Donald Koch, a.k.a. "Don", "King Don" and "Tiger", moves from Chicago to the suburbs since his wife Liz is pregnant and they believe the location is adequate to raise a family with children. Liz buys an old house and Don, who is unemployed, goes with his dog Cooper first to renovate the house. Soon he learns from his neighbor Ellie Mueller that the house was a brothel many years ago. Then he meets another neighbor, the sexy Sarah Yates, and they have sex in the house. When Sa... (Full plot summary below)
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Donald Koch, a.k.a. "Don", "King Don" and "Tiger", moves from Chicago to the suburbs since his wife Liz is pregnant and they believe the location is adequate to raise a family with children. Liz buys an old house and Don, who is unemployed, goes with his dog Cooper first to renovate the house. Soon he learns from his neighbor Ellie Mueller that the house was a brothel many years ago. Then he meets another neighbor, the sexy Sarah Yates, and they have sex in the house. When Sarah returns to visit him, he says that their affair was a mistake since he is married and asks her to not come back again. On the weekend, his friend Milo Stone comes to help Don in the renovation. But soon the house shows supernatural events and Milo, Don and Liz learn that the place is haunted with a sordid past.
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| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsStevens slowly and subtly unpacks that heady, provocative conceit with care and in a way that makes his directorial debut feel like the arrival of a major new talent. |
| New York PostSara StewartGore and supernatural comeuppances ensue in a haunted-house flick that mostly eschews jump scares for more satisfying psychological and erotic twists. |
| Film ThreatBobby LePireGirl On The Third Floor has enough carnage and bloodshed to satisfy all gorehounds. Director Travis Stevens gets terrific performances from an excellent cast, and the atmosphere is consistently foreboding. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyWhat’s ultimately less impressive is Stevens’ script, which to varying degrees draws on the templates of “The Amityville Horror,” “The Shining,” “Eyes Wide Shut” and other conspicuous predecessors, but lacks the original fillip or three that might have turned an enjoyable exercise into something really first rate. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe second half’s a letdown — the audience knows where the movie’s going, and gets there before the movie does. Nonetheless it bodes nicely for longtime horror producer Travis Stevens, here making his feature debut behind the camera. |
| Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeThe film is loud and obvious about declaring its themes, as if to distract from their ultimate shallowness. |
| User Reviewalejandro970This is the typical horror movie recipe made with low budget and unknown actors. I do not think it is worth remembering but it works without presumption although it likes to take its time; what is certain is that it will not satisfy everyone. Of course: if you are going to buy a house, check it down to the last centimeter. |
| User ReviewJLauGuy, whose wife is the breadwinner, buys a new house to fix up and starts working on it but it is a rotten ex-whore house that doesn't seem to like him. |
| User ReviewGreyhoundes**** marbles and stan Liz, and jus now realizing that was THE cm punk. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001While I did not enjoy C.M. Punk as the main character, this mixture of haunted house and body horror was a rewarding experience and I didn't really anticipate that. Its course isn't always the most appropriate but its tone contributes a lot to maintain the interest, especially because the film does not favor jump scares - Although it could've done it - and achieves an atmosphere more inclined towards psychological horror because after all the haunted house is actually the key element of the plot. The ending didn't leave me satisfied, but the trip despite the bumps was entertaining. And between so much horror and of such poor quality, this is an option that actually stands out. |
