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House-sitting: It sounded like such an easy job - he (Tom Weller) was
to stay at a large place that has once housed a hippie community and ...
well, do whatever he likes, as long as he keeps squatters off the
premises. That's not even too hard, as there are hardly any, and they seem
to be understanding, and the house is offering plenty of distractions,
objects from the last 80 or so years (when it was built), traces of former
lives. Sure, trash to some, but ... creepy to others, especially if you
have to spend some time with them. So it might just be these remnants of
former lives that freak our hero out by the by, or it might be his
loneliness in this big place, or it might actually be the noises he hears
from upstairs without anybody ever being there that only might have a
perfectly natural explanation. Or indeed it's something else in the
building with him ... Now I don't think that too many true
horror fans have missed the similarities between Commune and
Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shining
- but these similarities are mainly superficial and director Thomas
Perrett manages to make a movie out of his rather skeletal story that
easily stands on its own feet, using atmospheric filmmaking, well-build
suspense and the occasional jump scare to bring its point across, and of
course a great location and strong central performance really help as
well!
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