Year: 2010 Studio: ReelDreams Productions Director: Ric La Monte Language: English Length: 94 Minutes Sub-Genre: Monster, Thriller |
Plot: Dr. Walter Newman is bent on ridding the human race of deficiencies via genetic manipulation. When his wife gives birth to twins, he realizes that one of his experiments has gone seriously awry. Years later, his abominable creation seeks its revenge.
Review: The Tenant begins with an engaging scene and 2 quick kills where then the movie shifts back in time to an asylum where a doctor is trying to come up with a cure to many human disabilities while ignoring his patients. This is where the story starts to drag. Half the movie focuses on a backstory when we finally jump to current day.
Michael Berryman does have a brief role in The Tenant, and he was phenomenal as always. During these experiments the doctor actually gets fluid out of his body, and this “juice” gets injected into twin fetuses in the womb, which causes one of them to become a deranged, retarded, monster so to speak.
It is this monsterized human who is terrorizing the halls of the old asylum which is now boarded up and in decay, but, it just so happens, a van-load of people breakdown right where the asylum is. The rest of The Tenant is a typical horror movie with some good kills, scary scenes with mediocre acting.
My favorite parts of this movie are when this monstrosity jumps and breaks through walls which really ratchets up the freak-out factor, giving you several startling scenes and leaves you on the edge of your seat as you never know where this creature is lurking. He also makes strange noises which is always a good thing.
Concluding the review of The Tenant; the beginning stages got boring, the characters were not that interesting after 10 minutes, be warned, then you have another 30 minutes of nothing really happening, for a horror movie that is a huge negative. It did redeem itself once you see this deformed human and what he does to some people, but taking The Tenant on a complete package, I am winding up right down the middle, and recommending a rental. It’s worth seeing but it is one that you forget shortly thereafter.
Date: 01/19/2012 Rating: 5/10 Recommendation: Rental |
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