You think you’ve got problems with your neighbours? This film is the neighbour from hell scenario all wrapped up in a little late night gay love, some light stalking and a tense cat and mouse thriller.

The story is centred on Jeffery (Daniel Sailu) who moves into an apartment block in New York to be closer to his lover Rene. His best friend Nicky (Heather Simms) warns him about her feelings regarding the overly affectionate landlady, a wonderfully cookie performance from Patti D’Arbanville (‘Flesh’ – ‘I know what you did last summer’).  Then the whimpering begins from under the floor boards. The hulking Stewart who’s the screw-loose handyman turns up to help. You just know it isn’t going to be a trapped kitten.

I liked this film, I kept thinking I knew where it was going and then being surprised, it uses a lot of well known cinematic tricks to trick you again and again and has some moments of high camp too. It folds into itself at the end with a nasty climax, lots of gruesome discoveries and not one of the characters end up being who they seem to be. All that and a decent gay love/lust story too.  

It’s got elements of ‘Pacific heights/misery and Rear Window’ all unsettling and chilling the plot and keeping the whole thing bubbling over like your ex’s head in a pot on the stove

An above average queer killer thriller

Out Now: £14.99