Synopsis
Evil doesn't knock... It has the key!
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
1998 Directed by Robert Malenfant
Melanie decides that one of her tenants would be perfect as her husband and decides to eliminate everyone who might interfere in her plans.
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Kinky and crazy late 90s thriller. Super cheesy and dumb but fun to watch because of that.
Guilty pleasure status all the way. Love watching Talia Shire play a complete nut. The way people act in this movie i believe you could make the case it takes place in "The Room" universe.
Taking its cues from better horror films like "Misery," "The Landlady" is a small-scale potboiler about an obsessive and murderous woman who runs an apartment complex. Talia Shire slums it up as the title character whose feelings toward one of her tenants start a particular destructive chain of events.
The film has very little style and atmosphere, but it is watchable thanks to its cast and curiosity over just how unhinged the landlady might become. While that curiosity will never truly be satisfied, the film provides enough low-level thrills to make the experience vaguely passable.
The Landlady is one of a host of cable-released psycho-thrillers made by Canadian-born, US-based producer Pierre David. Pierre David produced several of David Cronenberg’s films and the Scanners sequels but these days makes psycho-thrillers. Most of these fall to a predictable formula, usually imitating other more successful models and using a one-word job as their title. These include The Paperboy, Stalked, The Secretary, Daddy’s Girl, The Dentist, The Nurse, Alone with a Stranger, and The Stepdaughter, among a host of other films. Rob Malenfant began working as an assistant director for Pierre David, had previously directed The Nurse and has made a total of nine films for David, including The Perfect Nanny and Blind Obsession.
One entered into The Landlady…
God, it's so bad. There are plot holes big enough to swim through, the characters narrate their every move, and the audience has to basically put their willing suspension of disbelief into overdrive. However, this is fun you can only get from watching Lifetime reject material. Highly recommended for those who enjoy the ridiculous side of cinema.
Nice stalker thriller from the 1990s.
Entertaining and funny. Plenty of WTF moments. The Landlady gets obsessed with one of her male tenants. She slowly infiltrates herself into his life and kills people along the way...
Really fun.
Rocky’s fling loses the plot after catching her husband cheating on her (he was a slimy turd) and then starts to descends in further madness when she inherits an apartment.
The atmosphere is fairly good on this. All horror is implied not shown which is a little disappointing.
Watch on DVD from physical media vaults of time!!!
Talia Shire was lots of fun turning deranged. Seemed more like a Lifetime movie than a horror movie, but very watchable.