Condemned
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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Plot Summary
In this found-footage horror film, a group of friends venture into the favelas of Brazil to document the rampant crime and violence. Their exploration takes a terrifying turn when they become trapped in a dangerous tenement building where the residents are eerily aggressive and hostile. As they try to escape, they uncover a horrifying truth about the building and its inhabitants.
Critical Reception
Condemned received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and audiences alike. It was widely panned for its gratuitous violence, weak plot, poor acting, and unoriginality, failing to distinguish itself in the crowded found-footage horror genre.
What Reviewers Say
- Excessively violent and gratuitous, offering little beyond shock value.
- Lacks a coherent plot and relies heavily on cheap scares and gore.
- Unoriginal and derivative, failing to bring anything new to the found-footage subgenre.
Google audience: Audiences found the film to be excessively violent and disturbing, with many criticizing its lack of plot and character development. The film's relentless gore and bleakness were frequently cited as major detractors, leaving viewers with little enjoyment.
Fun Fact
Eli Roth, known for his roles in and direction of other horror films, also directed and starred in this movie, which was largely filmed in Spanish.
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