In 1965, starry-eyed dancer Terry Gionofrio moves to New York City in search of fame and fortune but suffers a terrible injury during a performance. Down on her luck, she finds solace when a kindly elderly couple offers her a place to live in apartment 7A, allowing her to focus on her passion. However, Terry's life takes a turn for the worse when she is drugged and impregnated. Now, she faces a difficult decision: should she risk her well-being and career to continue with the unwanted pregnancy, or take control of her life by exposing the source of her suffering? You know the beats, especially if you've seen Rosemary's Baby, and that's perfectly fine for a movie like this. With familiar stories, characters, and motifs, what makes a movie like this special and worth watching? Stream the movie on FlixHD Apartment 7A.
Terry is a dancer in 1965 who suffers a horrible on-stage accident, leaving her cautious and uncertain about her future. An early scene in which she auditions for a show is one of the film’s best as the play’s director forces her over and over again to repeat the move that injured her, even as it induces more and more obvious pain. The show’s producer is intrigued by this fearless young woman, likely because he can quite literally see her tolerance for the physically brutal. She’s really auditioning for a very different job. Because, of course, he’s the mastermind behind the infamous scheme from the Ira Levin book and Polanski film: to impregnate a woman to bring forth the end of the world.
Thankfully, I have several answers that confirm, yes, you need to see this movie! Let's start by saying, we, as FilmSnobs, are no strangers to Who. We thoroughly enjoyed his female-led surrealist horror film, which blends the fear of generational trauma with the fear of losing one's sanity. James is no novice when it comes to crafting an atmosphere of twisted horror, setting a story around a character's madness with unparalleled creativity and a primal horror that leaves you shuddering or gnashing your teeth. Relic was criminally underrated, and I can't help but guess that this film will be the same. we have the familiar beats: the 'we're not in Kansas anymore' vibe, a sentimental dream, and dangerous naivety leading a young woman down a fantastical, dangerous path.
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