Should you see it? Not if anything else I review is available.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Friday, May 30, 2014
The Landlady (1998)
How bad is it? It's watchable.
Should you see it? Not if anything else I review is available.
There aren't many films about female psychopaths and very few female slashers. This one stars Talia Shire, whose performance is okay, though occasionally, it seems like she's playing it for camp (there's some "Mommie Dearest" moments). The other actors are generally bad. The plot has her killing her husband (anaphylaxis), then taking over the apartment he owned as a landlady, so she can find herself a new husband among the tenants. She installs cameras and two-way mirrors and ends up killing everyone who gets in her way... and then anyone who annoys her... and then just about anyone else. It gets wilder and sillier as it goes.
Should you see it? Not if anything else I review is available.
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