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What if you refused to help someone and they came back for r

Andrea Van Scoyoc | Tampa, Florida | 05/07/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"~This review will appear in the June 2010 issue of Twisted Dreams Magazine~





Have you ever seen someone in need and offered to help? Or are you one of those people who passes people by and thinks, someone else will do it - don't get involved?



What if your lack of involvement caused devastating circumstances to the victim? What if because of your refusal to help, they sought vengeance against you?



Meet Bobby. Newly out of jail (and I later found out that it was not his fault and was reminded of how badly the American "justice" system sucks. But you'll have to watch to find out why he was jailed!) and just wanting to start over again. He tries to pick up the pieces of what was once his life and moves into his deceased mother's apartment.



And that's when the trouble starts.



It begins with noises, odd and troubling sounds that wake him up and then the visions of his dead mother begin to play havoc with his mind and he is slowly sucked into a never-ending nightmare.



His neighbor, Gina (Calzado) is an abused wife whose husband, Walter (played with far too chilling realism by Durand) likes to come home and smack around on both her and their daughter, Carly.



Bobby may have been in prison, but he still won't stand for his neighbor - cop or not - to beat on his wife and kid and tries to help...but things just start getting stranger.



The visions begin to happen more and more frequently and it's not just Bobby who finds himself thrust into the middle of something he doesn't understand. The visions also begin to manifest themselves to Alyssa (Warner) and to other tenants of the building.



However...the more Bobby tries to help, the more dangerous Walter becomes with devastating consequences to Gina and Carly.



But things are not as they seem and as Bobby slowly loses his sanity (or so he feels) he finds out the real reason why he's being tormented and what he has to do to stop it.



This is a great Noir movie, simply seething with dark tension and chills. I sat on my couch, anxiously anticipating each scene and was so involved that my husband looked at me and said, "Holding hands with yourself, dear?"

I looked down and my hands were clamped so tightly together I was cutting off circulation.



Dark, tragic and with a stellar performance by Kevin Durand as the wife-beating cop that will leave you hating him, but feeling solemn compassion for him as well, culminate to a head in the explosive ending and you'll never quite look at cops...or apartment buildings the same, ever again.







"

I Should Have Rented It

Kimo | Alabama | 02/12/2010

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of those movies to watch if you have absolutely nothing else to do. It's very slow, very predictable, etc., etc., just like most other so-called horror flicks. Waiting on Hollywood to release a worthwhile movie of any kind is like waiting on the next pass of Haley's Comet..., this is especially true with horror movies. The last time I saw a good horror movie was "The Descent." Now THAT was a horror movie!! It was so original..., so very unique., so well casted & directed, etc., etc. It's already a classic. Why can't Hollywood make more movies like that?? So, while we wait on another "The Descent" to be made, I guess we have to suffer with B-level stuff like "The Echo.""

Atmospheric

Just Judy | 05/06/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Slow creepy atmosphere builds into some very skin crawling moments. Like THE RING, This is a horror movie for thinkers and not gore hounds!"