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I wanted to but couldn't!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

It was kindof predictable, but I liked it anyway. I liked the scenes, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan did an excellent job seeming both wholesome and kind in the beginning, and super creepy later. I had to LOL when he borrowed her toothbrush and licked her fingers in her sleep. Def major creepo factor! But funny. Give it a watch if you're just in the mood for a thriller.

This thin story goes nowhere other films haven't gone before with more excitement and meaning or at least shocks. The moody first 20 minutes quickly turn into a slog after a "twist" that any brief description of the film will spoil before you watch it anyway.Like all of Hammer films recent (rebirth films--and much of their overall output and reputation) this is handsomely made film. Though most of it takes place on New Mexico shot interior sets it all looks seamlessly like NYC and features good real NYC exterior scenes. But so what? Jeffrey Dean Morgan proves that he has limits to what he can do here. I like the guy as a performer and he usually makes anything he is in better than it was before he arrived. Take the way he helped the second season of EXTANT TV series for example. But his acting isn't up to what's required here and his general vibe is all wrong. He is totally miscast here and can't overcome that. He seems too natural confident and relaxed to be the psychopathic obsessive loner we are supposed to believe him to be. The more they put him in situations that are to show how creepy his is the more the problem becomes and the situations become borderline silly.Swank is equally miscast really, not being willing to do any nudity--which a film that partly is supposed to be about sexuality its repression and obsession--requires, and she never seems emotionally or physically vulnerable. Her talking about being exhausted or repressed just seems like dialogue, not reflected in how she looks or acts.Why she'd be interested in being in a film like this is a bit of a puzzle. Being the center of almost every shot and probably being the largest single dollar amount in the budget would be appealing, sure.The whole thing finally turns into protracted and not well done slasher chase scene inside the apartment's confined inner recesses.Though the same director went on to do PURGE--leading to a successful theatrical run of movies--he does little here to show he has much interest in the genre. Only the classy production values separate this from a Lifetime movie and the fact that it barely got released is no surprise. This would be a not--too--good episode of Hammer's own previous television series in the 80's and it's just not, as made, a feature or worth feature length.Music score is useless adds nothing to the characters or supposed scares. Mostly the middle hour of the film is dull and predictable.Christopher Lee plays a part like his friend Peter Cushing did or might have were he still alive. That part is the old man. Really that's it, that's his role. He seems a little threatening....once.Lee plays it with a vacant, almost lost, old man look--that is not how he, himself looked at the time--so it is a performance and his final scene is well done physically--as Lee was always among other things a physical actor--even in a role here that requires mostly no movement. But having him in the movie and doing as little as they do here shows another level of script and directing disinterest. Especially to have him "return" to Hammer to make a film they basically do as little as possible with him. Still fans will see the potential the filmmakers didn't.The whole thing hardly seems worth the trouble of being made or watched.

or: The Raquel Welch Clone and The Man With A Beard.Julia Roberts was too old to be cast in this film so the production company used her name and make-up artist instead. ''Names changed to protect the innocent'' as usual.If you enjoy voyeuristic phantasies, creaky doors and women in underwear you will love this pathetic attempt to publicly exorcise repressed cultural memories.Hilary Swank with her new dentures is sometimes alluring as the game-playing innocent abroad (3,800USD for an apartment?) but really, massaging moisturizer on your skin in your underwear is a long way from the director's couch scenario. The negotiations that must have taken place with her agent and the producer would make a film in itself.The morality tale is non-existent as it assumes that 'woman' has the upper-hand anyway in any relationship. She can pick and choose who she kisses and should not expect to be abused because of it. She can go to bed with whomsoever she wishes but, it must not be assumed that she does it for sex.One knows that the guy without the beard is really the one that Juliet wants. They slide off each other so easily. Exactly how she sleeps so soundly while being mauled by a pervert is not explained. Could it be anything to do with the amount of wine she consumes when she is not at the hospital trying to save lives or clubbing it or gossiping in the locker room?.As for Max (most villains are called Max in Hollyoodland) he could lick my pinkie anytime without all the fuss of constructing spy-holes. With the addition of a hood Jeffrey Dean Morgan becomes an embodiment of that rascal Robert Downey Junior. Presumably contracted with the proviso that he doesn't snort coke on set.The denouement is bloody and disgusting as befits the mainstream horror/popcorn genre.The moral: If your life depends on it, sod the Hypocratic oath .

In the deja vu land of recycled horror motifs comes a reboot of sorts for the legendary Hammer Studios. Cheated and needing a change of scenery Dr. Juliet Devereau (Hillary Swank) seeks a new apartment to fit within her 'meager' earnings as a New York surgeon (poor girl). Seemingly per chance she is offered a spacious apartment in a building owned by the charming, if somewhat off-beat Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his eerie grand-father August (Christopher Lee). Given the affordable cut-rate price Juliet decides to move in. Voyeuristic camera angles soon however suggest that someone lurks behind the wall of the apartment following every move of the unwitting object of obsession.Barely featuring the slightest hints of originality retreading well known thrills "The Resident" fails to offer any fresh resolution, somewhat surprising that Swank decided to personally attend to producing the stale script material. Disjointed at best the sole saving graces are the distinctive crazed gazes of Christopher Lee, which brings quality within his limited screen time, and a decent outing by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Max is initiated as an intriguing well-defined introvert with severe social disability, perfunctory suggestions as to his strongly skewed upbringing giving some slightly contrite backdrop. However any psychological depth offered by the oddly affable, if deranged, Max takes a hit, when the movie takes a utterly predictable turn into "Fatal Attraction" brutal denouement, throwing any pretence of a more complex thriller into the rabbit cooker.Derivative at best Swank fails to truly register, instead showing up as a cardboard character with no real impact on proceedings. And not even showing off a bit of naked flesh helps her case (or the movie in general for that matter). Several high notes of suspenseful build-up are registered, but far more memorable is the completely misplaced moronic concept to do a 'flashback' sequence, which 'unearths' the depths of Max's obsession. Not only is it overly long rehashing multiple scenes already shown to extend runtime by some 5 minutes, but additionally it is strikingly redundant, as the flashback adds absolutely no meat or true reveal to the story.