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He's (Eric Willis) is a guy as average as they come, with not a single
enemy in the world - simply because he's deemed to harmless to have one.
And yet, his neighbor (Scott Mitchell) wants him dead, is going out of his
way to enter our hero's apartment, and when that doesn't work sends
poisonous gas through the AC and kills him. And that should be the end,
right? Only it isn't as our hero awakes again not where he has just died
but where he had awoken earlier, and again it's the neighbor outside,
trying to get in, but not succeeding (yet?). This time, our hero is smart
enough to seal the AC off, but death can come in many forms - as can
resurrection, and thus he's to relive the same situation(s) again and
again, trying to apply in each new cycle what he has learned in the
previous ... Of course, the basic concept of this movie is
reminiscent of Groundhog Day's premise (and I'm sure, without
proof, the idea as such has been around a lot longer), but My Neighbor
Wants Me Dead manages to play up the horrific sides of being unable to
escape a situation one has desparately tried to avoid in the first place.
But that said, the movie doesn't just fall back on tried and true horror
tactics but manages to creat a cinematic language all of its own that
combines VHS aesthetics with silent movie filmmaking (including
intertitles), all played to experimental yet fitting music to fill the
void of the lack of dialogue. Not your typical piece of horror, and at
times challenging to a mainstream audience, but fascinating above
everything else.
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