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eVil Sublet
USA 2023
produced by Jennifer Leigh Houston, Beth Ann Mastromarino, Chris Pearson, Allan Piper for SpeakEasy Productions, We Make Movies
directed by Allan Piper
starring Jennifer Leigh Houston, Charley Tucker, Leanne Borghesi, Stephen Mosher, Pat Dwyer, Sally Struthers, Michele Ammon, Patrick Wang, Allan Piper, Michele Carlo, Carla Rhodes, Helen Hong, Joshua Price, Rebecca Graham, Rowan Wechsler (voice), Ashley Bufkin, Joseph Ritsch, John DeVore, Yeri Martinez-Vallejo, Christie Allan-Piper, Katy Sullivan, Jay Herrlinger, Adam RealMan, Aaron Tabackman, Patrick David Wall, Melissa Leonard, Olly Honor Langol-Leonard
story by Chris Pearson, Allan Piper, screenplay by Allan Piper, music by Jason Landry
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Alex (Jennifer Leigh Honston) and Ben (Charley Tucker) can't believe
their luck to have found a roomy Manhattan apartment with (shared) garden
for cheap. Sure, the apartment has been the scene of occasional murders
over the years, and previous tenants have always moved out in a hurry -
but heck, it's a roomy Manhattan apartment with a shared garden,
and since all the other apartments in the building are empty at the
moment, there isn't anybody to share it with. But of course, once Alex and
Ben have moved in, weird things start to happen, weird things that mostly
happen to Alex, so Ben thinks she's crazy. Then a friend of theirs diesin
their apartment, which greatly alarms
Alex, but as he techically suffocated from swallowing an olive, he prefers
to chalk it up as a freak accident and sees no reason not to leave Alex
alone in the house going on a business trip the next day. And on her own,
Alex is pretty much attacked by the apartment. She makes it out unscathed
and now tries to find out the house's secret with her ex (Leanne Borghesi)
and a psychic couple (Stephen Mosher, Patrick Dwyer). And what the four of
them find out is nothing short of disturbing ... Sally Struthers plays
the apartment's nominal lease owner with a terrible secret of her
own.
It might not shine through in my synopsis above, but eVil
Sublet is actually a hilariously funny movie - and sure, technically
it's a horror movie of the haunted house-variety with all the genre
elements firmly in place and the formula down to the t - but what sets it
miles apart from other films of its ilk is the incredible wit that went
into the script, there's plenty of clever dialogue, fun situations,
amusing awkwardness and the like for a full-blown comedy (which eVil
Sublet isn't even), and it's all done without insulting its audience's
intelligence. And a cast that's in on the joke, well-versed in comedy but
mostly playing it straight brings the movie to life rather beautifully
while a directorial effort well-versed in horror provides the film with
just the right atmosphere to deliver menace despite all the jokes. And the
sum of it all is a very entertaining piece of genre cinema.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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