Description from Letterboxd:
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult.
In addition to Zazie Beetz on the poster, the cast includes Patricia Arquette and Tom Felton.
Hey that’s Van from Atlanta. I’m sure she will be good in this.
I have no idea what the plot or premise of the movie is, but just by the poster this feels like a Kill Bill rip-off. I hope that isn’t the case, but it’s not making it easy to think otherwise.
Plot from IMDB.
A woman takes a job as a housekeeper in a NYC high-rise, unaware of the building’s history of disappearances. She soon realizes the community is shrouded in mystery.
Edit: just watched a minute of the trailer. It actually looks pretty awesome.
The advert doesn’t make the story seem Ike a Kill Bill rip off tother than the absurdity of the hand to hand combat.
Its also reminded me of kill bill, but didn’t occur me that could be a rip off. There should be tons of movie posters will the same pose out there.
Your comment brought invaluable discussion to the table. The film version of judging a book by its cover, but you did it anyway. Bravo!
More like judging a movie by its advertisement — an ad that’s designed to make you interested in the movie.
This ad doesn’t say much. The IMDb summary someone else mentioned sounds much more intriguing. I’d say it’s an ad failure.
What do you think a book cover is? No need to reinvent the wheel here just to seem smart.
With a book cover I can grab the book and read the flap to get an idea. This poster is all I have to go off of. Furthermore, I do tend to trust my instincts with both book covers and movie posters. If someone doesn’t put the effort into them, arguably the simplest thing to put effort into in the grand scheme, what else did they cut corners on? We don’t live in an age where there is some entertainment desert and we go to the movies just because that’s the thing to do on a Saturday with your best girl. I can just not watch this, ever, and I won’t really miss it. The poster’s job is to make me want to watch this, and it doesn’t. Maybe some people are intrigued, and in that case, it’s doing it’s job, but I’m likely pretty close to the target audience for this kind of movie, and it isn’t landing with me.
An example that comes to mind immediately is the poster for One Battle After Another. Ostensibly a movie that I should have been STOKED about. That poster was fucking TRASH, though. One of the worst in a very long time. I kept hearing about the movie, though, and from people I trust, so I watched it. Turns out, I didn’t like the movie. It cut corners on plot and character development the same way the poster cut corners on effective advertising.
That doesn’t even sound scary. I welcome them killing me at this point.
“Let them
try.”
