The Tenement is a a collection of four stories. Each one centered around a person living there. The movie takes place in the town of Fair view Falls and spans twenty years. The Tenement building is a place where a lot of strange and evil things occur.

The first segment takes place in 1980 where we meet Ethan Fernier. He's a young man who lives and takes care of his bed-ridden mother. He works in a flower shop and likes to watch horror movies. Winston Korman movies especially. One day he gets to make a delivery of black roses to Korman. When he gets to meet Korman he makes a fool out of himself and everybody there starts laughing at him. He runs away and later that night after his mother keeps yelling at him for this and that, Ethan snaps. He puts on a custom and becomes the 'Black Rose Killer'.

Segment two takes place in 1990 and is centered around Sarah. A young girl who is mute. Her family takes a vacation out in the woods. But they didn't come alone. Their neighbor, who really likes Sarah, has followed them out to the country. While her parents run to the local store, Henry decides to make his move on Sarah. He thinks she'll be easy prey, but he soon learns that she isn't all that easy to deal with.

Segment three takes place in 1999. Here he have Jimmy returning home from a group therapy meeting. On his way home he is attacked by a wolf. The next day he starts feeling weird and starts believing that he is turning into a werewolf. He then goes on a murderous spree, but is it a werewolf doing the killing or is Jimmy just plain crazy??

The finale segment takes place a year later in 2000. A guy dresses his car up to look like a taxi. He then drives around town and picks up young women. He then kidnaps them and murders them. But one day he pick's up the wrong woman. She leads him to a deserted place and the taxi driver finds out that she's not all that easy to kill.

COMMENTS:

All I have to say is WOW! This movie was pretty damn good folks. It did, however have a few minor flaws, but what movie doesn't? This is the first movie of Glen Baisley's that I've seen, and after this viewing I'm differently going to check out his other movies!

I really enjoyed the story and I thought it was well written. The direction by Glen is pretty good. I do have one complaint about the sound. I don't know if it was just my setup here at home or what, but in some scenes I could barely hear the dialogue. Hopefully that'll be fixed when the DVD comes out. There's enough blood to whet your whistle but this isn't a blood bath movie.

The acting was alright. There were no break out performances in my opinion. But then again this is a 'low-budget' production. Although I did like Danielle Russo's character in the Taxi Driver segment, or maybe it was just because I liked her!? Hmmm....who knows! muahaha. Anyways on with the review. On a bad note, the actor playing 'Jimmy' in the Werewolf segment really, really annoyed me. I don't really know what it was but he just got under my skin. I was beginning to think that he was hopped up on some major drugs! As for the Ethan Fernier character, I think you can really relate to him. Or atleast I could. What would you have done with all those people laughing at you and having that bitch of a mother. Excuse my language, but man she really got under my skin! I would have snapped a long time ago.

I really liked most of the music on this film. I especially liked the theme music done by Sal Sirchia. I thought it was pretty catchy. I also thought they did a good job with setting up some of the scenes with the music.

After seeing this film I can understand now why it won "Best Feature Horror" film in the Third Annual Putnam County Film and Video Festival. I also believe all the hype that I read about it on some of the other review sites. If you want to read more about 'The Tenement', you can visit the Light and Dark Productions website at www.lightanddark.net. And get ready for the DVD, it comes out on April 13th and will be packed full of goodies for you to enjoy! This is a highly enjoyable and fun flick to watch. I would recommend it to anyone.

I want to thank Glen Baisley at Light and Dark Productions for letting me see this movie, I really appreciate it.