Excusing the Lifetime style plotting, dialogue, and shooting style, The Landlady isn't an entire bust. Talia Shire is fantastic as the titular character who inherits an apartment complex after she poisons her cheating husband with crab meat and develops an obsession with one of her new tenants.
Peta Shelley turns up at a rather grotty boarding house in W2 with a formidable dragon of a landlady.She pays her money and behaves herself.
In Sunshine, Nevada, the middle-aged housewife Melanie Leroy (Talia Shire) sees her husband Ralston Leroy (Nathan Le Grand) shagging her neighbor and she freaks out. Then she poisons Ralston, who is allergic to seafood, in the dinner.
It's an Original & Light-Hearted but Brutally Bloody Short Film , Containing even Shorter Episodes The Landlady Subtly Enforcing Her 4 Little Rules : 1st ] " Munchies " Starring Marian Elizabeth as the Ganja-Loving 'Linda 'Moonshade' Wilde' . 2nd ] " Drum Solo " Starring Zoe Grisedale as the Perky-Percussionist 'Amelia 'Scab' Farnsworth !
Four rules...just four rules.
If you have a thing for so-bad-they're-good horror/suspense/thrillers from the '80s and '90s, do I have the one for you... especially if you find movies about psychopaths and stalkers to be particularly entertaining.
Elderly long-term residents at the lodging house run by Mrs Cooper, who tries to rule with an iron fist, are happy to stay until a newcomer who is very free with her money leaves and returns at odd hours while never breaking the NO MEN rule. With several minor continuity errors, and late responses to cues, this early Boulting film maintains tension, and audiences can empathise even now with one or two characters portrayed.
Talia Shire whines her way through this extremely routine psycho-thriller, playing the role of Melanie Leroy. Melanie is a mousy middle-aged woman who catches her husband in the act of cheating on her.
After killing her cheating husband, Melanie (Talia Shire) moves into an apartment building she inherited from her aunt. There she meets one of the tenants (Jack Coleman) and decides he's the perfect man to become her new husband.
