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| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 4.9(1805) |
| Listed in: | Horror, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Gilles Paquet-Brenner |
| Actors: | Cameron Bright Pascal Greggory Noam Jenkins Eugene Clark Mischa Barton Deborah Kara Unger |
| "Some secrets are left buried." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Gilles Paquet-Brenner | |
| Actors | |
| Cameron Bright | as Jimmy |
| Pascal Greggory | as Joseph Malestrazza |
| Noam Jenkins | as Peter |
| Eugene Clark | as Burnett |
| Mark Claxton | as Richard |
| Taylor Leslie | as Lucy Walczak |
| Rob Roy | as Charles Walczak |
| Josh Strait | as Vincent Walczak |
| Rob van Meenen | as Patrick Walczak |
| Tim Allen | as Police Officer |
| Actresses | |
| Mischa Barton | as Sam Walczak |
| Deborah Kara Unger | as Mary |
| Darla Biccum | as Liz Walczak |
| Shannon Jardine | as Maureen |
| Sophi Knight | as Julie |
| Emily McAfee | as Young Sam |
| Jane Redlyon | as Denise |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 2007 - 2007 |
| Budget: | USD 7,500,000 |
| Plot: | On the day of her birthday, the young engineer Samantha "Sam" Walczak is assigned by her father to conduct a structural analysis of an eight-floor building. One hundred and twenty units are located in the middle of nowhere and require demolition. Sam finds four tenants, having received the eviction notice, but are still living in the building: the caretaker Mary and her teenage son Jimmy, Burnett and lady Denise. Mary lodges Sam in apartment 208, furnished as the former dwellers have never collected the furniture. Jimmy befriends Sam and advises certain "rules" to be adhered to. Sam is haunted during the nights by ghostly noises and discovers that the building has dreadful secrets. She investigates further and finds that the successful architect, Joseph Malestrazza, built the place following the principles of the Egyptian pyramids. Twelve years ago, one revengeful worker walled dwellers in, including Mary's beloved husband, entombing the victims in cement. Over time weird things happen to Sam and she believes that Jimmy might be playing a prank on her, until she finds out the shocking secret of Malestrazza and his building. |
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Continuity: When Sam falls while Jimmy is showing her around, she has a cut on her knee, when she awakes from her nightmare of being entombed in cement and sits up, there are no marks at all on her knee. Continuity: When Jimmy and Mary are talking in their kitchen he is facing the camera and passes her the can opener. The camera shows a closeup of Jimmy and he doesn't appear to move but when the view changes back to the two of them, he has turned to face Mary. |
Quotes
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Julie: [first lines - wakes up in narrow space] Dad? [starting to panic] Dad. Dad. Daddy! Dad! Jimmy: The lights go off every 6 minutes. You know, save electricity and stuff. If you spend a day in the halls, you have to hit the switch 240 times. Jimmy: How do you know when someone really loves you? Mary: That girl really had an effect on you, didn't she? Jimmy: Tell me. Mary: When you're willing to sacrifice everything for someone. There's no great love without it. Joseph Malestrazza: The Light House of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis, destroyed. The Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, destroyed. The Seven Wonders of the World, demolished, burned. All except the Great Pyramids and my buildings. Because both the Egyptians and myself inured human beings in our foundations. All that counts as energy. The world found its light only through the birth pangs of agony and murder. Suffering is a journey to purity and death, and the midwife to eternal existence. [last lines] Sam Walczak: In his lifetime Malestrazza designed 27 buildings, all of which are still standing. This one he called his masterpiece. There are no current plans to demolish it. |
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