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.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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