Synopsis
Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building's residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.
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Cast
- Johnny MessnerGault
- Michael DeMelloMurphy
- Lydia HearstTess
- Jordan GelberBig Foot
- Tuffy QuestellAlejandro
- Kevin Smith KirkwoodRoxy
- Anthony ChisholmShynola
- Genevieve Hudson-PriceAlexa
- Perry YungCookie
- Michael DrayerMarin
Recommendations
- 30
Los Angeles Times
Aggressively ugly and gross, the movie boasts a certain low-rent authenticity, but the auteur never figures out how to fill his grubby little rooms. - 20
Village Voice
So what do the tea leaves say? They're hard to read through the over-the-top grossness and weak acting, but it's probably that gentrification is good, poor people and assorted lowlifes don't deserve prime real estate, and Sean Penn's baby girl needs a better agent. - 20
Variety
Writer-director Eli Morgan Gesner (a clothing designer and skateboarder who previously helmed the skateboarding and hip-hop doc “Concrete Jungle”) could have milked the premise for gleeful counterculture exploitation (like a 21st-century “Basket Case”) or campy John Waters-style gross-out comedy, but settles for mean-spirited banality. - 10
The Hollywood Reporter
One of the most egregiously awful horror films in recent memory.
