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Room For Rent Movie Review

Room For Rent Movie Review

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Few things are more terrifying than discovering an evil presence in the place where you lay your head down to sleep. Room For Rent, the suspenseful and unsettling film from director, Tommy Stovall brings the concept of a landlord from hell to the next level with a creeping dread that will have you squirming in your seat. Lin Shaye has appeared alongside notable horror icons in the original A Nightmare On Elm Street and the Insidious films, even playing a disgusting landlady in the 90’s bowling comedy, Kingpin. But in Room For Rent, Shaye inhabits a role that reveals a truly twisted mind in a real world setting, which will have renters looking over their shoulders and vacationers thinking twice about booking a room at a quaint Bed and Breakfast. I love horror movies, especially supernatural spook-fests with ghosts and monsters that can give you a blood-soaked laugh and a scream. What I tend to stay away from in my movie selections are psychological thrillers and suspense films that set

Room For Rent Receives Revamped Poster

Room For Rent Receives Revamped Poster

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Last November the news broke that Uncork’d Entertainment would be distributing Room For Rent, an upcoming thriller starring Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise, Ouija), sometime in 2019. We now have more details: the release window is May, and it is getting a theatrical run in addition to its digital premiere. This is the poster that we saw last November: Here is the revamped and vastly improved version, with a better tagline: You can tell what she’s holding now! The premise is Single White Female in reverse: Shaye plays an isolated widow who rents a room out in her house, and then becomes unhealthily obsessed with the renter. You can pick your roommates, but unfortunately not your landlord. Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room to make easy money.  She meets mysterious drifter Bob and takes him in as a long-term tenant.  She becomes obsessed with her much younger guest, making him the object of her deepest romantic fantasies.  When a friend’s betrayal derails Joyce’s fantasy world, she seizes control of her own destiny

Uncork’d Lands Room For Rent In 2019

Uncork’d Lands Room For Rent In 2019

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Ucork’d Entertainment has won distribution rights to Room For Rent, an upcoming thriller starring Lin Shaye (the Insidious franchise, Ouija). It’s penciled in for release sometime during the second quarter of 2019. We only have a basic description of the movie to work off of, but it sounds like Single White Female in reverse. Shaye is playing an isolated widow who rents a room out in her house, and then becomes unhealthily obsessed with the renter. “We’re very excited to be releasing Room for Rent in 2019,” says Keith Leopard, president of Uncork’d Entertainment. “I loved this movie and I think audiences will really enjoy this unique and spine-tingling thrill ride, which features a powerhouse performance by Lin Shaye, in what’s a very different role for her.” Room For Rent director Tommy Stovall adds, “We’re thrilled to be working with Uncork’d to get this film out there and can’t wait for people to see it.” Uncork’d also announced they will be releasing Chad Archibald’s The Heretics later this month, festival film Lifechanger in January 2019, and Darren Lynn Bousman’s St.