Apartment 1303 3D

'APARTMENT 1303 3D': One Star (Out of Five)

American remake of the 2007 Japanese horror film ('APARTMENT 1303'), which was based on the book by Kei Oishi. It tells the tale of a haunted apartment that drives it's residents to suicide. The sister of it's latest victim investigates her death and falls victim to the disturbed ghost as well. It was written and directed by Michael Taverna and is his second feature (after the 1996 drama 'MANAGUA', 17 years earlier). It stars Mischa Barton (who's most well known from the popular TV series 'THE O.C.'), Rebecca De Mornay, Julianne Michelle and Corey Sevier. The film is one of the worst horror movies I've seen in years!

Barton stars as Lara Slate, a young woman who's still living with her alcoholic mother, Maddie (De Mornay). Maddie was a successful musician who now drinks her days and nights away, out of depression. Lara and her younger sister, Janet (Michelle), have long had troubled relationships with their mother and Janet has finally decided to do something about her's. She's moved out of her mother's home and into a creepy apartment (1303) in downtown Detroit. She's warned, by a nine-year-old neighbor girl named Emily (Madison McAleer), that several other residents (in that apartment) have committed suicide there. Janet soon winds up having the same fate. Lara is crushed by the news and moves into the apartment to investigate (and away from her abusive mother). She has help from her sister's boyfriend, Mark (Sevier), but soon finds herself haunted by a troubled ghost as well.

I haven't seen the Japanese original but I imagine it has to be a lot better than this turd (fans of it must be outraged). This movie feels like something I could have written in middle school; it pieces together a bunch of random nonsensical scenes that aren't scary and just don't add up to anything. By the time it's over the viewer is thinking 'what the hell did I just watch and what was the point?'. It has no point, it's just a complete waste of time. The acting is atrocious, the mother/daughter drama is painful to watch and both Barton and De Mornay look horrible in the film. The movie just has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. It's an insult not only to the movie it's remaking but to all horror films in general!

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I just finished watching this film. There is absolutely no aspect of this film that I can praise. It's one of those films where you realize you are in trouble about five minutes in. The acting is wooden and not believable. The writing and direction are not at a professional level, to put it nicely. The plot is ridiculous and there are no scares whatsoever present in this movie.

By highlighting well known actresses, they are hoping to cash in on their names. However, don't be fooled by that. It is the worst film I've ever seen Rebecca DeMorney in and Mischa Barton is an embarrassment. When you watch a film like this, the inevitable question is "did they realize how bad the film is?". I cannot answer that question, but once a project is a go and the actors don't back out, I guess they just hope it will find a market. This film deserves no market, it is that bad!

I am watching this DVD right now and felt the urge to post a review half way through. This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I have read screenplays by Labradors that read better than this. I love the horror genre so I was hoping this would be good but now I have to go to Blockbuster in the morning and demand my 6 dollars back. How does Mischa Barton get a gig when she obviously cannot act? All the good writers in the world that can't catch a break and someone give this trash a green light....it just makes no sense at all? Hopefully it gets better otherwise I may have to take it back tonight and I don't really want to drive to the video store at 1am.

Another one of those "let's make a foreign movie into a Hollywood version", and yet again, as with so many other such attempts, it failed and was put to shame by the original.

Given the fact that the original Japanese "Apartment 1303" wasn't particularly much to write home about, then you would think that director Michael Taverna would have it nice and easy here to make it into a better remake. You would think so! But wow, this American version of "Apartment 1303" turned out to be even worse and more boring than the original Japanese version.

The storyline is essentially the same as in the Japanese version, a woman movies into an apartment that is haunted by something sinister because of a tragic event that took place in the self same apartment.

This American version of "Apartment 1303" was nowhere even remotely near being scary or spooky in the least bit. And it was a rather pointless and dull experience to sit through. I had initially hoped that Rebecca DeMornay would be able to lift up the movie even just a bit, but that proved not to be the case, as she wasn't given much to work with in this movie.

Some times it is better to not meddle with original versions of movies, and just leave them to what they initially were and are. I strongly suggest that you watch the Japanese version of "Apartment 1303" if you absolutely have to watch this story. However, be warned, you are not in for much of an improvement.

This might be the worst acted movie I've ever seen! But even that was great compared to the simple script and terrible directing. I felt like I was watching a movie that my kid made on a camcorder. It was almost so bad that I started laughing. Take my advice and watch something else. Anyone who liked this movie must either be brain dead or related to someone who was involved with production. From beginning to end I cringed not in fear, but in the amateurism that this movie displays. It was also very predictable with little to no mystery. My wife likes some of the dumbest movies ever made and even she kept repeating how bad it was. At one point I got up to get a drink and when I came back I hadn't missed anything. It forces itself through the motions and repeats nuances from other horror flicks. This movie could not have cost more than a couple grand to make.