A pretty black girl reads a newspaper with a headline of a total solar eclipse and spots a classified ad for a job. She calls by pay phone and arrives at a strange building with mannequins in the stairway leading up to a door. She enters the room and is stuck in the neck with a needle and passes out.

A well dressed woman has a conversation with her sister regarding the rental of an apartment they have inherited from their parents. She is Margarita Sanchez, a lawyer with important clients and no time to waste. The busy beaver meets a man in the hallway and asks if he is there for the rental. He tells her that his client, Mr. Salva, wishes to rent immediately and will pay four timed the market value for the property. She is impressed and leaves to pick up some things at a store. A homeless man follows her and begs her for money. He is lectured about the ruination of polite society by the lower class. She also tasers the guy, knocking him to the ground. The people of the neighborhood gather round and tell her off.

Ms. Sanchez goes back the apartment and sees two men and two women now there. They explain that they are from the real estate agency and are awaiting there client, Mr. Salva. In between, Miss hot shot lawyer is constantly on the phone with both work projects and an apparently married lover planning a midnight rendezvous. A voice mail message states that the person for the rental can't make it; uh oh, who are the impostors? Margarita is in deep s**t and gets tied to a chair.

The cute gal from the first scene reappears and so does Mr. Salva in a white suit. Miss sexy, who has awakened after an unscheduled nap, is bound and naked(Maria Nela Sinisterra in a highlight, her body). The gang of four, plus Senor Salva, are awaiting the eclipse and the end of the world as we know it. The finale is decent, with a slight twist which worked for me.

PENUMBRA is a waste of time film, one of those I saw in the schedules late at night. It was marked as a horror movie so I thought I'd give it a go, but I wish I hadn't: this is a worthless, amateurish film with barely any plot, full of dull dialogue that seems to have been ad-libbed by an uninterested cast.

This no-budget movie involves an unpleasant estate agent who spends half the running time on her mobile phone - that never makes for great entertainment. Mild interest is evoked when she's attacked early on by a homeless man, but this sub-plot doesn't seem to go anywhere. Instead, the estate agent has to deal with a number of bizarre characters who are congregating inside an apartment she has available for rent.

PENUMBRA is a slow, slow movie in which very little of substance actually happens. The background of a solar eclipse is interesting but nothing happens with it. The horror is limited to the last scene and when it comes it's so predictable that you wonder what you were waiting for all that time. The acting is also very basic, but the biggest problem is with the writing/directing partnership, which falls flat all the while. Somebody show these guys how to make a real movie!

A very suspenseful little movie, that might not go exactly the way you expect it to go. At least that rings true with my expectations and I was happy it had some surprises up its sleeves. Also I loved the ending. I think you can interpret things into it (but that might only be true with me of course).

I loved the actress in it. She is so OTT, that of course she also might spark up other feelings. But that's the way she is (her character) and the actress really relished in it. Great performance by her and the other cast members of course. You might feel the story has inconsistencies and is not true, which will make the movie unbearable of course. I can tell you that I didn't have that sort of problem. I really loved the movie with all its little twists and mistakes it had