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There's no place like your home
An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revenge.
Freehold
2017 Directed by Dominic Bridges
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2 Pigeons, Two Pigeons
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AKA Two Pigeons
I'm no Howie Mandel (Germaphobe) but even I saw the benefits of wearing a hazmat suit while watching this film. A barf bag would have been very much welcomed as well! But when push comes to shove it proved to be entirely unnecessary, but surely would have reduced the mounting anxiety from worrying about whether or not I'd make it to the bathroom in time should the need arise! To be frank with my fellow Gorehounds just so you don't get the wrong idea, the aforementioned accoutrements were NOT due to graphic gore or blood splatter. It was due to an onslaught of highly disturbing scenes of explicit, pure unadulterated, gag reflex inducing, unsanitary, disease-ridden activities!
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Horror movies are one thing, but the entire first 15 minutes of this had me cringing out of disgust so hard, that I had to be scheduled for an immediate, emergency underwearectomy.
Then, I realized that that was basically the whole film.
Dude goes to work or to bed, other dude comes out (very quickly, I might add...give it a second or two, Scarecrow), messes with stuff, slow drip of backstory, rinse, repeat. Then, when it gets to the finale, I couldn't get over how small the story was. I wanted there to be some sort of true righteousness in the story, and both of these men were petty and, quite frankly, deserved each other. So, basically just a story about real-life roommates.
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Definitely gross, creepy, and at times funny, but despite the short running time, it becomes tediously repetitive. Both the leads give good performances though, and it's cool to see Botet without all the makeup he's usually under.
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An interesting, if not somewhat repetitive, exercise on British single-location paranoia and disgust.
Modern horror mainstay Javier Botet, this time sans-make-up, is hiding in the walls of shady real estate agent Hussein's London flat. When Hussein leaves for work, Botet comes out and begins to reap chaos over his life in increasingly more sinister and gross ways.
Freehold is a worthy watch, despite the repetitiveness it falls victim to. It has that british sense of humour, and proper genuine cringy moments, largely through spit and phlegm, which are probably my two least favourite things in the world.
As the motives start to become clear, and Botet becomes more and more sinister and reckless, Freehold drops us into an ending that seems slightly out of left field in its stages, but manages to dp a decent job.
Streaming on prime.
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Hussein is an estate agent who dresses sharp for work, but smokes loads of weed and is prone to letting his small flat become a pigsty when his girlfriend Mel's not around. This leads to amusing scenes in which his secret lodger Orlan - who he has no idea exists, and who only emerges when he's out - has to leave everything in exactly the same disgusting state as he found it, after using tiny amounts of Hussein's food, drink and toiletries to keep himself alive and relatively hygienic. When Mel returns to London, Orlan's antics escalate, as he messes with their things to orchestrate rifts in their relationship, while also contaminating the kitchen equipment and poisoning Hussein's bathroom products.…
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October Horror Challenge 2017 Movie #65
More of a dark comedy, and of much better quality, than my expectations were prepared for going in. It's the creeper in the house tale, but told with a bitter and stylistic sense of humor, balancing out the more fucked up elements with justified humor that doesn't feel forced, as well as not really giving you anyone to fully root for or to hate, leaving everything in the more realistic gray area. It may be a little too long for its own good, but it doesn't diminish it too terribly.
- toiletries abuse
- 1 lazyboy pigeoned
- 1 freezered
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If this was part of a double feature, it would play right after Gummo.
Equally dark and grotesque, this is an anxiety inducing ride.
Some very compelling and convincing character portrayals made this a very interesting watch.
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Weird, gross, claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing. It's a bit funny, sure, but also quite upsetting. For essentially being a bottle movie, it is beautifully shot and gives the film a good sense of movement, and the two main actors were quite excellent, especially Javier Botet, who is both haunting and hilarious. Yeah, I'm into it. Pair this with 'Relaxer' for a skinny-guys-in-an-apartment-the-entire-time double feature.
This was titled '2 Pigeons' on Prime where I watched it.
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31 Days of Halloween - October 3
Freehold isn't really a horror film. It plays more out like a gross dark comedy - home invasion type of film that touches the creepy regions.
The filmmakers used the one set location very effectively, is never feels dull for a moment.
The best part of the movie is Javier Botet. He's mostly always cast for his alienated presence. His body is strangely build and he's got very long arms and legs (the scene when he lies under the bed you can see how long they actually are). He's best known for his roles in REC, IT (2017), Mama and Slender Man. You can't miss him, he's the most odd looking guy !
In Freehold he plays his part as tormentor very well, you clearly can see he's having a ball. First he's starting off with some subtle pranks, as further we go these events are getting heavier and more sinister.
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An intriguing and somewhat surreal dark comedy which is pretty visually disgusting for much of its run time. It plays on revenge fantasy and it does help that the focus of the revenge is an estate agent, a profession which is not exactly universally respected. I wonder how it would have worked with a nurse or a doctor or something like that.
Some of the visuals and camerawork are interesting but the focus is on the conceit and the unravelling of the story, and it's pretty well done. I liked the claustrophobic feel of it and the way the way the nauseating actions of the Spanish guy are shown, you really feel how repellent he seems at the start, and it mirrors the estate agent perfectly. Worth a watch.
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Will particularly strike a chord with anyone who lives in a city where apartment living and over-priced leasehold property is the norm! Director Dominic Bridges really, really doesn't like estate agents! Mim Shaikh plays Hussein, a typically unscrupulous agent who lives in his city pad. Little does he suspect that when he goes to work, a stowaway comes out to play... imaginative set up and nicely executed single location film which is powered by two fine central performances - Shaikh manages to make his character likeable despite his failings and Javier Botet's wiry physicality as Orlan is something to behold. It could have been a much darker, more insidious movie like Sleep Tight, but Bridges plays it for laughs instead and that's no bad thing.
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