Pacific Heights (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
Synopsis:
A couple moves into a Victorian style house in San Francisco, does it up and rents one of the apartments to a psychotic Dom Juan who proceeds to lock himself in and take the place apart as part of a complicated legal scam.
Review:
Hinging on an alleged reality of American law which protects the tenant in such cases, this depressingly preordained thriller reads rather as a yuppie nightmare for those lucky enough to be able to buy and rent. Generically it’s a bit like Gaslight meets The Amityville Horror; indeed Schlesinger appears to be relieving the directorial doldrums with a few attempts at movie quotation (Dario Argento and Hitchcock by way of a personal appearance in a lift).
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
Synopsis:
A couple moves into a Victorian style house in San Francisco, does it up and rents one of the apartments to a psychotic Dom Juan who proceeds to lock himself in and take the place apart as part of a complicated legal scam.
Review:
Hinging on an alleged reality of American law which protects the tenant in such cases, this depressingly preordained thriller reads rather as a yuppie nightmare for those lucky enough to be able to buy and rent. Generically it’s a bit like Gaslight meets The Amityville Horror; indeed Schlesinger appears to be relieving the directorial doldrums with a few attempts at movie quotation (Dario Argento and Hitchcock by way of a personal appearance in a lift).
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
Synopsis:
A couple moves into a Victorian style house in San Francisco, does it up and rents one of the apartments to a psychotic Dom Juan who proceeds to lock himself in and take the place apart as part of a complicated legal scam.
Review:
Hinging on an alleged reality of American law which protects the tenant in such cases, this depressingly preordained thriller reads rather as a yuppie nightmare for those lucky enough to be able to buy and rent. Generically it’s a bit like Gaslight meets The Amityville Horror; indeed Schlesinger appears to be relieving the directorial doldrums with a few attempts at movie quotation (Dario Argento and Hitchcock by way of a personal appearance in a lift).