Fatal Contract - next door to death
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fatal Contract - next door to death |
| Original title | The Landlady |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Malenfant |
| script | Frank Rehwaldt , George Saunders |
| production | Pierre David , Talia Shire |
| music | Erik Lundmark |
| camera | Darko Suvak |
| cut | Julian Semilian |
| occupation | |
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Fatal Contract - next door to the death ( The Landlady ) is an American thriller by Robert Malenfant from the year 1998 .
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Melanie Leroy dreams of a husband and a family. She gets married, but finds out that her husband is having an affair. She then feels disappointed and poisons him.
Melanie inherits a house into which Patrick Forman moves. She tries to force him to stay with her as a life partner. Melanie kills some people, including Patrick's girlfriend. She gags him and ties him to his bed.
A woman friend of Forman comes to visit him. Leroy says Forman is absent, but the woman sees Forman's car in front of the house. Leroy lets the woman into the apartment, where she notices Forman's purse. She wants to call the police. Leroy gets a pistol and Forman frees himself during this time. He fights against Leroy, who is killed by a gunshot.
Reviews
Mike DeWolfe scoffed that the film did not belong to the “ horror ” genre , but “ horrible ” (“ terrible ”). It is difficult to decide which of its aspects is the worst. Talia Shire's game is not one of her best portrayals. The film borrows and " dilutes " elements of horror films like Psycho and Misery .
The magazine TV direkt 8/2007 wrote that the film was " implausible and involuntarily funny ".
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- ↑ Critique by Mike DeWolfe ( memento of the original from February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TV direkt 8/2007, page 53
Web links
- Fatal Contract - next door to the death in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fatal Contract - next door to the death at Rotten Tomatoes (English)