Jessica (Austin Highsmith) moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbour Evan (Ryan Doom) to solv the mystery and uncover her own connection to the place.
The story is your classic, ground hog day type of movie. When I started watching it I had no idea what it was about, I got the movie off my friend and thought the title sounded okay. But really, the movie starts off like most corney movies. Smalltown girl, looking to escape from the country life moves to the Big City. As soon as she gets the keys to her loft, you can already tell that there is something weird about the building and the tenants.
As she settles in to a rather dark and gloomy building, you see that she really has nothing, she doesnt even get settled in before her over-whelming neighbours are barging in on her life. She falls for Evan, an artist (who uses mountain dew for art… nice product plug / placement) they fall in love, and then she starts seeing her neighbours differently.
Slowly they are being murdered… but when the bodies disapear, she feels as though she is going insane, and every time Evan is just around the corner. No he isnt the murderer, he really is in love with her… Oh because did I tell you? the entire movie is set around 8 hours, which has repeated over and over again 900000+ times.
I’ll skip ahead now. Jessica and Evan are in her loft, while the rest of the tennants are up on the roof having their New Years Party. Jessica and Evan are about to get it on when a candle catches the place on fire. The loft starts to burn, Evan gets stuck under a heavy dresser, Jessica tries to save him, but she cant. She goes to the window for help, stupidly trys to reach an escape ladder too far away, slips and falls to her death. Hmm nice right?
So why are these 8 hours repeating? Well when she was young, Jessica and her younger brother were playing by the water, her brother falls in and drowns, she tries to save him but she fears he is too heavy and will drag her down as well. He dies, and she begs for just one more chance, to try and do it all again to save him.
In some twisted way, this wish holds with her, and as soon as she hits the pavement, the 8 hours start again, each time trying to get her closer and closer to what she wanted to do, try and save some one other than herself… Really the movie is rather boring, and I’d give it a 2 out of 10 stars, the filming is great, the acting is great and everything is great apart from the story, it starts out too slow and finishes off too fast. It’s not a must watch, but its a watch if you have nothing better to watch.
hey, i thought i was the reviewer, LOL.
But good job, you gave a good explanation of the movie, but perhaps too much for some without a spoiler warning, (one thing im always worried about myself) but not much of an opinion of your own views which is also important.