THE TENANT

THE TENANT-1976, Roman Polanski

Trelkovsky, (Roman Polanski, who also directed), a timid file clerk, moves into a rundown apartment with a history: The prior occupant jumped to her death from the dismal room's window. In the psychotic environment of a dark Parisian building that's filled with odd characters, Trelkovsky feels himself overcome by a kind of madness. His slow mental deterioration compels him to contemplate emulating the woman's final, tragic hours.

This was probably one of the creepiest movies i have seen in a long time, i had seen Rosemary's baby a few years ago and wasn't a big fan, in Rosemary the evil prescence was quite literally a satanic cult that ran the apartment building, In Tenant we never learn or see what the ominous evil is that is lurking around in his impossibly quiet apartment building, though the movies are somewhat similiar in theme the similarities end there. At some points the movie is laugh out loud ridiculous but it was all done purposefully and briliiantly to make the characters seem all too real unlike most horror movies of the time where characters are usaually painfully one-dimensional. The cinematography is beautifully creepy, and the still images of the tenants staring at him from the bathroom across the courtyard is one of those haunting and eerie images sure to keep you up when your all alone in the middle of the night, really my only complaint with this movie was that the version i had watched was dubbed! does anyone know what language this was originally in? it looked like some people were speaking english and some french, and at some points it looked like a kung fu flick, but other than that, this movie was brilliant and if you think that you can't be creeped out by a movie then i recommend you watch the tenant, or just watch it anyways...