OCCUPANT is another indie horror flick shot in a single apartment in New York. The story sees a normal guy moving into his deceased grandmother's apartment only to find something nasty already living there. Sadly, the story is so cheap that nearly everything takes places off screen despite one good scene at the climax. The rest is an array of genre tropes and clichés on a non-existent budget.

The movie reminded me a little of "Paranormal Activity" in that it has some hand held camera shots as well as using things like "DAY NINE." It reminded me of the classic "House" as there was a huge hole in the closet that apparently "things" were coming through.

Danny Hill's grandmother dies in the opening scene. Danny (Van Hansis) becomes a squatter in her apartment on the advice of Joe, the Doorman (Thorsten Kaye) and Joe's lawyer friend. He wants the apartment for the same rent control price his grandmother had it. The landlord wants Danny out so he can rent the 3500 square foot, downtown NYC apartment for big bucks. Joe gets Danny everything he needs to stay there, unfortunately there are weird things going on in the apartment and Danny quickly develops cabin fever.

The movie doesn't have a lot of characters and is practically a one man play. The movie plays you along to the end.

F-bomb, brief night time sex, no nudity

Just to give you a frame of mind here: The Occupy Wall Street movement was much more exciting than this movie.

Sadly, this was a waste of time and I know this because it's another movie that literally starts to leave my mind as the end credits roll. These reviews are the hardest to write due to the quickly vanishing thoughts and the fact I barely know what I just watched. But, I'll try.

Not-Stephen Dorff is all-but locked into a rent-controlled NYC apartment after his grandmother passed on. Several people encourage him to stay put for just under two weeks to get a court order and assume the sweet lease. Only, Not-Stephen Dorff has zero patience and less mental capabilities.

In other words, he starts to go mad. Maybe there are ghosts in the place, maybe it's rats or maybe it's his conscious…but he loses it anyways.

Not sure if I believe it, but hell, I didn't spend the few bucks they did to make this. At least the movie started well with interesting ideas and the lead actor did put his all into it. So I'll give it those kudos.

Just can't recommend and would advise just to watch the ten times more entertaining and similar '1408.'