The Dead Girl in Apartment 03

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A film That you will forget as fast as youve read this review. Theyve made a basic horror movie, with a small cast, the same names showing up multipel times on the cast and crew list, and bear all signs of wannabe filmaking. But its hard without the financial foundation, and the story is mainstream satanic, and is narrated through a police interview 9 hours after the horrific happenings occured. The cast delivers ok, and the playtime is perfect, its just the plot and story that doesnt hit a homerun by the grumpy old man. Its obviously an oblivious obelisque on the silverscreen heaven.

The Dead Girl in Apartment 03 is a really, really low-key ghost story. So much so, that the dialogue comes off as too simplistic, and other times redundant. I wouldn't even say this movie offers anything new to the genre, and in terms of brevity, I think it's a bit too short (72 minutes). Surely this filmmaker has left some room for characters and story to be further fleshed out. There's a police procedural angle (with Adrienne King from Friday the 13th), where the detectives basically just show up to console the "living" girl in apartment 03, and miss evidence (never mind the scratches, which are never explained, but there's a huge satanic symbol under the dead girl's bed, in the same room they were collecting evidence!). The ghosts occasionally show up to say "Hi," and nothing more, though they are startling to look at. Why a 7? This movie has atmosphere for miles, and I can't get enough of claustrophobic settings. Laura splits from her boyfriend in Massachusetts to move to New York City, and answers an ad for a roommate. After two months, she discovers her roommate has mysteriously died. There is an occult and supernatural element, as well as a couple twists at the end. But the bulk of this movie involves Laura's sense of isolation in her apartment (she spends the entire duration there, only once venturing elsewhere, a futile trip to the basement because her lights go out). Also, her helplessness, as her only options seem to be reaching out to her ex, 3 hours away, and the inept cop who left his number, and expressed interest in dating her (yeah, he botches the ending, as well!). So, I really enjoyed the trapped aspect of Laura's story, the subdued tone of the film, and the dank atmosphere the entire movie possesses. Could've used a couple re-writes, if not an entirely different writer. Oh yeah, the opening and closing theme sounds suspiciously like John Carpenter's Halloween.

After the death of her roommate, a woman goes through the process of trying to get her life cleaned up as well as the apartment of the deceased's belongings, but when she's convinced that her spirit still haunts the building tries to get some resolution to the matter while avoiding the police. Overall, this was a rather fun if slightly flawed effort. Among the better aspects to be had here are the impressive atmospheric touches that come about due to the ghostly encounters. The initial setup of stumbling across the body and trying to come to terms with the incident is well enough and gets this going nicely which provides the launching point for the slight series of encounters throughout here as the ghost comes up at unexpected moments. Granted, most of them are just standing around behind her unknowingly or just walking quickly in the background behind her but the fact that there's a sense of an unnatural presence in the area makes for a creepy time at points with this one. That sets up the big finale where this one comes across rather nicely with a bit more action than expected. The idea of the ghostly being's true state of appearance comes off rather nicely while the chilling revelations provide this one with a strong series of storylines that serve to introduce a fine occult angle into the proceedings. That occurs with the series of ghostly encounters finally turning into a bit more malicious and even featuring a more vicious being that shows up in a shocking sequence that's highly unexpected which gets this going quite nicely into the big reveal about the incident that killed the roommate that has a lot to like overall. These factors manage to give the film some fun enough elements to make it enjoyable. There are some minor drawbacks to be had here. One of the biggest issues here stems from the decidedly unusual police investigation that goes on here which is somewhat clumsily handled. The idea of the detectives trying to get through the case as quickly as possible by blaming everything on her before doing any kind of investigative detective work seems immensely off-putting and unrealistic that's rightfully shot down by the more experienced partner. However, that's not an excuse as to why it was included to begin with beyond being an opportunity to get a name-star more screen-time. That they spend more time on the phone reacting to her bringing new clues to their attention rather than doing it themselves also shows a distressing amount of lacking in this area which shouldn't be the case. As well, the last issue here comes from the tempered and slow-building pace that doesn't do much in the way of generating action for long stretches of time. The ghost attacks are barely attacks but merely sightings happening in the briefest possible manner without ensuring that there's any contact between them until the end, Filling that time instead are scenes involving the roommate trying to go about her life or the boyfriend helping her for information on the matter so it's quite dull for stretches at a time until it gets to that finale where it picks up again. Coupled with the few instances of the low-budget shining through in the effects work, these are the few drawbacks holding it down. Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

This movie honestly felt like a film-making student's graduation project. A lot of the things were really weak. The dialogue, story, scenario, even some of the actor's acting.. I of course appreciate and respect the crew's hard work, time, money, and effort they've put in, and I think it was mainly the Director\writer's responsibility to fix the weaknesses in this movie, or invest these resources to create a better story\write a better scenario. It's rated as a horror movie but nothing even moderately scary happened until minute 53 out of a movie that's 1hour 12 minutes long, except for 3 or 4 scenes that show the ghost for a few seconds! The end was very predictable and unexciting. The atmosphere of the movie was uncomfortable in a good way if anything. However, for me, it wasn't scary. I really hope the people who worked on the movie take this review as constructive criticism and a way to fix these problems in future projects because it wasn't intended to be any other way and I believe they have the potential to do so much better.

Really some bad scriptwriting here. I noticed 2 conversations where 2 different characters repeated the same line. That is annoying. Like when one person says 'Maybe the cops missed something.' And then like 20 seconds later another character in the same conversation says 'Could be the cops missed something' . And that happened more than once. That's poor. Very poor. So some girl is dead and her roommate is left with the mystery of whodunnit, and the cops are clueless and really don't follow standard procedure very well. In fact the cops' procedures are really in question in this movie, like whoever wrote it and directed it really didn't know cops' procedures in general That's poor. Very Poor. Overall this movie was poor. Very poor. 3/10.

Right, well of course I opted to watch this 2022 horror movie as I stumbled upon it. After all, I have been a horror fan ever my early teenage years. I hadn't heard about "The Dead Girl in Apartment 03" prior to watching it, so I wasn't sure what to expect from writer and director Kurtis Spieler. So every chance to impress and entertain was readily available. 30 minutes into the ordeal and I am bored to tears. Wow, talk about a snoozefest of epic proportions. This movie was a massive swing and a miss, and it just fell entirely short of capturing my interesting. Watching boring monotonous dialogue hardly constitutes being proper entertainment when I sit down to watch a movie. The only thing that was scary in "The Dead Girl in Apartment 03" was the absolute sheer boredom that permeated the movie in every scene. The whole movie was just so incredibly slow paced that I was losing more and more interest in it with each passing minute. I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble that participated in the making of this movie, but it was a real shame that the actors and actresses were given nothing worthwhile to work with in terms of script, storyline, dialogue or characters. This movie is not something I will return to watch the rest of. 30 minutes of literally nothing was more than enough to scare me away. And this is definitely not a movie that I would recommend for horror fans to sit down and watch. Some of us suffered through this ordeal in greater or shorter length, so you don't have to. I am rating "The Dead Girl in Apartment 03" a very generous two out of ten stars, and that is based on the production value of the movie entirely.

After recently moving to New York City, Laura's (Laura Dooling) new roommate Elizabeth is already dead and she's left alone in the apartment to deal with the emotional and supernatural aftermath. With the help of Detectives Miller (Frank Wihbey) and Richards (Adrienne King, who is - of course - Alice from Friday the 13th), as well as her ex-boyfriend Christian (Bryan Manley Davis), she has to figure out who left the symbols under Elizabeth's bed and murdered her before she's the next victim. The movie starts with Christian trying to explain to the cops why three dead bodies were in her apartment and also why Laura is gone before rewinding back to its story. That's a huge spoiler delivered by the actual film that we're about to watch. That said, Dooling is great in the film and her fears are quite believable, especially once the power goes out. Director Kurtis Spieler has become well-known for overseeing the dubbing and assembling the footage to create the patchwork cult film New York Ninja. He also made the movies The Devil's Well and Sheep Skin.

The only horrifying aspect of this horror, is that the acting performance -of pretty much everyone but the lead, Laura- can apparently be poor enough to make you not even notice how awful the writing actually is.

The film does a great job building suspense for its first half. The film cuts between the quiet and haunting apartment as our protagonist scenes to the police investigation and the slowly-becoming-involved ex-boyfriend. I won't spoil anything major, but the film follows a predictable-enough arc that it's still a good watch knowing the major plot points. A major strength is the picture's shorter runtime. It makes for a quick-and-easy watch and each scene proves intentional towards moving the plot forward and wrapping up the the ending. Cheesy at times? Definitely, but that's my style for horror/suspense as well. Personally, I'd recommend it to just about anyone and I think any older-school horror fan would have a great time watching this.