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Another one of those "let's make a foreign movie into a Hollywood version", and yet again, as with so many other such attempts, it failed and was put to shame by the original.

Given the fact that the original Japanese "Apartment 1303" wasn't particularly much to write home about, then you would think that director Michael Taverna would have it nice and easy here to make it into a better remake. You would think so! But wow, this American version of "Apartment 1303" turned out to be even worse and more boring than the original Japanese version.

The storyline is essentially the same as in the Japanese version, a woman movies into an apartment that is haunted by something sinister because of a tragic event that took place in the self same apartment.

This American version of "Apartment 1303" was nowhere even remotely near being scary or spooky in the least bit. And it was a rather pointless and dull experience to sit through. I had initially hoped that Rebecca DeMornay would be able to lift up the movie even just a bit, but that proved not to be the case, as she wasn't given much to work with in this movie.

Some times it is better to not meddle with original versions of movies, and just leave them to what they initially were and are. I strongly suggest that you watch the Japanese version of "Apartment 1303" if you absolutely have to watch this story. However, be warned, you are not in for much of an improvement.

'APARTMENT 1303 3D': One Star (Out of Five)

American remake of the 2007 Japanese horror film ('APARTMENT 1303'), which was based on the book by Kei Oishi. It tells the tale of a haunted apartment that drives it's residents to suicide. The sister of it's latest victim investigates her death and falls victim to the disturbed ghost as well. It was written and directed by Michael Taverna and is his second feature (after the 1996 drama 'MANAGUA', 17 years earlier). It stars Mischa Barton (who's most well known from the popular TV series 'THE O.C.'), Rebecca De Mornay, Julianne Michelle and Corey Sevier. The film is one of the worst horror movies I've seen in years!

Barton stars as Lara Slate, a young woman who's still living with her alcoholic mother, Maddie (De Mornay). Maddie was a successful musician who now drinks her days and nights away, out of depression. Lara and her younger sister, Janet (Michelle), have long had troubled relationships with their mother and Janet has finally decided to do something about her's. She's moved out of her mother's home and into a creepy apartment (1303) in downtown Detroit. She's warned, by a nine-year-old neighbor girl named Emily (Madison McAleer), that several other residents (in that apartment) have committed suicide there. Janet soon winds up having the same fate. Lara is crushed by the news and moves into the apartment to investigate (and away from her abusive mother). She has help from her sister's boyfriend, Mark (Sevier), but soon finds herself haunted by a troubled ghost as well.

I haven't seen the Japanese original but I imagine it has to be a lot better than this turd (fans of it must be outraged). This movie feels like something I could have written in middle school; it pieces together a bunch of random nonsensical scenes that aren't scary and just don't add up to anything. By the time it's over the viewer is thinking 'what the hell did I just watch and what was the point?'. It has no point, it's just a complete waste of time. The acting is atrocious, the mother/daughter drama is painful to watch and both Barton and De Mornay look horrible in the film. The movie just has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. It's an insult not only to the movie it's remaking but to all horror films in general!

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I just finished watching this film. There is absolutely no aspect of this film that I can praise. It's one of those films where you realize you are in trouble about five minutes in. The acting is wooden and not believable. The writing and direction are not at a professional level, to put it nicely. The plot is ridiculous and there are no scares whatsoever present in this movie.

By highlighting well known actresses, they are hoping to cash in on their names. However, don't be fooled by that. It is the worst film I've ever seen Rebecca DeMorney in and Mischa Barton is an embarrassment. When you watch a film like this, the inevitable question is "did they realize how bad the film is?". I cannot answer that question, but once a project is a go and the actors don't back out, I guess they just hope it will find a market. This film deserves no market, it is that bad!

Worst acting Worst directing Worst editing Worst *everything*

I watched because it starred (supporting role) Rebecca DeMorney (sp?). But I was really taken back by her AWFUL acting as well as the awful acting of every other actor in the movie. I was so embarrassed for her performance and wondered why she agreed to play this tacky, tacky part.

Had her acting career started with the caliber of this example, she would never have even met Tom Cruise. (Yes! THAT bad.)

I knew within 10 minutes that this movie was bad. We stopped watching, but I have a hard time leaving a movie unfinished and went back to see the rest of it. HOPING it might improve.

It didn't. Not . one . bit.

It is always nice to discover a well directed horror film. This isn't one of those though. You know those movies where you see the first scene and you know right then and there that it will suck all throughout? This is one of them. It is the kind of movie Hallmark channel would make if Halmark made horror movies. It has the feeling and directing of a Hallmark channel movie, but with a ghost sitting on the toilet. Seriously, it is that bad.

Embarrassingly poor script, acting and directing - along with hardly any 'scary' bits - made watching this movie a chore. I started playing Angry Birds half way through. And I hate Angry Birds.

I can't imagine how desperate the Rebecca DeMornay and Mischa whatever her last name is must have been to sign on to do this movie - everything is wrong with it. Script, direction, sound, photography, plot -- literally every aspect of the movie stinks.

This movie is so terrible that it made me appreciate all the skill and talent that I had always taken for granted as a viewer, the things that add up to making a decent movie: sound, camera angles, lighting, music -- not to mention the obvious: acting ability and plot. This movie had none of it.

I love a good ghost story so we ordered it on demand without considering the possibility that it could be so unbearably bad we would actually decide to stop watching. I don't hesitate to cut my losses and stop watching a bad movie partway into it, but my partner rarely does -- her attitude is, how bad can it be? Yet, even she agreed that we couldn't watch it for a moment longer.

Who cares if the actors are gorgeous, as another reviewer felt compelled to point out twice. What on earth does that have to do with anything? I know a lot of gorgeous people - that doesn't mean I'd want to endure two hours of watching them in a terrible movie.

I have never posted a movie review before but felt compelled to do so, just to save someone else from making the same mistake. What a waste of time and money. THE WORST.

This movie sucks. Period. The characters are vapid and uninteresting and compete undeveloped. The attempt at scares are amateur at best. This felt like a vanity project funded by washed up actresses. Literally no redeeming qualities in this movie whatsoever.

It felt like the movie was had over by the time the first sister was done talking with herself and the movie tried to be scary.

Rebecca Demornay even sings. Sad, sad, sad.

Skip this movie. Or maybe make up a drinking game for it. Something like take a drink every time you realize what a terrible film this is- seriously. Lol

I am watching this DVD right now and felt the urge to post a review half way through. This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I have read screenplays by Labradors that read better than this. I love the horror genre so I was hoping this would be good but now I have to go to Blockbuster in the morning and demand my 6 dollars back. How does Mischa Barton get a gig when she obviously cannot act? All the good writers in the world that can't catch a break and someone give this trash a green light....it just makes no sense at all? Hopefully it gets better otherwise I may have to take it back tonight and I don't really want to drive to the video store at 1am.

My subject says it all. It is so bad it will make you appreciate the good movies more or even mediocre ones. It starts off normal and interesting but it gets stupider and stupider until it maxes out to the point that you want to stop watching but you are torn since you invested some time already so you give it a chance that maybe it'll get better but no, the stupidity goes beyond max or over 100% and you'll just be happy that the movie is over and will promise yourself that you will value your time from then on. Basically the movie will change your perspective in life and you will never take your time for granted ever again.

"Apartments don't kill people, people kill people." Janet (Michelle) is excited to finally move out and get her own apartment away from her overbearing mother. Soon after she moves in she starts to see and hear strange things. Her sister Lara (Barton) is stuck playing the go between with Janet and her mom and doesn't take Janet's concerns serious, until it's too late. I have made a habit of not watching trailers or reading reviews before I see a movie. To me that helps me to go in with a blank slate and not any real expectations. When the movie is over that is when I look at the reviews for it. I thought that this was actually fun to watch. It was fast moving and entertaining. What it wasn't was original, I know it's a remake but even so this type of movie has been done a million times and most of them better then this. That said though again this was pretty entertaining and kept me watching and interested the entire time. Almost all the reviews that I read for this really roasted it and I'm not entirely sure it deserves all the bad press it got. Its worth watching but nothing I would buy. Overall, nothing original or really scary but it was entertaining like a movie should be. I give it a B.

This might be the worst acted movie I've ever seen! But even that was great compared to the simple script and terrible directing. I felt like I was watching a movie that my kid made on a camcorder. It was almost so bad that I started laughing. Take my advice and watch something else. Anyone who liked this movie must either be brain dead or related to someone who was involved with production. From beginning to end I cringed not in fear, but in the amateurism that this movie displays. It was also very predictable with little to no mystery. My wife likes some of the dumbest movies ever made and even she kept repeating how bad it was. At one point I got up to get a drink and when I came back I hadn't missed anything. It forces itself through the motions and repeats nuances from other horror flicks. This movie could not have cost more than a couple grand to make.

I didn't even want to give this film 1 star it was that bad!! This was possibly the worst film I've ever watched... Film felt like it started 20 minutes into the film. Mischa Barton's acting was truly atrocious. I found myself huffing, puffing, sighing and rolling my eyes up to heaven near enough the whole way through!! Janet the sister annoyed me constantly throughout also. The film was long, boring, unrealistic and just plain rubbish. Nothing scary about it whatsoever. Poor acting all around felt like a really bad low budget movie!! Save yourself the torture and watch something else!! Not worth losing 2 hours of your life for

What...just what?

Everything about this movie is just bad. The plot is a whole bunch of what, and the ending is a whole bunch of what the f***! The acting sucks...like was Mischa Barton always this terrible at acting? And the actress who plays the younger sister is just as bad. The plot is nonsensical. Character development is at a zero. Script is garbage. And why the hell does everyone talk to themselves so damn much?

Also, this is suppose to be a scary movie, but not much scare. Seriously whenever they do try to scare viewers, they use every cliché scare attempt in the book, it's almost embarrassing. The lights shut off, is there going to be something in the dark? There's a noise coming from the closet, is something going to jump out of it when she opens it?

Save your time and your money.

I saw this movie yesterday and I enjoyed it. The acting was good. The stars who played the younger sister, Julianne Michelle, and the mother, Rebecca DeMornay were especially good actors. They saved the picture and made it enjoyable. I am tough on Horrors. Most are made for little boys by little boys, sex, nudity, gore. In this one you will actually see people acting without sex and gore. The young sister, Julianne Michelle, has a great body and her clothes stay on during a sizzling scene with Corey Sevier. They are both so great looking, exciting to watch and should have been longer, much longer. The acting was very good especially by DeMornay and Julianne Michelle. Rebecca DeMornay has done horror before and she is still nice looking. The director and actors did a good job considering the script seemed weak. My two guy friends and I actually had fun watching this one.

First of all, I wanna thank to the directed, to making this time wasting piece of bored. I also want to thank for the entire cast of this garbage for giving their worst performance. I really wanna thank to the eye gouging of 3D. (there's no 3D effects in this movie.) the 3D like blowing your mind. you keep thinking and waiting when the 3D shows it creepiness. The acting was horrible. specially for Julanne Michelle. the chemistry of Rebecca De Mornay and Mischa Barton was so bad to worst. The plot look like blah, blah, blah and pointless.

I keep thinking why those peole wasting their time to making a piece of garbage like this?

Don't see this movie. EVER!