Don Koch (C.M. Punk) and his expecting wife ( Trieste Kelly Dunn) buy an old house that needs some work. Don works on the house while his wife works from their old house. The house seems to be alive and affords us enough clues so that we know what is going on and we have a good idea where the film is going. No real twist which is what it needed. Don meets Sarah (Sarah Brooks) who hangs out around the house, someone who is overly tempting for Don who is weak.
Excuse me, I liked C.M. Punk. He was a combination of Jim Carrey light and Bruce Campbell. The characters and dialogue needed an upgrade. Some collectors from his past showing up would have been nice.
Guide: F-word. Sex. Partial nudity
Girl on the Third Floor
2019
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Girl on the Third Floor
2019
Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Plot summary
Donald Koch, a.k.a. "Don", "King Don" and "Tiger", moves from Chicago to the suburbs since his wife Liz is pregnant and they believe the location is adequate to raise a family with children. Liz buys an old house and Don, who is unemployed, goes with his dog Cooper first to renovate the house. Soon he learns from his neighbor Ellie Mueller that the house was a brothel many years ago. Then he meets another neighbor, the sexy Sarah Yates, and they have sex in the house. When Sarah returns to visit him, he says that their affair was a mistake since he is married and asks her to not come back again. On the weekend, his friend Milo Stone comes to help Don in the renovation. But soon the house shows supernatural events and Milo, Don and Liz learn that the place is haunted with a sordid past.
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Actions have Consequences
Moraly speaking
House guests can be unnerving. Especially if you move into a new house, the question is, if you can deal with someone else. Not to mention the things going on in your own life (having a partner, friends or whatever). In this case, moving into a new city and not seeing or comprehending all the warning signs, might not be the best thing.
There are certain things that are just too convenient, but overall the horror can work, plotholes and all that. CM Punk (his Wrestling name) plays the main character and overall he's doing a very good job. But there is only so much he can squeeze out of the troubled character he's portraying ...
It was....... different.
I don't know why but I found the film reminded me of the Toolbox Murders, maybe it was because of the level of brutality it had, or was it the acting? Not sure.
It's a very casual first three quarters of an hour, any excuse for them to zoom in on CM Punk's body or tattoos, after that initial meander it does open up quickly, becoming quite nasty, and a little surreal, some scenes are genuinely nasty.
I can see what they attempted, giving a modern twist to a genre that has literally been done to death, they were on the right track, but it somehow missed the mark, maybe the acting needed to be better and the script a little tighter.
Some parts worked, unfortunately some didn't, 5/10.