While this movie is entertaining and it is a nice change of pace to see Rider Strong make it through a movie alive and unharmed there really weren't that many likable characters. The only likeable characters were Kieran and Trista even Kieran's initial girlfriend Erica was just irritating and Heath and the other guy were just annoying.
Review of The Penthouse 1967. Crocodiles Live in the Sewer!
The Penthouse is written and directed by Peter Collinson and is an adaptation from the play The Meter Man by Scott Forbes. It stars Suzy Kendall, Terence Morgan, Tony Beckley, Norman Rodway and Martine Beswick.
Nasty, gripping, home invasion flick, directed by Peter Collinson who was always able to tell a tight, no nonsense tale. Known, I suppose for The Italian Job, although I prefer his, Straight On Till Morning, he had a background in TV and broke out with this film.
I marveled at this film because it pulls off a quite complete double reverse in the traditional methodology of a Greek drama. There are some great soliloquies and the main characters carry on a bit like folks in a No Exit play by Sartre.
Based on the cover of the movie, I was expecting a comedy in the lines of your basic run of the mill teen-comedies, but this movie wasn't particularly funny.As for the story?
Why was this film ever made? I tried to find something of value in it - anything of any value - and came up empty-handed.
The basic premise of The Penthouse is that a young man loves a young woman and wants to be with her forever. Unfortunately he's a little nuts.
This movie wasn't bad. I liked Rider Strong in it, though his scenes were all emo.
