| 100 Feet | |
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| Directed by | Eric Red |
| Produced by | Sarah Black Ed Elbert Jonathan Sanger |
| Written by | Eric Red |
| Starring | Famke Janssen Bobby Cannavale Ed Westwick Michael Paré |
| Music by | John Frizzell |
| Cinematography | Ken Kelsch |
| Editing by | Anthony Redman |
| Distributed by | Voltage Pictures The Asylum[1] |
| Release date(s) | March 2, 2009[2] |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 (estimated)[3] |
100 Feet is a 2008 American horror film, written and directed by Eric Red. The film stars Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, and Michael Paré.
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The film begins with Marnie Watson (Famke Jannsen) being driven home in a police car. Shanks (Bobby Cannavale), the cop escorting her and the former partner of her husband who was also a cop, tells her not to get used to fresh air. They go into the hall, and Shanks tears off the police crime scene tape that had been left there. After they get inside, someone comes to fit her ankle bracelet, and they tell her she cannot move more than 100 feet (30 m) from the detector in the hallway. Shanks treats Marnie quite badly, telling her she will remain in the house until her sentence is up. He tells her to clean up some blood from the wall. Marnie argues with him, telling him that if the police had taken her crime reports seriously, her husband would still be alive today.
Later that day, Marnie takes all of her husband's pictures and belongings, and puts them in her basement, where the detector goes off. She then paints over the blood on the wall. She calls the power company about having her power restored, and they tell her they cannot make it until Monday, so she has to light some candles. Later that night, she is in bed and hears footsteps, but it turns out to be a cat.
She continues to hear the footsteps and goes downstairs, where she finds a homeless man and threatens to stab him if he does not leave. The next day, a delivery boy Joey (Ed Westwick) arrives to brings her shopping over. He tells her he lives in the same street and compliments her house. She tells him she needs him to come by regularly, and he says he will do it for the tips.
Later that night, she is going upstairs, when the ghost of her husband, Mike (Michael Pare) pushes her down the stairs. As she crawls to the front door, she sets the detector off. She stands up, and Mike lunges at her. Shanks arrives a short time later and finds her unconscious at the front door. She tells him she fell down the stairs. He asks her if someone is beating her and then chastises her for not cleaning up the blood stain, which has reappeared on the wall.
The next day, she cleans it up again and gets scared when the power company switches the power back on. She goes to make herself a cup of coffee when the cupboard starts to rattle, and plates fly across the room at her. She shouts at Mike that he had it coming, because he beat her for years.
Joey comes over the next day and tells her he knows what happened in her house. Marnie reads a book on exorcising spirits, and finds out that it is necessary to remove the dead person's belongings from the house. She collects Mike's things from the basement and he attacks her. Shanks appears and says he heard screaming. He tells her he will protect her but she tells him he cannot. He tells her he read Mike's files and saw what Mike did to her and apologizes for not doing anything at the time.
After Shanks leaves, Marnie drops her ring down the sink and reaches in to retrieve it. Mike grabs her hand and pulls it into the drain, but she manages to get her hand out. After some digging around, she finds a crawlspace under her bedroom floor that is filled with money. She invites a priest to her house and donates the money to the church. She asks him to bless her house but he tells her he cannot do it. After he leaves, Mike seals up the house and throws furniture at Marnie.
She escapes and phones Joey. He arrives at her house and she lets him in. They have sex while Mike watches them from the ceiling. Mike then appears and tortures Joey, breaking his bones and his neck; resulting in his death. Marnie hides his corpse in the crawlspace just as Shanks arrives, demanding to search the house.
Shanks searches the second floor but finds nothing. Marnie and Shanks go downstairs and she tells him to leave when Joey's corpse falls through the ceiling to the hallway. Shanks arrests her for Joey's murder just as Mike sends her flying across the room. Shanks notices this, and Mike attacks him too. He tells Mike to stay away from Marnie but Mike sets the house on fire and throws them both into the basement. Marnie takes off her ring and throws it at her ex-husband's ghost. The ghost catches it and goes through a transformation, disintegrating in a ball of fire. Marnie and Shanks get out, and Shanks tells her to escape, as a crowd of people begin gathering. Marnie is seen on a bus, while a passenger reads a USA Today paper whose headline proclaims she died in the fire saving Shanks' life. At least, that's what they think...
The film premiered on Syfy on April 26, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. The DVD was in limited release two days later, later being released nationwide on Oct. 06, 2009 through The Asylum.[1]
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