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100 Feet

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

The best horror movies aren't really horror movies at all. They take domestic situations that bedevil us - addictions, petty grievances, damaged relationships - and add a supernatural twist. Authors like Stephen King know that humanity is far more horrible to each other than any demon could possibly be...the presence of the supernatural just pushes people over the precipice.

Marnie Watson (gorgeous Famke Janssen, unafraid to get dirty in this role) has been released early from her prison sentence for killing her abusive cop husband Mike (Michael Pare). She returns to her home years later by Mike's partner Shanks (Bobby Cannavale) with an ankle bracelet that triggers an alarm if she strays more than one hundred feet. But Mike isn't done with Marnie yet. He's back from the dead, determined to keep Marnie from discovering the secret buried in their former home. To get rid of the ghost, Marnie will have to sever the connection to the thing Mike holds most dear.

Although 100 Feet seems like it's about the ankle bracelet Marnie wears, it also sounds a lot like a restraining order. Given that Marnie repeatedly reported domestic abuse cases to the police, which were investigated exclusively by Mike's buddies, the comparison is apt. Marnie is an abuse survivor who has been through hell...and now hell is coming for her.

100 Feet effortlessly demonstrates how powerless a victim can feel. Mike is always there, lurking, and Marnie is literally and figuratively trapped with him. Before, his power as an authority figure kept her from getting help; now, his paranormal existence prevents anyone from believing her.

Mike's outbursts are visceral and ugly; when Marnie desperately clings to the one man who believes her (Ed Westwick as Joey), the response is shockingly violent. And that's how it should be. Domestic abuse is an ugly spiral, and Marnie's desperate struggle easily mirrors that of women who abusive flesh-and-blood men beating them senseless.

When Marnie demands to know what Mike wants, he smears her head along the wall to spell one letter, "U." 100 Feet uses a disturbing ghost tale to send a very real message: in the end, abuse is all about control of another human being.

When i first read about this film i must say i was a bit weary about renting it as it seemingly was from one of these new "extreme" companys that produce so many films a month that all are poorly made, edited and just in general are stupid much like The tattoo artist, Sublime, and bascialy anything "dimension extreme" has to produce Unless you care for very poor special effects and nudity that is placed in the film just because it can be done. But i digress, 100 feet tells the story of a woman recently opted for house arrest from prison after the gruesome murder/ self defense act against her husband, a well known and liked police officer, whos former partner just so happens to be the officer in charge of watching after her during her sentence. While she is free from the prison bars, she quickly learns her own home is becoming a prison itself, as neighbors whom she once chatted with now turn away from the "murderer" and children are told to stay away from her house altogether even on halloween during trick or treating ( a rather sad scene itself there) as well as the realization that despite the fact her husband has passed on, his angry and vengeful spirit has decided to extract his final revenge in the one place she cant leave, the place she should feel comfort in her own home. While the special effects arent over the top for the husband, i will say they are remeniscent of the effects in Hollow man, the actress does a trully great job at portraying a broken woman trying to find peace for herself in the mortal world and justice for herself in the spirit world

I liked 100 Feet, I found it entertaining as a woman who is under house arrest finds that the past really does come back to haunt you. Famke Janssen is a pretty good actress and plays the battered wife, now victim, now fighting back, very well.
I liked also how the film builds and doesn't show all its cards too soon as it ropes you in to a real showdown.
Ok so this is no academy award winner to be sure and they seem to be pumping out films of this ilk every other week, what is different here however is it's not just about haunting or revenge, it's about survival, even under the most supernatural encounters.
As far as ghost films go, this is not a bad effort, not a bad effort at all.

To start off, I thought that the movie had some truly scary moments. Famke Jannsen is a very good actress who pulls off the role of a woman who is haunted by the dead husband that she killed in self-defense. The storyline was good, though fairly predictible. What dropped the score by two points were three particular scenes:

*SPOILER*

1. In a house where the ghost of her abusive husband is physically assaulting her, she has a lapse in intelligence and STICKS HER HAND INTO A GARBAGE DISPOSAL to retrieve a ring.

2. In a house with the violent ghost of her husband, she sleeps with a younger man for the sole purpose of irritating the ghost, thus causing the young man to experience a horrifying death at the hands of said ghost.

3. The priest refuses to bless the house because of a noise. Huh?

Overall, maybe worth a rental. I wouldn't buy it, though.

A woman kills her husband in self defense, goes to jail, but she gets beat up (something you'll hear about long into the movie), and she is put under house arrest. Her husband was a cop and his partner is the one who puts her under house arrest. He hates her but she says she called him several times about the abuse and out of the blue toward the end, he believes her. Anyways, she starts to see her husbands ghost as he attacks her. The lovely Famke Janssen puts on a very good performance but the story has several plot holes that makes you ask why. She is given 100 feet to move about but she clearly goes past the that several times in the movie and the ending was quite stupid. I think this was a very enjoyable film if you can suspend your mind for 90 minutes.

This is one of the best horror films to come along in years. It is pure horror, not the mixture of comedy and horror that chokes the market. OK, there were a few plot holes, but the movie was so good that I forgive them. And let's be honest... it's a rare horror film that is devoid of plot holes. The movie has a creepy atmosphere that never lets up. The ghost was well done but I'm not sure how it was done. It did not seem CGI. But the movie does not rest on the effects. It's the acting and directing and photography and story that make this film great. And those qualities never waver. I rarely give a film 5 stars..in fact I think this my first 5 star review on Amazon.

100 Feet contains a LOT of gruesome and exciting violence. It's about a woman who's under house arrest for killing her husband, and guess what happens while she's forced to stay inside the house 24 hours a day? Yup, you guessed it- the evil spirit of her husband comes back to, not only haunt her, but literally *torment the living heck* out of her.

Of course this means you won't exactly be treated to a realistic ghostly presence. More like a complete exaggeration. You see this evil spirit simply goes absolutely *berserk* by beating the woman to the point she becomes an emotional wreck, the same way he did when he was alive. This might cause viewers to have mixed feelings because the storyline is definitely not realistic by any stretch of the imagination, but it's *exciting* at least.

The second main character is the cop assigned to keep an eye on the woman by sitting outside in his police car all day and night, and throughout the film he refuses to believe a single word she says. "Ghosts? What? No way!" I won't spoil what happens though. Let's just say, there's a pretty good surprise at the end.

I guess the only mild complaint is that some of the acting is a bit below average, but the storyline is so good you hardly ever notice.

Overall, no there's nothing particularly creative or complex about 100 Feet- it is what the description says. It's exciting and gruesome enough to entertain all horror fans though, I guarantee it.

This movie started off on a really strong note which is maintained through much of the film. I had been prepared to give it four stars. However, the ending ruined it all. The action sequences and haunting were well-done, especially when Mikey beats up Marnie's current lover, but the ending was just so cliche and sloppily done. I just did not buy the way Mikey was defeated, it was utterly anti-climatic, and this movie ended up disappointing me gravely, which is sad since it started off so well.

This is okay. It starts out a lot better than it actually delivers by the end. Acting is actually pretty good throughout, but the FX were just annoying. Premise is a great one. With a tighter script, better fx, and a better ending, this could have worked really well. Not bad for a spin though.

I saw this movie on the sci-fi channel, and from the premise, I thought it was going to be a very cheesy and stupid movie. The title made me think it was about flying in an airplane. Boy, was I in for a suprise! A movie that's on the sci-fi channel...that's actually scary?! Granted, this wasn't a cheesy sci-fi original movie. However, the company who distributed this is The Asylum, and you all should know all about that company. Making low budge rip offs to big name blockbusters: AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, The Terminators, Transmorphers, The Day the World Stopped, The Haunting of Winchester House, etc. This movie, on the other hand, was actually very creepy with its slow burning atmosphere and the shocking gore effects. Along with the excellent acting from the lead actress, and the visuals of the ghost, this movie is a 5 star movie considering I was expecting a "no more than 2 star" movie. Simple sympnosis: A woman kills her abusive husband in self defense, and lands in jail. When's she's released, she's under house arrest via an ankle bracelet that spares a 100 feet radius, thus explaining the movie's title. Her dead husband's ghost comes back to haunt her because he has unfinished business to take care of. This leads to there being a mystery, and you gotta watch the flick to understand! Like I said, although the premise sounds silly, the execution of it is very well done, and the acting from the main character is definately something to take note. She's not one to coward down and run away (she's being spied on by the cops, after all). She stands her ground and makes it well known to her ghost husband that "it's HER house and she is NOT going away". Good kick ass attitude. And, the visual imagery of the ghost is downright spooky, and the gore that results from him attacking his wife's grocery delivery boy is graphic and NOT for younger viewers. See this movie. It's great, which was pretty rare for The Asylum! lol.