Condemned

November. 13,2015      
Rating:
3.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building's residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.

Johnny Messner as  Gault
Michael DeMello as  Murphy
Lydia Hearst as  Tess
Jordan Gelber as  Big Foot
Tuffy Questell as  Alejandro
Anthony Chisholm as  Shynola
Perry Yung as  Cookie
Michael Drayer as  Marin
Ronen Rubinstein as  Dante

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Reviews

Tuchergson
2015/11/13

Truly the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater

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Bereamic
2015/11/14

Awesome Movie

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Glimmerubro
2015/11/15

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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KnotStronger
2015/11/16

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

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Michael Ledo
2015/11/17

Maya (Dylan Penn) leaves her unhappy white bread suburban home to live with Dante (Ronen Rubinstein) a long distant boyfriend in NYC. To her dismay, Maya finds out her new home is a condemned apartment building which contain an odd assortment of characters. The drains all seem to run to an open basement, which includes chemicals used for making drugs. Residents have large puss sores that grow and cause hallucinations, turning the building into a cage match of mutants.The characters on the surface are odd and interesting enough, expect for maybe Maya, the main character. In spite of all the excitement and blood, and special effects, I felt board by a plot we have seen under various situations. Supermodel Lydia Hearst, the great-granddaughter of publishing scion William Randolph Hearst plays a junkie.Guide: F-bomb. brief sex. brief butt nudity (Genevieve Hudson-Price).

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happy undertaker
2015/11/18

I believe that Roger Ebert had it right. Evaluate the movie based on how well they made it fit the genre. As such, this one is okay. You need to see more than REC or Quarantine as progenitors. This one involved some New York type filmmakers/actors. They did a very good job on sets, costumes, lighting,etc. I don't look for total character coherence in a flick in which everyone is going mad. Even, before they went mad, they were marginally mad or disturbed to begin with. The movie was pretty well made for a low budget effort. The only thing that looked fake was some of the CGI blood spatter and one projectile vomiting scene. You can also see Johnny Messner playing against type. I didn't realize it was him until I realized that he had almost the same hairdo that he wore in Tears of the Sun.There were also a bunch of faces that look familiar but whose names always escape you.This movie did not remind me of REC or Quarantine, as much as some say. They were also derivative. Yes, there were many similar elements that appeared in those films and Condemned.But if anything, this story was absolutely most like a New York based film that predated those two. If you liked Condemned then see Mulberry Street (2006), a film with very close themes and development. This connection jumped to mind after the first few minutes or so of watching Condemned. The writer/star of Mulberry St. is Nick Damici who has a small cameo in Condemned. So see Mulberry St. and if you liked that then watch Stakeland, Damici's take on vampires. In it you will see scenes, sets, and situations that although not wholly original, look like they might be one of the proximate inspirations for The Walking Dead.

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hulakan
2015/11/19

This is a very well shot horror comedy with a nice sense of the absurd. The cinematography is far above average. The story is standard zombie pap, but delivered with an atmosphere that catches a certain fancy, rewards attention to detail, and reminded me of "Rec" (the original Spanish version 2007,) and Dan O'Bannon's "The Return of the Living Dead " (1985.)I didn't realize, until I checked out the IMDb page after watching the movie, that the lead girl was Sean Penn's daughter. She was pretty impressive... attractive in a tough sort of way... kind of ugly-cute like her father. She most certainly grasped my attention and delivered a compelling performance.This is not a bad film.(Of course, it's not a great film,) But it is well worth a watch. It has a definite grounded attitude, sense of the absurd, and a cool, (but admittedly gross,) visual style. It well deserves at least double the 3.5 rating in its IDMB main page.

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gemreviews2
2015/11/20

Johnny Messner killed it. And that's the best thing i can say about the movie. I guess this movie is a vehicle for Sean Penn's daughter, Dylan Penn.Shes a blond with a huge rack. And thats the second best thing i can say about the movie.Dylan plays a spoiled brat from the suburbs that has had enough of her parents domestic arguments.So she takes the train to NY to meet her loser boyfriend who squats with 3 friends in a condemned building that is occupied by 2 junkies, a Chinese meth cook. Johnny Messner (sexualy humiliating a gimp bodybuilder) a crazy black guy, a Jewish pimp and his black transsexual call girl/boy.All of these people get exposed to some bad drugs and begin to get sick and from there everybody loses their minds and begin attacking each other

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