This weekend, while vacationing at BP (well, actually it is usually here that I am able to watch movies in my Ipod…for lack of anything much to do) I was finally able to watch the movie – the Resident. It is actually just a short and simple film released this year about a woman doctor (Hilary Swank) who recently moved into a new apartment but unknown to her she is being stalked in her own home and by her very own landlord – who else? Well, the characters of the movie are quite few so it’s quite easy to guess who the real protagonist is.
The movie starts with the doctor experiencing a break-up so she moves out of the flat she shares with her ex and finds an ad for an unbelievably low-priced flat with spacious rooms and cool interiors and a gorgeous landlord as a bonus! But what she doesn’t know is that the place she’s renting out is fitted with numerous peepholes, one-way mirrors and secret passages that enables the landlord to freely enter her home and do such unthinkable things to her and her stuff – like use her toothbrush, lie on her bed and bathtub, smell her things and worse drug her (thru her wine bottle) so she’d be knocked out cold at night and carry on a physical relationship with her unconscious body. Well, at this point, I believe the movie is making the viewers think the doc could be so stupid as not to suspect anything when she finds herself unable to wake up early each morning (despite the alarm) and also the fact that she’s the only lessee in the building fails to alarm her?!?
The movie itself is not exactly the blood-curdling psycho thriller I had hoped for since the protagonist seems way too nice to be a real psycho and then they have a very little body count -only the ex-boyfriend and the bad guy’s own dad were killed (because they got in the way of his plans!) The story is in fact quite predictable so it’s not really one that I would highly recommend – not the suspense thriller that I had expected and one that I would not tire of watching even repeatedly…just a creepy kind of movie with a storyline that I would dread ever happening to me or to anyone I know, in real life, that is.
[photo grabbed from IMDB]
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