Girl on the Third Floor

A solid paranoid and disturbing haunted house flick, the likes of which has never been seen before. CM Punk (The Wrestler) goes out on his own to renovate the new house he bought for his family, but soon discovers that it has a horrific past, is cursed, and a lot of strange things are going on. All sorts of liquids spurt out of holes, glass marbles roll around on the floor, a seductive lady appears to seduce the protagonist and CM Punk literally goes insane. The finale is pretty brutal too, so a decent fun one-off. 65%. (25/10/2019)

A horror with an ordinary theme (a man comes to renovate an old house he recently bought without realizing that it is cursed and haunted), but also with a relatively original concept that adds a specific mythology to the house and interprets the haunting as retribution for a moral mistake. The slow start evokes a disturbing procedural drama about the reconstruction of a dwelling, from the bowels of which various fluids mysteriously ejaculate and glasses fall out at the beginning, but over time the film becomes more brutal. The film is a remarkable and intellectually stimulating genre contribution, with the only bad aspect being that the film tries to disgust and make the audience laugh rather than be tense and frightening, and that the film’s point is more interesting than the characters and performances. (10/10/2019)