The 4th Floor - House of Fear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The 4th Floor - House of Fear |
| Original title | The 4th Floor |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josh Klausner |
| script | Josh Klausner |
| production |
Boaz Davidson , Naomi Despres , John Thompson , William Vince , Brad Weston |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Michael Slovis |
| cut | Tricia Cooke |
| occupation | |
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The 4th Floor - House of Fear is an American thriller from the year 1999 . Josh Klausner directed and wrote the script. The main roles are played by Juliette Lewis , William Hurt , Shelley Duvall and Austin Pendleton .
action
In New York City Jane Emelin living plans to move in with her boyfriend Greg Harrison, senior meteorologist is a television program. After the death of her aunt, however, she takes over her apartment with rental price control in Manhattan . Harrison is disappointed at first; later he gives Emelin a television, which she finds too big. Emelin gets to know one of her neighbors and visits him.
After a while, Emelin finds a note on her door from her neighbor, who lives on the fourth floor - directly below her apartment - who says that the noises from her apartment would bother him. She throws the note away. Some time later she finds another note, whereupon she in turn leaves a note on the neighbor's door in which she apologizes and offers him a truce.
Emelin's neighbor continues to harass her, whereupon she comes to the conclusion that he wants to get her move out. After a while she will be attacked. She defends herself and breaks into the neighbour's apartment, where she finds maggots on the floor. There is an exact floor plan of your apartment on the ceiling of the apartment. A little later, a large package is handed over for her, which was only filled with foam. On the floor is the apology with the additional note "accepted". When she returned to her own apartment, she was hit in the head with an object and passed out. The perpetrator also turns on the gas stove.
Finally, she takes out her frustration on the door of floor 4 with a crowbar. But Mr. Collins finds her and can appease her. As she tells him about the incidents in his apartment, she gradually notices that there is also an elevation of the apartment on the ceiling. A moment later she is knocked down by him and falls unconscious to the ground.
Later she finds herself in a room inhabited by flies and lit by candlelight. There are thousands of maggots on a carcass behind a curtain. Disgusted, she tries to leave the room and comes into Mr. Collins' apartment, which is filled with foam particles. He holds a knife in his hand and explains to her that he feels annoyed by her disturbance of the peace, as her aunt once did. Jane manages to escape from the apartment and flees to her apartment, which Mr. Collins also intrudes a little later. Eventually they are both in the stairwell and Mr. Collins tries to throw Jane down the stairs. When he threatens her with the knife, however, Greg Harrison, Jane's friend, suddenly appears and rushes Mr. Collins down the stairs as he tries to kill Jane for good. Mr. Collins then lies dead on the floor of the stairwell.
Finally, we see Jane setting up in a house. Apparently she moved in with Greg.
The last sequence of the film shows a painter's studio. The last picture shows Greg and Mr. Collins sitting at the table together, a typewriter in front of them. So Greg was working with Mr. Collins.
criticism
Erik Childress wrote in the Apollo Movie Guide that the film is not one of the particularly effective thrillers. He assumes a good premise, but it has not been adequately implemented. The film contains "cheap violence", leaves many questions unanswered and disappoints those viewers who would take it too seriously.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "psychological thriller with obvious borrowings from classics of the genre" and a "largely successful, exciting directorial debut". However, it shows "small weaknesses in logical connections and resolution".
production
The film was shot in New York City and in New Brunswick ( Canada turned).
The film premiered at the Fantasy Film Festival in Germany in 1999 and was shown in German cinemas on August 10, 2000. In many other countries such as Great Britain or the USA it was only published as direct-to-video .
Web links
- The 4th Floor - House of anxiety in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by Erik Childress ( Memento from December 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 17, 2008
- ↑ The 4th Floor - House of Fear in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed June 17, 2008
- ^ Filming locations for The 4th Floor , accessed June 17, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for The 4th Floor , accessed June 17, 2008