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A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.
Mina Bern
- Ruth Edelstein
- (as Mina Bern Bonas)
Martha De La Cruz
- Anna
- (as Martha DeLaCruz)
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- TriviaDirector Roberta Findlay says the savage rape of Leona (Rhetta Hughes) was inspired by the real-life rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, which occurred on March 13, 1964. At the time this was filmed, the widespread public understanding of the Genovese case was that while she was being murdered, many witnesses who resided in her apartment complex saw the event transpire and chose not to act either by intervening directly or alerting the authorities. This led to decades of the case being considered emblematic of bystander apathy and group inhumanity; however, this perception was derived almost totally from one largely inaccurate account of the murder that in the twenty-first century has been heavily debunked.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Roberta Findlay on 'Tenement' (2005)
- SoundtracksTenement
Sung by the Kool Krew
Written by Pete Warner, Denise L. Davis and David Baughan
Produced, Arranged and Performed by Pete Warner and Denise L. Davis
© 1985 Zip Zap Music, ASCAP/Warner's Thunder Music, SESAC
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I have to admit, this is a real favorite of mine in the graphic extreme bloody genre of semi-revenge thrillers. (is that even a genre?) Oh well, I saw this back in the day, and what I remember is the x-rating it got, and I don't believe it was ever edited to get any other rating. I watched it a 2nd time last night, and listened to the interesting commentary by director Roberta Findlay. She doesn't understand why it got an x-rating at all, but believe me, this was very strong stuff back in 1985. Basicially a gang of drugged out baddies get kicked out of their basement dwelling and arrested, and soon come back to kill everybody left in the tenement. This has some great stuff in it, some really zonked out homicidal gang members, and some residents that decide to put up a fight. And it is has some pretty decent production value, and the main goodies, extreme graphic violence and a high abundance of blood. This is a good eighties nasty, which deserves a place in your sleeze collection.
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