Robert Malenfant directs Talia Shire, Jack Coleman and Bruce Weitz in this thriller where a sad sack wife kills her husband and inherits an apartment building in LA, where nearly all the tenants disrupt her new life to the point of further murders.

Drossy garbage, mainly set in one harshly lit hallway. Shire’s The Landlady From Hell is a bit Annie Wilkes and a lot Eleanor Lace from The Haunting. If somebody… anybody… just gave her a cuddle the body count would drop. The closest we get to an exciting set piece is when she gets trapped in a call girl’s closet and has to watch the clock rundown when she has some time sensitive sandwiches to make… I wonder if that was directly from the Roald Dahl Tales Of The Unexpected this was allegedly based on?

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Perfect Double Bill: Prophecy (1979)

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