Occupant (2011)

Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

Am I Missing Something?

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

OCCUPANT is another indie horror flick shot in a single apartment in New York. The story sees a normal guy moving into his deceased grandmother's apartment only to find something nasty already living there. Sadly, the story is so cheap that nearly everything takes places off screen despite one good scene at the climax. The rest is an array of genre tropes and clichés on a non-existent budget.

I will start without spoiling anything and speak in general. I just finished watching this and I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. I do think it had so much potential but didn't quite execute it all right. I agree with many of the previous reviews. I completely understand why its getting mixed and mostly negative reviews. I would only suggest this to someone who has time to kill and likes this particular type of movie. I mean the kind that keeps you guessing but doesn't really explain much so you're left guessing. I personally found myself getting kind of bored in the last thirty minutes and I was wondering what is going to happen. I was just waiting for something to happen already... and not much happened. At the same time, I personally thought it had some good things about it as well. Such as the apartment itself, I thought it was beautiful and at the same time so easily eery all on its own. There were one or two moments that were really interesting, not necessarily scary. I think you'll either like it or hate it, depending on what you like in a movie its worth a try. My main problem and thing I want to point out is it leaves you with one too many questions. There are some specific things I wanted to point out that I liked and disliked about this movie. Maybe it will give others another perspective if they, like me, came here after watching it to get a better understanding and/or see what other people thought.*SPOILERS BELOW, STOP READING NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS*It had its good moments (to me). For example the mirror scene... what was that about. The silhouette before blog girl died, I didn't think it looked like our main character so it did freak me out for a minute... things like that. I just think it wasn't all bad. I didn't care for what happened to the cat (exterminator spraying it, then baked). I don't understand the hole in the wall. I don't understand the door man's MO... and a lot more I just didn't understand.I guess I'll end this review with my personal interpretation of this whole ting. For some reason being in that big apartment for so many days caused him to lose it. Maybe it was the pressure of losing the place. Maybe he was already to some degree crazy. Maybe it was a mixture of things that built up to our disappointing end with an impractical suicide. At the end we see the little boy watching the full clip from blog girls camera. We know that Danny also watched this, so maybe he couldn't come to terms with seeing himself kill her and then hide it. I thought maybe that's why the camera is found on the floor later, kind of smashed up. I still don't understand the hole in the wall, or if it was just a natural heart attack causing the grandmothers death, but I'm getting that this was mostly his insanity. Maybe the stapled wallpaper over the wall was ripped because he threw blog girl down there after killing her. Maybe later he tried to stuff exterminator guy down there but he wouldn't fit or was too heavy.I understand in this insanity (by his words) he rationalized by saying cops and such would come to the apartment if they knew about the exterminator dying. Then he worried about being kicked out of there so he felt he had to hide it. Maybe seeing his cat in the oven really pushed him off the edge. At first I thought he put the door up as a trap as he did with all of the wire and crap. Then he looks around and remembers what was and decides to kill himself. So I'm just not sure... as I said it leaves you with too many questions.

I created an account just to write this, just FYI. If you can avoid this movie, do it. You will be fooled/lured in by the first 30 minutes, only to be smashed violently in the head by the absolute terror of predictable, boring nothingness of movie. I cannot accurately express how frustrated and angry this troll of a movie made me by the end.Spoiler: 12 days by yourself in a luxury apartment cannot drive you crazy. People spend months in solitary confinement, which this is not. He kills the chick on day two, due to his insanity from being isolated, what? If you want to anger yourself, then watch this movie. This is a zero of a movie. Do not watch this movie. You should only do so to know how not to make a movie. Not the worst, but almost.

This movie was great! I love psychological thrillers especially when they have relatively normal people go crazy. Any one of us could go crazy at any time. The acting was actually pretty good fora movie like this. Man if he had just held out a few more hours.. But wow what a way to die. I would have definitely picked something faster.I love how it has you thinking there are serious plot holes but don't worry they clear it all up in the end. Poor kid, I guess he's next to go crazy...Great movie! I can't wait to watch it with my friends!