Sleep Tight (2011)
7/10
For me, started great but couldn't quite stay there
11 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This has a good black comedic/creepy idea – the story of a seemingly quiet concierge in an upscale apartment building who is actually an angry, rather insane depressive who loves to quietly screw with peoples lives and try to make them as miserable as he is. He meets his match in the seemingly always upbeat Mimi, a sexy young woman who lives in the building who literally dances alone around her apartment to peppy music every morning.

Cesar, the super, gets ever more complex and outlandish in his increasingly dangerous attempts at bringing some rain into Mimi's life. But more often than not his plots backfire on him, adding a sort of grown-up Roadrunner/Coyote humor to the very creepy creepiness.

Sadly, and I guess inevitably it grows more serious, more repetitive, more predictable, less logical, less thematic and less fun as it goes along, until I was finally just waiting for it to play out it's familiar horror/thriller tropes and end. However, a well handled last twist won me part way back. But not quite far enough to want to revisit this
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