Apartment 1303

Apartment 1303 is a horror movie about a woman who is investigating the death of her sister who had just moved into a new apartment as her first step for independence. With help from her sister’s boyfriend things start to take a turn for the worst when she begins to hallucinate seeing her sister and hearing noises, will she go insane before she can find out what really happened to her younger sister?

Where to start? Before the movie was put on I took a look at the cover of the DVD and I had to admit it looked good, however ten minutes into the movie it was clear that this movie was far from decent.

The plot had many flaws, one of them being that there is no character development within this movie. The viewer is shown a mysterious young girl that would warn people not to go into the apartment but we never find out why she gave those warnings and how she was connected. The audience is also introduced to the landlord, a perverted man that was more than happy to take advantage of a woman but again we are never shown his significance to furthering the plot.

What was supposed to be a mystery horror because of the lack of plot there is no conclusion. People die but nothing gets solved and there is no big reveal. The viewer is left with no clearance on what the plot was meant to be about.

As the movie went on it went from being bemusing to being cringe-worthy, for someone that has just lost their sister, the protagonist is really unfazed, showing no signs of sorrow or regret, she even chooses to move in to the same apartment that her sister was killed in to get away from her mother. The acting is far from perfect and is what makes up the most cringe-worthy moments, the scary moments in this horror film are laughable and it all seemed poorly scripted.

Overall I’d rate this story a 2/5 solely on the fact that I managed to get through it and because it was amusing to say the least. I wouldn’t recommend this to anybody unless you were looking for examples on how not to do mystery horror films.