100 Feet. Review on 100 Feet Movie

After 7 years and 52 days in prison a young woman, Marnie Watson(Famke Janssen of X-Men) returns to her old house in Brooklyn, New York. She is granted early release from her prison sentence for killing her abusive and brutal husband, violent NYPD cop Mike Watson(Michael Paré) – in self defense.

The release is on a condition that Marnie Watson wears an electronic ankle bracelet and remains within her home that allows her to move in a 100-foot radius in the house during the probation. This effectively put her under house arrest for the remainder of her 6 months prison sentence.

However, the 100-foot radius that Watson's ankle bracelet allows to move around, is only the one of the worst of problems, she faces. Mike's former partner Shanks(Bobby Cannavale) who takes Marnie under his custody, is stalking her from his car across the street, hoping she'll violate the limits of the electronic device during probation and so that he can send her back to prison.

And Above all these, Marnie soon discovers that the house she once called home contains a powerful force bent on her destruction in the form of her dead husband is now a malevolent ghost, still trapped in the house and intents to have a savage revenge against her.

And the only man that can help her is her dead husband’s loyal old partner. Not exactly what she had in mind neither did I, when I picked up 100 FEET with absolutely no expectations, other than to be passing my Saturday week end night and entertained. I’m a not big fan of horror flicks. I knew from tidbits of news pieces friends that this was a good, old school ghost story, and since it was neither a remake nor a sequel to a remake, I was excited. Especially, after watching Phook and 1920. But I had no idea what to expect, which is probably the best frame of mind with which to watch a horror movie. I had a feeling that it was going to be good enough to scare me off sleep. LoL

I was tickled blood red to find out that it was awesome, tense and just downright creepy. From the somber opening sequence of the car ride through New York city, to the candle lit shadows of the seriously creepy house, even to the stark daylight that’s used to highlight some of the ghost’s daytime dish juggling, the lighting and the mood of the scene fit the tone of the story perfectly, often with unsettling results. As for the story, the idea is a good one with a tight script that pulls out some nasty abuse on poor Marnie.

This movie has a serious flaw, narrative wise, not requiring any huge leaps of logic or massive suspension of disbelief. It was a simple, small scale story for a horror flick. All of this was backed up by some stellar ghost effects, some nasty gore bits, and an overall pervasive mood of ghostly. Around every corner, in every poorly lit scene, you just knew that, really bad things are going to happen. I loved the way the ghost looked like an oil fumes in thin air, and the nasty beating that he dished out was an impressive spot of special effects.

Janssen holds on her own in a script that had her acting by herself for the majority of the picture. She was believable, credible and certainly never dull.

Backing her up as the supporting cast, with the intense hatred and self righteous is Bobby Cannavale as Shanks, the ghost’s former partner. He’s always has one big scowl all through his scenes, and he carries “police brother” mentality a little too far. Not the kind of typical Hollywood cop.

The ghost(Michael Paré) instead of crappy CGI monsters, mixed with a ton of ghostly stuff, was echoing classics like The Entity or Poltergeist. Sometimes like the "Mummy" face.

Ed Westwick as Joey was a nice addition as the poor young guy who learns it’s never a good idea to bone the ex-wife of a vengeful spirit! Yeah, he’s got a small act as Delivery boy to be dead in no time.

And what was up with that priest, Father Pritchet(Kevin Geer)? He mouths "Sorry lady, I’m not going to bless your super creepy house for you, but while you kneel there crying, I’ll gladly take the thousands of dollars you just offered to the church." All the while holding the bag with$ close to his chest. That’s just little harsh!

On the downside, the flickering candlelight tried really hard to give me a jump or two and the ghost showed up a little too early for any suspense. It was almost like there was no buildup of tension before flinging the full bore floating dead in our faces, but the amount of tension and the unpredictable nature of this ghost made up for the early appearance.

100 Feet is a great, simple ghost story that has moments to make you scare, clench your teeth and jump at certain times. A good amount of gore and some scary parts with ending is decent and not horrible. All in all, A thriller that doesn’t thrill, A Horror that doesn’t make you scream, but over all a good movie for my Saturday night! I don't knowing if it can scare someone to death to be called Horror Film. Good job, after all of the crap that has come out lately from our bollywood.

Directed & Written by Eric Red

Starring Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Mike Pare & Patricia Charbonneau