We’ve run into a real string of bad movies lately, haven’t we? Not that I thought Parasomnia was going to be any different, and not that you haven’t come to expect bad movie write-ups from me, but when you hoe the low budget road, there’s usually some awesome surprises waiting for you. Besides, this one was written and directed by William Malone, the same dude who did House on Haunted Hill and Feardotcom (yeah, okay, also not great but at least these were legitimate theatrical releases and starred people like Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, and Stephen Dorff), so I suppose one could gleam a glimmer of horror hope from this one. But all hope was quickly dashed and there weren’t any surprises waiting for me. Only a mundane, low budget fantasy lost in a shitty dream world of love, blood, and madness.

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Every once in awhile (or maybe it’s more like all the time), the wife and I pull out a really bad movie and revel in its awesomeness. This time around it was The Landlady, a 1998 low-budget thriller starring Talia Shire (Adrian to you Rocky fans; Connie to you Godfather fans) as Melanie Leroy (or Dade), a psychotic landlady looking — and killing — for love. Now, to be honest, I didn’t think Talia was ever in anything else but the Rocky and Godfather movies, yet here she is stalking and terrorizing tenants in an LA apartment building. I think it’s safe to say that she was fed up with being a wife (boxer’s, mobster’s, or whatever) because it only takes a few minutes in this movie for her to kill her cheating husband, become a landlady, and set her evil sights on a dream life with the perfect man.

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