The story in details:
David Lamont buys a new house, three floors and 3300 square feet just for him... He judges books, which one are to publish, he’s a literary agent or something, and he keeps saying “make me care” to say that the story was not involving. He’s always super-busy, he doesn’t listen to people, he forgets to help his friend Garrett, has no intention of reading his secretary’s story, and then he screams at a guy on the street simply because he was looking at his building’s intercom... I mean, just for that. It’s not like you see someone in a hoodie and it must be a criminal :-/
He bumps into a girl, Audrey of the third floor, right below him. There’s a big party at his house, and Audrey’s there too, and Garrett comes all drunk and angry at himself for believing for one second that he would have actually helped him, that he could count on him.
Things start getting weird when a policeman, Soll, comes to tell him that he must check his papers because there’s a guy, the son of the previous owner, claiming that it’s his house. His secretary Rebecca Fay tells him that a certain Dunlop, that he keeps forgetting, was at his party and sent him a thank-you card.
David gives Audrey the key to his place saying that he keeps forgetting stuff and she could help... I mean, what ? They just met! Later she’ll show up in his bed to have sex with him, and she tells him that the place freaks her out because of stories about its ex-owner.
At home he finds an envelope with murder-scene pictures. He shows them to detective Soll, who says nothing ever happened in that house that the police know of. He breaks his bathroom’s tiles to reveal the same tiles as in the pictures.
The elevator gets stuck for a little while and he becomes claustrophobic, and when he’s finally out his heart is bumping. He finds a vhs cassette of a police report of a multiple murder at that place, called “the killing floor” in police jargon. Soll says the vhs looks authentic and takes away the knife that came with it. Soll calls him later to say “watch your steps” and he barricades himself in the house, crazy scared, a mess, then he runs to Audrey downstairs. He almost killed Garrett, poor guy.
He discovers that someone taped him while he was sleeping and showed it to him only minutes later.
He goes to sleep in his office where Rebecca wakes him up. David sees Audrey talking to Thurber, the guy who claims ownership to his house. He follows him to his apartment and then calls Soll. He attacks Audrey at home, saying that she wanted to buy his house and that he saw her with Thurber, but she tells him that Thurber didn’t have a son. He leaves and decides to sell the house. Soll calls him to tell him that Thurber was murdered, and that he was actually Hawkins, an actor.
He sees a figure looking at him from the up front apartment, and goes straight there to find it full of pictures of him and Rebecca begging for forgiveness, saying that she loves him. She also tells him that she saw Soll in Audrey’s place, but when they meet Soll acts as if he didn’t even know her. Next, Rebecca calls him to say that she checked and there is no detective Soll, that it’s the name of a character from Dunlop’s book. They fight and chase each other. Soll keeps saying that it was only an act, that no-one was supposed to get hurt, that the gun’s a fake.
David finds Audrey’s body and throws Soll off; he’s not dead yet, and keeps yelling that it was just an act. They fight again and he kills Soll.
Rebecca comes and sees him with Soll’s body. He doesn’t want to call the police because he says that everything point at him, so she says that they should get rid of everything, and she help him take away the bodies; they go to her parents farm and he cuts them into pieces and feeds them to the pigs. He throws up, takes a shower crying and she hugs him and kisses him... then they go back and he proposes to go back to their old lives as if nothing ever happened.
At home, he finds another envelope like the others, but this time there is a manuscript inside. “A stranger’s hand” by Rebecca Fay. He starts reading and learns that he could have avoided it all if only he had read it sooner but she knew he could never be bothered with her book. She hired two actors to play Thurber and Soll, she took actual murder scene pictures at the archives, she killed Audrey, and she has pushed him “right on to the killing floor”. She may have proof against him or something I don’t know, but it ends with her saying that she’d be his number one client maybe, he’d chose the end of the story, but alive or dead their paths are now irremediably linked. “live or die they’d be together”.
So, it was not bad. Sure you might be wondering why the hell Soll kept going at him since he wasn't really a cop but just an actor: didn't he understand that things were getting out of control when they fought the first time, when he fell down... no, he had to keep going at him...
and there's the detail of how fast David goes out of his mind... he turns from rich successful man with everything under control to scared little boy in the blink on an eye...
it is not a great movie, but it's not bad, definitely acceptable.
David-Marc Blucas
Rebecca-Shiry Appleby
ITA The killing floor-omicidio ai piani alti
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