HAVE you ever suspected that there's a Peeping Tom watching you while you sleep, take a shower or shoving down your cereal?
Title: The Resident
Director: Antti Jokinen
Screenwriters: Annti Jokinen, Robert Orr and Erin Cressida Wilson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee, Lee Pace, Aunjanue Ellis, Deborah Martinez, Mark Morocco and Michael Badalucco
Dr Juliet Devereau (I just bit my tongue trying to pronounce her last name), played by the drop-dead gorgeous, Oscar winner Hilary Swank, finds herself smack in the middle of a psycho landlord in The Resident.
It's never a good idea to live with your landlord, particularly if he (or she) is your opposite sex, and especially if he (or she) lives on his (or her) own.
There's something fishy right there and it's a slow stinking smell of suspicion that maybe the dude (or dame) might just be twisted.
But because you've fallen in love with the pervert's apartment, you choose to ignore your fears and move in. The truth of the matter is, your "sick" landlord, who appears extraordinarily caring (and humane) at the time, knows the apartment inside out.
He's (or she's) the only one person who can have secret cameras and holes inserted in your rented place so as to watch you sleep, taking a bath or making out with your lover.
In the case of Dr Juliet Devereau, Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), her landlord, even built secret passages in the building.
Hell, he (or she - yep, there are landladies from hell too) could even videotape the whole shebang.
And it doesn't help the situation either if you, the tenant, finds the landlord (or lady) somewhat attractive or the two of you start hitting it off between the sheets.
Dr Devereau falls for this trap and regrets it tearfully when she and her ex, Jack (Lee Pace), get back together and jealous Max kills him.
Max is sick in the head and that's amplified when he murders his own granddad August (Christopher Lee).
The Resident attempts to emulate Fatal Attraction (1987) except that the main adversary this time is a male (Max) and the victim a female (Juliet). In the latter movie, happily married Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a torrid time trying to shake off the fatal advances of Alexandra Forrest (Glen Close) after the two have an affair.
Now don't be fooled into thinking that The Resident is all that. It's an okay movie with a few heart-rending scenes, such as when Max drugs Juliet and rapes her and when he hides under her bed and licks her fingers as she sleeps.
The film is shot well, but then again camera work is always good in any good or bad movie these days.
The storyline has holes through which you can peep and find gaping faults. You'll enjoy it if you're not looking for psychologically exciting entertainment. Have you ever suspected that there's a Peeping Tom watching you in your rented apartment? No? Yes? Go watch The Resident and learn a trick or two.
Is there a Peeping Tom watching your moves?
HAVE you ever suspected that there's a Peeping Tom watching you while you sleep, take a shower or shoving down your cereal?
Title: The Resident
Director: Antti Jokinen
Screenwriters: Annti Jokinen, Robert Orr and Erin Cressida Wilson
Genre: Horror
Cast: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee, Lee Pace, Aunjanue Ellis, Deborah Martinez, Mark Morocco and Michael Badalucco
Dr Juliet Devereau (I just bit my tongue trying to pronounce her last name), played by the drop-dead gorgeous, Oscar winner Hilary Swank, finds herself smack in the middle of a psycho landlord in The Resident.
It's never a good idea to live with your landlord, particularly if he (or she) is your opposite sex, and especially if he (or she) lives on his (or her) own.
There's something fishy right there and it's a slow stinking smell of suspicion that maybe the dude (or dame) might just be twisted.
But because you've fallen in love with the pervert's apartment, you choose to ignore your fears and move in. The truth of the matter is, your "sick" landlord, who appears extraordinarily caring (and humane) at the time, knows the apartment inside out.
He's (or she's) the only one person who can have secret cameras and holes inserted in your rented place so as to watch you sleep, taking a bath or making out with your lover.
In the case of Dr Juliet Devereau, Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), her landlord, even built secret passages in the building.
Hell, he (or she - yep, there are landladies from hell too) could even videotape the whole shebang.
And it doesn't help the situation either if you, the tenant, finds the landlord (or lady) somewhat attractive or the two of you start hitting it off between the sheets.
Dr Devereau falls for this trap and regrets it tearfully when she and her ex, Jack (Lee Pace), get back together and jealous Max kills him.
Max is sick in the head and that's amplified when he murders his own granddad August (Christopher Lee).
The Resident attempts to emulate Fatal Attraction (1987) except that the main adversary this time is a male (Max) and the victim a female (Juliet). In the latter movie, happily married Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) has a torrid time trying to shake off the fatal advances of Alexandra Forrest (Glen Close) after the two have an affair.
Now don't be fooled into thinking that The Resident is all that. It's an okay movie with a few heart-rending scenes, such as when Max drugs Juliet and rapes her and when he hides under her bed and licks her fingers as she sleeps.
The film is shot well, but then again camera work is always good in any good or bad movie these days.
The storyline has holes through which you can peep and find gaping faults. You'll enjoy it if you're not looking for psychologically exciting entertainment. Have you ever suspected that there's a Peeping Tom watching you in your rented apartment? No? Yes? Go watch The Resident and learn a trick or two.
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