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Editorial Review:
When interior decorator Juliette Lewis inherits a handsome, huge New York apartment at the rent-controlled monthly bargain of $400, it looks too good to be true. It is. Walking into the creepiest collection of neighbors since Roman Polanski's The Tenant, she's accosted by nosy first-floor busybody Shelley Duvall ("Is that your boyfriend? Oh, you like older men?"), a surly superintendent who isn't allowed his own set of keys, a mystery tenant who flees at the sight of her, and a reclusive fourth-floor neighbor who turns a war of wills into an all-out guerrilla campaign of terror. When her place is overrun with rats and maggots (yech!), pushy boyfriend William Hurt insists she leave, but she's determined to continue her first bout of independence...even if it kills her.

First-time director Josh Klauser manages an entertaining if not quite engaging bit of urban paranoia--what apartment dweller hasn't worried about a secretive neighbor?--but lets it all slip into a silly, half-baked climax and a thoroughly predictable final twist. He also slips in references to Rear Window and Pacific Heights (two other paranoid tales of nasty neighbors), but none of it compares to morning-show personality Hurt's creepy TV weather clown routine: he sings, he dances, he chirps "Rise and shine" with the droopy-eyed intensity of an over-caffeinated drug addict. Now that's scary. --Sean Axmaker

The 4th Floor [Region 2] Reviews:
A Cavalcade Of Crazies...
2009-03-01 - Jane Emelin (Juliette Lewis from Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, and From Dusk Till Dawn) moves into an apartment building by herself, much to the chagrin of her goofy, TV weatherman boyfriend, Greg Harrison (William Hurt from Body Heat, Altered States, A History Of Violence, and Mr. Brooks). He had hoped they would live together across town. Odd events occur almost immediately, as Jane meets her new neighbors, including apartment manager, Martha Stewart (Shelley Duvall from The Shining), a creepy locksmith (Tobin Bell, Jigsaw himself!!), and the nice Mr. Collins (Austin Pendleton from Wishcraft). Jane is besieged by a plague of flies, maggots, and mice! She is threatened by mysterious notes in the hallway, and the never-seen tenant directly beneath her in #4 keeps pounding on the ceiling below, even to the point of destroying Jane's tile floor! Is Jane cracking up, or is there actually an eeevil conspiracy at work? THE 4TH FLOOR is a fun, twisty little tale w/ daft-as-a-brush characters and dark humour throughout. Enjoy...

great suspense
2007-01-02 - You will never believe it, but the 4th Floor was the first DVD I've ever owned. In fact, I finally got a DVD player this Christmas (a week ago, in 2006). Yes, when it comes to "getting with the times" you can say I'm pretty slow, but this movie will now go down in history as the first DVD I've ever had, and that alone makes the overall rating jump from a 4 to a 5.

This is the kind of movie that's scary in the Scooby Doo style. No, I don't mean the Scooby Doo movies with Sarah Michelle Gellar (who's totally hot, by the way) I mean the old cartoon series. Remember when you had to guess who the bad guy was? It's like that.

The 4th Floor is about a woman who moves into an apartment building, and to her surprise, the entire building features strange people. In fact, not a single person in that building is normal. Out of all these unusual people, only one of them is responsible for messing with the woman who just moved in. The room below from the woman is how the movie got its name, because that's where the crazy person lives.

Supposedly, this crazy person never comes out of their room. So when the woman in the floor above has to deal with the many irritating problems from the person below (such as constantly beating on the ceiling) this is when the woman decides she wants to know who lives in the room below, and confront them. This is where the suspense comes in.

It's almost like a horror plot, but not quite. It's more along the lines of suspense and mystery.

It's an enjoyable movie, worth watching more than once.

It was ok
2006-08-15 - Okay except for Juliette Lewis' tendencey to whine. It was also pretty predictable. I figured right from the start that her boyfriend (Hurt) was in on it. He was one screwed up dude, pulling the wool over everybody's eyes.

Not What I'd Expected
2006-05-27 - After reading the 3 reviews, I'd expected The 4th Floor to be fairly good, but it was disappointing. Too many "suspects"....nearly everyone In the movie. I thought it was mostly irritating and only kept watching, expecting it to get better. It didn't.

THE 4TH FLOOR
2006-03-04 - not bad, don't let the three stars fool you, i like this movie its creepy and suspenseful, reminds me of hitchcock's rear window