Apartment 1303 (2012)

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Movie
Original title Apartment 1303
Country of production USA
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Taverna
script Michael Taverna,
Kei Oishi
production Cindy Nelson-Mullen ,
Michael Taverna
music Davy Bernagoult ,
Yoann Bernagoult
camera Paul M. Sommers
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Apartment 1303 is an American - Canadian horror film released in 2012 . It is a remake of the 2007 Japanese film of the same name.

A young woman moves into her first own apartment. However, the ghost of a girl who jumped out of the window from the 13th floor 20 years ago does not tolerate new residents. After two nights of fear and terror, she too succumbs to her fate and involuntarily falls from the apartment onto the street. The victim's sister as well as her friend want to get to the bottom of the secrets of the apartment and spend the night in the apartment themselves. A decision that not only causes a lot of horror, but is also fatal.

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The teenage Janet can no longer take it at home with her alcoholic and freaking mother, the former successful country singer Maddie Slate. After another argument, she decides to rent an apartment so that she can stand on her own two feet from now on. Janet rejects the advice of her younger sister Lara to look into several apartment offers and immediately signs the first lease she has been offered.

A mother and her daughter lived in this apartment 20 years ago. Since the latter, Jennifer Logan, felt misunderstood and tormented by her mother, she murdered her and hid the body in a closet. When the rotting corpse was discovered six months later due to the foul smell and the girl was to be questioned by the authorities, she jumped from the balcony to her death. But the girl's ghost has lived on in this apartment ever since and is responsible for the fact that all subsequent tenants, all of them young women, threw themselves from the balcony with suicidal intent.

Janet happily moves into her new home, but already the first night is a horror experience for the young woman. On the one hand there is the grim, sexually intrusive caretaker O'Neil and on the other hand Emily, the silent little girl who plays monotonously with a ball in the hallway, which makes Janet feel queasy. Strange noises, silhouettes darting past the bedroom door and an occasional, foul smell make Janet doubt her choice of apartment from the very first night. In addition, Janet's body shows several small, inexplicable (caused by the spirit of the deceased girl) injuries the following morning.

Janet seeks help the next day from both her sister and her friend Mark, an undercover cop. The latter reluctantly agrees to spend the following night in her apartment. When he leaves the apartment early in the morning, unnoticed by Janet, the ghost girl strikes with all her might and pushes Janet down through the window. This lintel from apartment 1303 also suggests a suicide.

Now Janet's sister Lara falls under the spell of the evil forces emanating from Apartment 1303. During the night she received a cell phone call from her dead sister, and when she went to the apartment the next day, she was beaten by her sister's ghost. Lara dials the police emergency number and reports an attack. When Lara learns from the arriving inspector what bizarre stories shape the past of this apartment, she can no longer be prevented from moving into the apartment herself to get to the bottom of the truth. Just like her late sister, she also sees the apartment as an opportunity to escape from her hysterical mother.

Since Mark is also interested in finding out the secret of the apartment, he spends the following night on the couch in the apartment. Although the ghosts of the dead were buzzing around the apartment that night, nothing else happened. The following day Lara can no longer distinguish between fiction and reality when the dead Jennifer appears to her both in the morning in the bathtub and in the evening in the closet and she is warned by her sister's ghost in the bathroom.

To protect Lara, Mark spends another night on the couch in the living room. There he is attacked and fatally injured by the girl's ghost. Lara tries to escape from the apartment, but is prevented from doing so by O'Neil and Emily in the hallway. She armed herself with a kitchen knife when her mother unexpectedly entered the apartment. Since Lara holds the knife in her hand, the mother thinks her daughter is Mark's murderer and wants her to hand over the knife. At this moment the apparition pushes Lara's mother from behind, so that she falls into the knife held by Lara and dies.

The commissioner investigating these deaths accuses Lara of being a double murderer and arrests her. Lara protests her innocence and names Jennifer Logan, a girl who died 20 years ago, as the perpetrator.

Details about the film

  • The shooting (interior shots) took place in Montreal , the action itself takes place in Detroit .
  • The film was also released as a 3D film on Blu-ray Disc in April 2014 , in the German language version under the extended title "Apartment 1303 3D - Are you still living or are you already dying?"

Differences to the original 2007

The 2007 film directed Ataru Oikawa . The two sisters were played by Aki Fukada (as Sayaka) and Noriko Nakagoshi (as Mariko).

In contrast to the remake, the film from 2007 shows in detail the events of the young girl who (only 3 years ago) murdered her mother and then jumped into the depths herself. While in the adaptation of 2012 the “older” sister stayed alone in the apartment when she died, in the original the “younger” sister jumped out of the window in front of her guests during a party for the inauguration of the apartment. In contrast to the remake, your friend no longer has any influence on the plot of the film. The siblings' mother is not addicted to alcohol, but suffers from severe depression. In contrast to the remake, in the original a group of young people moved into the apartment, from whose group there are three other victims. In the original, too, the sister tries to clear up the events after being informed about the past of the apartment by the police detective, and she is also plagued by delusions and ghosts (e.g. cell phone call from dead sister). While the sister survives in the remake, the original ends with her fatal fall out of the window.

Reviews

The majority of the film received bad reviews on film portal sites and in film forums.

  • The Internet platform Angstrated evaluates the film as a cinematic catastrophe, which pulls the term horror film in the mud and has absolutely no right to exist.
  • The Internet platform Filmbessprechung.de writes about the film: The remake of a Japanese horror film is an impertinence; the plot falls from one script hole to the next, the actors are dragged along, and the cameraman takes revenge by meticulously recording everything.
  • The Internet platform Filmchecker draws the conclusion: Dark ghost drama for fans of subtle spooky films. The understandable sense behind the realization of this remake will probably never be found out.
  • The internet platform Splashmovies - the whole world of film also draws the actors into the criticism: The ghost moments are only very rarely staged in a creepy way and the story as a whole is presented quite superficially, which can also be said about the characters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the film on the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Label: Universum Film GmbH; EAN: 0888837067393.
  3. ↑ Apartment 1303 (2007) on Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ movie review on angstrated.com
  5. ↑ Description of the film and film review on filmbessprechung.de
  6. ↑ Film description and film review on Filmchecker.wordpress.com
  7. ↑ Film description and film review on Splashmovies - the whole world of film