lukem-52760 This was a very violent & grungy & gritty & grimy 80s gang film but it was an interesting watch to see who would survive the night & how they would be killed off.The apartment is a big old tenement building that is grimy & run down & these small group of ordinary all very different characters have to basically just survive the night as their building is attacked by a viscous psychotic street gang & it's crazy & very bloody.Acting is ok sometimes good & sometimes ridiculous but hey IT'S a low budget 80s film so just what i expected, i really wanted PAUL KERSEY (Bronson) from the excellent DEATH WISH FRANCHISE to turn up & just shoot the gang & save the day but hey that was my fantasy lol but yeah this was a good film but some choices the tenants make are so STUPID they deserve to die!!! Not too bad but not up there with the likes of the similar DEATH WISH 3 (1985) & ENEMY TERRITORY (1987) both BRILLIANT!!! Still this little grindhouse Thriller is a good watch even is some scenes are too sick!!! The urban decay south bronx setting really has a gritty scary atmosphere & this film uses all that in the hopelessness & we're on our own SURVIVAL instinct & IT'S great fun

Paul Day I'll be honest - I couldn't finish this. I'm not sure I've ever seen a b- movie try so hard to be pretentious. It comes of like Plan 9 meets Grand Hotel. A full 20mins gets taken up establishing the apartment building that will be terrorized. Worse, it comes with time stamps as if there's some sort of urgency in the blandness and horrible acting to follow. It's hard to know if the lead villain is Hispanic or a French guy doing an Hispanic. Another small quibble - why are villains all dressed up like BDSM submissives? One would think they'd want to dress a little more dominant. This is a poorly written, directed and thought out piece of crap with literally nothing to recommend about it.

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~"Tenement it's a place to live some look so bad make you wanna shed tears." Tenement: Game of Survival is a tale of urban decay from Roberta Findlay (Blood Sisters, Snuff). Yes, women can make trashy exploitation just as well as men. Perhaps better. This movie has one scene in particular that goes further than anything in Last House or I Spit on Your Grave. I found myself covering my mouth with my hand! You'll know the scene if you've watched the flick. Actually, I'm going to spoil it: A woman is raped to death with a broom and her 6-8 year old daughter sees the aftermath. It was pretty shocking even to me, and I've seen plenty of trashy movies. The storyline is similar to Death Wish 3...only without Charles Bronson. A gang is hanging out in the basement of a building where one tenant has had enough. He calls the cops and the gang is arrested. Unfortunately, the punks are soon released and swear vengeance on all the tenants of the building. Before you can say Assault on Precinct 13, the gang is fighting their way through the building killing everyone. One complaint I had is that I would have liked to get to know the tenants a little better, specifically Mr. Washington. There are some things left unsaid about his character. Was he a Vietnam vet, or just the bada$$ super? The gang members were also one dimensional characters who are only amused by death (even if it's one of their own). I didn't really care when they killed the tenants, and on the other hand, I didn't find myself cheering when they were killed like I should have been. I think the movie is a bit of a failure in that regard, but it's still watchable. I really wouldn't mind seeing this one get the remake treatment. The acting is terrible all around with few exceptions. Those being Joe "Mr. Washington" Lynn, Dan "Cigar Face" Snow, and the always underrated Paul "Always Underrated" Calderon.

christopher-underwood This movie, of course, has it's fans but I just found it tedious. It is not the constant shouting, running up and down the stairwell and the bloody violence that is in itself boring but the manner in which it is depicted. The direction is all over the place, sometimes really effective but often embarrassingly poor. Even without a storyline and with over and under acting, if the vision of the director is focused then we as the viewer can indulge in the resultant movie, be it good, bad or indifferent. The inconsistency continually forces us to reappraise what it is we are watching and with 'Tenement', we are bombarded throughout with clichéd situations, dialogue and camera angles. Were this a film made by complete amateurs, strangely I think it would have been better. It is the very existence of occasional effective moments that continually makes one so aware of the trashy, carelessness of so much else.