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      The Tenant

      Released Apr 15, 2011 1h 36m Horror Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 16% 50+ Ratings Audience Score A diabolical nurse carries on her employer's work in secret and creates a hideously deformed creature. Read More Read Less

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      Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International Low-budget horror movie suffers from reliance on genre clichs and undistinguished performances. Dec 1, 2011 Full Review Mark H. Harris About.com As flawed as it is, The Tenant does deliver the main draw for a slasher movie -- blood 'n guts -- but genre fans might be hard-pressed to stick around waiting for it to appear. Rated: C Sep 23, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A monster/slasher film that is more original in its presentation than most. While not a great film by any means, it beats out others in its low-budget horror genre. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Just another bad creature feature featuring cell phones with no signal. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This film was dreadful and not in a good way. The movie starts with a flashback which encompasses 40 minutes (half of the movie pretty much) and goes on way too long. The prologue is supposed to set up the second half of the film but what happens is mostly confusing and infuriating. When the movie does get going it is revealed to us that most of the potential victims who will die are mute children making this the quietest horror movie ever made. Anyway I think the movie breaks a lot of common sense rules even for horror movie standards. When all was said and done I just felt anger. Avoid the movie unless you're a hardcore Michael Berryman fan. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Twenty-eight years ago, Dr. Walter Newman (Randy Molnar) is running a mental asylum and is also trying to find a way to cure disabilities. His wife, Olivia (Georgia Chris), is against the testing, especially when she tells him she's pregnant with twins. But Dr. Newman's psycho assistant Ms. Tinsley (Sylvia Boykin) wants the tests completed, so she secretly injects one of Olivia's twins with a serum. When the babies are born, the girl is normal, but the boy - the one injected with the serum - turns out to be a monster. Twenty-eight years later, a group of deaf students and their chaperones get a flat tire in front of the now abandoned mental hospital, and decide to stay there for the night. But the monster child is all grown up, and ready to wreak some havoc on the unsuspecting kids. This film tried to be a new Frankenstein-style film, but failed miserably. The acting, directing, effects, makeup, everything was beyond B-rated. Plus it was extremely boring, until the end, but even then it wasn't exciting at all because you never got to know the characters in the final half so you didn't care. They could've just focused on the doctor's experiments and be it, but instead the director cut both sections short to incorporate both parts into the film, which wasn't really needed. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Don't ask why but I liked this movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Moved too damn slow! Might have been a decent slasher/monster flick, if it didn't take so long for the opening scene. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A diabolical nurse carries on her employer's work in secret and creates a hideously deformed creature.
      Director
      Ric La Monte
      Screenwriter
      Ric La Monte
      Distributor
      Indican Pictures
      Genre
      Horror, Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 15, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 23, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $15.0K
      Runtime
      1h 36m