The Resident (Antti Jokinen, 2011)

Hilary Swank stars as a doctor who moves into a new flat and slowly becomes aware of her landlord's unhinged infatuation with her. The scenes of him spying on her through numerous holes in walls are straight out of Psycho, except that nothing is left to the imagination as regards his identity or motives, and the camera lingers in a more seedily prurient way than we ever see him do until he totally loses the plot and comes clean as a standard rejected ogre. Then it's time for the formula slasher finale, which doesn't even manage tension. The director's background is in pop videos and that's clearly where he should have stayed.

3/10