GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR

US, 2019, 90 minutes, Colour.
Phil Brooks (C.M.Punk), Trieste Kelly Dunn, Sarah Brooks, Travis Delgado.
Directed by Travis Stevens.

Perhaps the point of including this film on this site is that it is a statement that this is a film that need not be seen.

The plot is rather laborious as it tries to be a horror film, an ex-convict going to redecorate a house that used to be a brothel (and seems to be haunted by past spirits), to make a new life for him and his pregnant wife. However, the house seems to have a mind of its own or is operated by the previous inhabitants and so continually hinders the rebuilding and redecoration.

Phil Brooks is a former wrestler (C.M.Punk), who had a successful career in the ring but does not transfer to an acting career very well at all. His very stilted. He is also covered in tattoos from his wrestling days. It is very difficult for audiences to identify with him, or even be interested in his character.

As might be expected, a girl from the past arrives to seduce him, other spirits from the past also appear – with the wife eventually turning up, encountering the women, encountering some of the previous customers, and finding her husband dead, killed off by the plot but somehow rather a ghostly surviving within the walls of the house.

There is also a character, a female minister of the local church who knows the secrets and discusses them with the builder and then with his wife. But, it looks as though they have to find out the truth by themselves.

Perhaps this description gives the film more attention than it deserves.