La puerta del terror

After catching her loathesome husband in bed with another woman, Melanie Leroy (Talia Shire) makes sure he meets with a tragic "accident". Melanie then sets out to find her true Prince Charming. Luckily for her, an Aunt has left her an entire apartment building in sunny Los Angeles.

Upon her arrival, Melanie realizes that some rather unsavory people live there, including the Super, named Pepper (Bruce Weitz). However, it's not long -about ten seconds in fact- before Melanie happens upon the man of her dreams (Patrick Forman). Alas, poor Melanie's psychotic nature soon gets the better of her, causing her tenants to start having their own "accidents".

Obviously, in a movie such as this one, it's all about the title character, and boy, does Ms. Shire deliver! She keeps Melanie's personality on the innocent side, while careening wildly between being a soft-spoken mouse and a murdering maniac. As the bodies pile up, we only hope that Melanie's "true love" will be the one that got away.

Absolutely ludicrous in every way, THE LANDLADY is a genuine rib tickler from start to finish...

In Sunshine, Nevada, the middle-aged housewife Melanie Leroy (Talia Shire) sees her husband Ralston Leroy (Nathan Le Grand) shagging her neighbor and she freaks out. Then she poisons Ralston, who is allergic to seafood, in the dinner.

Melanie travels to the California to the apartment building that she has inherited from her aunt and when she meets her tenant Patrick Forman (Jack Coleman), she believes that he would be a perfect husband for her. She uses her maiden name, Melanie Leroy, and becomes obsessed for him, killing anyone that might interpose between Patrick and her.

"The Landlady" is a lame low-budget thriller, with a plot with many holes and an awful lead actress. The story is a dreadful rip-off of "Fatal Attraction" and "Misery" with a predictable conclusion. I bought this DVD some years ago and today I unfortunately decided to see it. My vote is three.

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Until it succumbs to slasher cliches in the final reel, The Landlord is a refreshingly different take on the genre. Well written and well acted, The Landlady stars Rocky Balboa's old love interest, Talia Shire, as a sexually repressed (fundamentalist?) Christian who inherits an apartment building in Los Angeles. She proceeds to get the hots for one of her tenants...and nothing will stop her from settling down and starting a family with him. You'll be pleasantly surprised by it all.

The script is pretty weak and has already been seen before, but Talia Shire is good.

Talia Shire is a housewife who inherits an apartment building. She becomes fixated on one of her tenants. But he already has a girlfriend. She will go to desperate measures to get him, including murder.

The acting is OK,however Talia Shire is even funny at times as a PSYCHO LANDLADY!

At times it seems Talia Shire was playing this for laughs. Her performance definitely hit some very campy notes. Fairly predictable the whole way but becomes ludicrous as the body count piles up. And it's always good to see Courtney Gaines(Rags from "Hardbodies") still working. Tiny role but you can't miss him.