anything. Great going through until you reach the end and realize there is no payoff. Disappointing. I was captivated all the way through because I've never seen a film with such great lighting and angles and overall greatness just fart itself into oblivion so meaninglessly. Why on earth didn't the creators do something with all the material they had? The potential is there, and if you were to miss the last few minutes you may just think it is a great film. It is only in the realization that the film goes nowhere do you realize the fatal flaw of this film.

spiiidey-1 OK, I'm gonna write this short: This movie has some really nice shots, in the beginning it creates an interesting, little weird story, the acting is pretty nice ... BUT there are so many plot holes, so many stuff that happens without any reason, just for the effect and there's no horror at all. This movie is just a concept ... looks like they ran out of money and had to end it somehow. This is sad, because it really had a decent start and could have been a remarkable film. This way there is no comparison to any Polanski movie.Usually it's nice to watch a movie and in the end be left with a few questions to talk about and to discuss ... but here it's just too much. Why all this?

dschmeding OK, considering the plot about a guy who has to live 12 days in the flat of his recently deceased grandmother to be the legal tenant with a nice low rent in NYC no one would expect much. Sounds like a Scooby-Doo Movie with kids who have to sleep a night in a spooky house to win a bet.So my expectations weren't high and I have to admit the first 40 Minutes had me positively surprised because the location and weird atmosphere keep you interested. So in the beginning you take the whole strangeness of that guy in his huge flat, isolated with only a strange Doorman helping him get his groceries as weird foreshadowings of eerie things unfolding. People appear in the flat, others disappear, there is a strange hole in the wall and the main character gets more and more paranoid regularly stamped with "Day X" on screen to count the 12 days and announcing some terrifying finale. So I give to the creators of the movie that they managed to create atmosphere with minimalism but that just falls apart after 40 Minutes because then the strange incidents get tedious and don't follow any build up. Many things don't make sense and are never explained until the guy suddenly (really pretty much out of the blue to me) snaps and delivers one bloody scene towards the end that follows the whole strangeness of the previous minutes perfectly but is totally incoherent and random... and cheap considering a 12 day build up and then having a guy snap some hours before his lawyer knocks at the door.Spoiler alert.... If you go for the psychotic episode/its all just in your head motive don't drop red herrings all over the place that have no meaning whatsoever. After all the basic premise of granny dying with a horrified look on her face makes which is the base for everything here.... it makes no sense unless the whole family is genetically pre-disposed to schizophrenia.So watch the first 40 Minutes, enjoy the weird atmosphere and then roll the dice to decide if its a Paranoid Psycho or Haunted House Movie. No matter what ... this movie is totally random and the character development is ridiculous. There really are people randomly falling from the sky or appearing in the apartment dying of a heart-attack. When the credits roll you can't but feel cheated.