suite92 Young man's (25 year old Danny Hill) grandmother dies; he comes by to identify the body. She was in a rent controlled apartment. The doorman's shyster relative convinces him to move in and stay for twelve days until he can get a court order completed. This should protect him against moves by the landlord to oust him. The apartment has 3500 square feet, and the rent controlled rate was 675/month, which is cheap for NYC.Cody drops by and stays the night. She had inquired at his work to find out where he was. She's gone the next day without explanation. Eventually he finds her camera and tries to reconstruct what she recorded.The landlord tries a number of ploys (cable guy, pizza guy, the painter, exterminator) to get him to come out and get locked out.The mirror scene is where the film jumped the shark for me: the mirror image keeps looking back and talking; the primary image goes quiet and turns away. Hm. The moving shoes was an ongoing joke I could have done without.The exterminator kills the cat. Gratuitous. Someone kills the exterminator. Whoever could that be? Also, who is the old guy who keeps showing up at the elevator?By day nine I had given up on the film. Danny had left the exterminator in the stairwell. The doorman explains how the exterminator has a bottle of heart medicine in his pocket. Amazing how that works. Later that day he re-finds evidence that the cat is dead.He gets into altercations with the neighbors when he starts hacking down walls in the middle of the night.Danny's descent continues after the landlord cuts his power. The doorman seems willing to enable anything Danny wants. He starts building with the materials the doorman brings.Eventually, though, they change the doorman. When the lights go back on, he loses it for a while, again, in the middle of the night. He gets to talk to the police. Perhaps that should have been a major clue. Then he finds the cat for sure.Day twelve. Danny's circling the bowl. He can't get in touch with the lawyer. He still has a dial tone. He loses it once again. He catches himself in one of his own traps.After Danny's dead, the lawyer shows up with the court order. Now Danny can leave the apartment safely.Joe, the old doorman, returns; someone else moves in. Someone who pays full price, I expect. The child of the renter views the full clip of Cody's video recording, including Danny dragging her dead body away.------Scores-----Cinematography: 6/10 The camera work uses some odd filters in several places. There are periods where camera shake is just too irritating.Sound: 9/10 The incidental music is about ten times creepier than the screenplay.Acting: 2/10 Van Hansis does not have the chops to play the lead. Unfortunately all the other roles are more or less unimportant and of little note.Screenplay: 4/10 Somewhat mysterious, but not engaging.

MissCookieMonstaaa I will start without spoiling anything and speak in general. I just finished watching this and I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. I do think it had so much potential but didn't quite execute it all right. I agree with many of the previous reviews. I completely understand why its getting mixed and mostly negative reviews. I would only suggest this to someone who has time to kill and likes this particular type of movie. I mean the kind that keeps you guessing but doesn't really explain much so you're left guessing. I personally found myself getting kind of bored in the last thirty minutes and I was wondering what is going to happen. I was just waiting for something to happen already... and not much happened. At the same time, I personally thought it had some good things about it as well. Such as the apartment itself, I thought it was beautiful and at the same time so easily eery all on its own. There were one or two moments that were really interesting, not necessarily scary. I think you'll either like it or hate it, depending on what you like in a movie its worth a try. My main problem and thing I want to point out is it leaves you with one too many questions. There are some specific things I wanted to point out that I liked and disliked about this movie. Maybe it will give others another perspective if they, like me, came here after watching it to get a better understanding and/or see what other people thought.*SPOILERS BELOW, STOP READING NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS*It had its good moments (to me). For example the mirror scene... what was that about. The silhouette before blog girl died, I didn't think it looked like our main character so it did freak me out for a minute... things like that. I just think it wasn't all bad. I didn't care for what happened to the cat (exterminator spraying it, then baked). I don't understand the hole in the wall. I don't understand the door man's MO... and a lot more I just didn't understand.I guess I'll end this review with my personal interpretation of this whole ting. For some reason being in that big apartment for so many days caused him to lose it. Maybe it was the pressure of losing the place. Maybe he was already to some degree crazy. Maybe it was a mixture of things that built up to our disappointing end with an impractical suicide. At the end we see the little boy watching the full clip from blog girls camera. We know that Danny also watched this, so maybe he couldn't come to terms with seeing himself kill her and then hide it. I thought maybe that's why the camera is found on the floor later, kind of smashed up. I still don't understand the hole in the wall, or if it was just a natural heart attack causing the grandmothers death, but I'm getting that this was mostly his insanity. Maybe the stapled wallpaper over the wall was ripped because he threw blog girl down there after killing her. Maybe later he tried to stuff exterminator guy down there but he wouldn't fit or was too heavy.I understand in this insanity (by his words) he rationalized by saying cops and such would come to the apartment if they knew about the exterminator dying. Then he worried about being kicked out of there so he felt he had to hide it. Maybe seeing his cat in the oven really pushed him off the edge. At first I thought he put the door up as a trap as he did with all of the wire and crap. Then he looks around and remembers what was and decides to kill himself. So I'm just not sure... as I said it leaves you with too many questions.

ishimoto6 This movie was great! I love psychological thrillers especially when they have relatively normal people go crazy. Any one of us could go crazy at any time. The acting was actually pretty good fora movie like this. Man if he had just held out a few more hours.. But wow what a way to die. I would have definitely picked something faster.I love how it has you thinking there are serious plot holes but don't worry they clear it all up in the end. Poor kid, I guess he's next to go crazy...Great movie! I can't wait to watch it with my friends!

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.