Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 03/15/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS2.0/DD5.1
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Live/Artisan
Tobe Hooper, who directed one of the truly iconic American
horror films of the 1970s,
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, offers his take on another well-remembered scare-fest of the era with this remake.
Steve (
Brent Roam) and
Nell (
Angela Bettis) are a young couple living in Los Angeles who are short on money -- she's just started work as a teacher, while he's a medical student doing his internship. They rent a flat in the Lusman Arms, a once beautiful but now decaying (and therefore affordable) apartment building managed by the sleazy
Byron McLieb (
Greg Travis), who tries to pass off the ramshackle accommodations as "charming" and "historic." Watching over the Lusman Arms beside
Byron is
Ned (
Adam Gierasch), a greasy simpleton who serves as the building's handyman.
Steve and
Nell haven't been living at the Lusman especially long when she notices that a growing number of young women living in the building have been meeting a violent death, and with some help from good-hearted part-time actor
"Jazz" Rooker (
Rance Howard), she begins looking into the murders and makes some disturbing discoveries about both the building management and her fellow tenants.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
