Tenants (2024)

Tenants
Tenants

When done right, anthology films can be masterpieces, but if poorly executed, these films may require extensive time to view. For example, Four Rooms is maligned whereas Black Sabbath and Creep Show are arguably considered perfect anthology films. With that in mind, I believe Mesler, O’Neil, Wallick, and their dues can provide an adequate film and my expectations do not fall below ‘medium’. Tenants, much like other sub-genre films, only garner mediocre ratings as their main flaw lies in being a mosaic of different segments to begin with.

Tenants follow the story of Mary O’Neill, who seeks her missing sister set within an unknown apartment complex built with seven floors. Within an apartment complex each floor populated with masked stark realities, Joni begins her search for Emily. After being hopeful of her search, she quickly realizes this wouldn’t be an easy task. However, to unravel the apartment’s mysteries, O’Neill begins her exploration within them.

There is no question that what Tenants achieved surpasses films made with bigger crews, especially when keeping in mind the budget was limited to an expense of only six people for 13 days.

The best aspect of this action is how well Tenants can set the tone and atmosphere while placing the action in a building similar to Silent Hill 3. The problem that it encounters is that some of the many residents’ narratives are very unevenly cut.

Because they are good horror I mean Hoarder and Acting Rash as simple and straight to the point as nice short form narratives that are quite good. Hoarder revolves around a man (Myles Cranford) who lost his wife some time ago and together with his son (Acquah Dansoh) tries to convince him to move forward and leave some of the items. It is worth mentioning that during this short shot, Cranford and Danson managed to leap from calm to screaming at each other quite well during this brief moment, as they both suited their roles very well as sons and fathers of differing beliefs.

Acting Rash is about an ex-child actress (Christa Collins) who goes from curious to what have I got to lose, Matt and Susan Collins who has once been a popular child-directed their agent with just a few hours’ notice before a meeting.

Things are normal until she starts developing rashes on her face. This forces her to run around the house trying to find something that will help.

This short collection works effectively as it is light-hearted in its exploration of fame, stardom, and the beauty industry and astonishingly horrific as Cronenberg’s body-horror with Collins who plays a once-famous child actor, which in itself is a source of tragicomedy.

These segments are very much Tenant A material since most of the stories have a linkage which is held together by a character named Joni. Unfortunately, I did not get what I wished for. Instead, all the remaining segments felt unsatisfactory to me.

To summarize, Tenants has a lot to give out, and considering its constraints of budget and production, should not have been that impressive but it still is and shows intent, creativity, and skilled artwork from the core. While almost all the rest of the stories in the anthology do not hold a candle to Acting Rash and Hoarder there are still elements of sheer hard work and focus that went into this film, that are truly bleak as a stone-hearted devil being complimented for his manners.

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