2/26/2023 0 Comments The resident 2011 full movie![]() ![]() They sit on a bench overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and sip their coffees while Juliet tells Max about her childhood. They know each other mostly from seeing each other around the building at first, but one day when they both show up at the same art gallery opening, sparks start to fly. Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Max is a landlord who just happens to have a cheap apartment, and it doesn’t hurt that he’s broad-shouldered and handsome, just the kind of guy Juliet needs. ![]() Hilary Swank’s Juliet Devreau is an ER doctor looking for a new place to live, after she’s just broken up with an ex. It’s uncomfortable, and grotesque, and twisted, and it doesn’t have a single interesting thing to say or a single unique, memorable setpiece.įor the much of the first act, The Resident plays like a romance. The Shudder description for this movie describes it as “Hitchcockian.” Sure, in a way - this movie is the scene in Psycho where Norman Bates looks through the peephole at Marion Crane in her hotel room, but, stretched out to feature length. The Resident, though, takes this too far and doesn’t use its concept in service of anything except exploitation. And, of course, we in the audience are watching the characters on screen as they undress, have sex, and are murdered for it, and horror often wants to make us feel a little bit bad about that. There is something about the genre that lends itself to stories about people being watched, whether it’s by a ghost, a killer in the woods, or someone peering through a peephole from the room next door. On some level, the vast majority of horror movies are voyeuristic. ![]()
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