Tenement

1985
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1h 34m

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5.5/10

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Action Crime Horror Thriller

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

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Director Roberta Findlay says the savage rape of Leona (Rhetta Hughes) was inspired by the real-life rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, which occurred on March 13, 1964. At the time this was filmed, the widespread public understanding of the Genovese case was that while she was being murdered, many witnesses who resided in her apartment complex saw the event transpire and chose not to act either by intervening directly or alerting the authorities. This led to decades of the case being considered emblematic of bystander apathy and group inhumanity; however, this perception was derived almost totally from one largely inaccurate account of the murder that in the twenty-first century has been heavily debunked.

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Featured in Roberta Findlay on 'Tenement' (2005)

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Tenement
Sung by the Kool Krew
Written by Pete Warner, Denise L. Davis and David Baughan
Produced, Arranged and Performed by Pete Warner and Denise L. Davis
© 1985 Zip Zap Music, ASCAP/Warner's Thunder Music, SESAC

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9/10

A sadly forgotten B-movie classic

This is without a doubt director Roberta Findlay crowning achievement and one of the true essential of 1980's 'urban warfare' movies. This film is proudly a B-movie, wearing it's bloody blackened heart on it's gore drenched sleeve. And I truly wouldn't have it any other way. Featuring mostly unknowns although some would later find success in varying degrees, Karen Russell (from "Vice Academy" and "Hell High"), Dan Snow (Yup, old Ciger Face himself from the Toxic Avenger movies) and Paul Calderon, who would go on to do bit parts in many great movies. This is a nasty one, broom handles where they have NO right being, sadistic violence, and general depravity combine to make a potent concoction. I loved every second of it. And the theme song by 'The Kool Crew' is great.

Eye Candy: Corinne Château and Karen Russell get topless

My Grade: A-

DVD Extras: Commentary by Roberta Findlay; Interview with Findlay; Photo gallery; radio spot; Original Trailer; and Trailers for "Blood Sisters" (with nudity), "Blood Feast 2", "Duck the Carbine high massacre", and "New Barbarians"