1303: O Apartamento do Mal

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.

Worst acting Worst directing Worst editing Worst *everything*

I watched because it starred (supporting role) Rebecca DeMorney (sp?). But I was really taken back by her AWFUL acting as well as the awful acting of every other actor in the movie. I was so embarrassed for her performance and wondered why she agreed to play this tacky, tacky part.

Had her acting career started with the caliber of this example, she would never have even met Tom Cruise. (Yes! THAT bad.)

I knew within 10 minutes that this movie was bad. We stopped watching, but I have a hard time leaving a movie unfinished and went back to see the rest of it. HOPING it might improve.

It didn't. Not . one . bit.

I can't imagine how desperate the Rebecca DeMornay and Mischa whatever her last name is must have been to sign on to do this movie - everything is wrong with it. Script, direction, sound, photography, plot -- literally every aspect of the movie stinks.

This movie is so terrible that it made me appreciate all the skill and talent that I had always taken for granted as a viewer, the things that add up to making a decent movie: sound, camera angles, lighting, music -- not to mention the obvious: acting ability and plot. This movie had none of it.

I love a good ghost story so we ordered it on demand without considering the possibility that it could be so unbearably bad we would actually decide to stop watching. I don't hesitate to cut my losses and stop watching a bad movie partway into it, but my partner rarely does -- her attitude is, how bad can it be? Yet, even she agreed that we couldn't watch it for a moment longer.

Who cares if the actors are gorgeous, as another reviewer felt compelled to point out twice. What on earth does that have to do with anything? I know a lot of gorgeous people - that doesn't mean I'd want to endure two hours of watching them in a terrible movie.

I have never posted a movie review before but felt compelled to do so, just to save someone else from making the same mistake. What a waste of time and money. THE WORST.

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!

'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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