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APARTMENT 7A

What You Need To Know:

APARTMENT 7A is a supernatural horror movie on Paramount+. After breaking her ankle on stage, Terry, short for Theresa, fears her days of becoming a famous Broadway dancer are over. One day, a wealthy elderly couple befriends the young dancer and promises to pay her rent until her next big break. However, Terry soon experiences demonic visions. Will she be able to withstand this influence? The movie is based on the novel ROSEMARY’S BABY by Ira Levin.

APARTMENT 7A is a low-tier horror flick packaged with an abysmal worldview. Despite a few standout musical numbers and effective scary moments, the movie has subpar cinematography, flat characters, and dull pacing. Also, the movie features a satanic cult, two people getting possessed by demons, and a woman trying to abort her demonic baby. APARTMENT 7A does incorporate the Bible and the rosary. However, it heavily glorifies satanic worship and views suicide as a viable solution to a moral/spiritual problem. Ultimately, APARTMENT 7A offers an unsatisfying climax to an unsatisfying movie overall. Media-wise viewers will want to avoid this demonic disappointment of a movie.

Content:

CONTENT: (OOO, AbAbAb, PCPC, VVV, L, SS, AA, DD, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong occult, demonic, anti-Christian worldview with strong politically correct elements glorifies satanic iconography and abortion, the main character takes multiple painkillers for her post-surgery ankle pain, a woman sleeps with a Broadway casting director and becomes pregnant with a magic demon baby, the same woman tries to abort her fetus (the demons stop the procedure), the movie frames the lead female character’s struggle of giving up her career for motherhood as a “bad” thing, the villains are a secret cult of Satan worshippers, the bad guys perform black magic and other occult chants, multiple characters are possessed and tortured by invisible demons, characters are shown drunk and selfish, and the main character fails in defeating the satanic cult;

Foul Language:
Less than nine obscenities profanities, including “s” words and “OMG,” plus the lead female character vomits three times in the movie;

Violence:
Very strong horror violence throughout, a woman twists her ankle during a complex dance and is sent to the hospital, multiple women are shown in full-body demonic possession, an elderly woman tries to stab her neighbor in her apartment, a villain snips the ear of the protagonist (her ear bleeds), a man is stabbed in the gut, a demon baby interrupts an abortion procedure, and suicide is seen as a solution to a moral/spiritual dilemma;

Sex:
No depicted sex, but a woman is strapped to a BDSM altar during a hallucination, the same woman has arm bruises after a one night stand, the same woman learns she was impregnated with a literal demon child against her will, and the villains reveal they want to reincarnate the Devil as a human child;

Nudity:
No explicit nudity, but the lead character is shown in her underwear to inspect her pregnancy and demonic bruises, and the same woman wears Broadway costumes that emphasize her legs;

Alcohol Use:
Characters are shown to be heavy drinkers during and after parties;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
The elderly characters smoke cigars and the lead female character pays for aftermarket painkillers for her ankle pain; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
A Broadway director repeatedly forces the protagonist to perform a dance that caused her ankle injury, a woman tries to get an abortion (the demon baby uses his powers to scare the surgeon away), and a woman ignores her late rent payments.

More Detail:

APARTMENT 7A is a supernatural horror movie on Paramount+ based on Ira Levin’s novel ROSEMARY’S BABY. After fatally breaking her ankle on stage, Theresa “Terry” Gionoffrio (Julia Garner) fears her days of becoming a famous Broadway dancer are over. One day, a wealthy elderly couple befriends the young dancer and promises to pay her rent until her next break. However, Terry soon experiences demonic visions. Will she be able to withstand this influence?

Set in 1960’s New York City, Theresa “Terry” Gionoffrio is a young tap dancer looking to prove herself on the Broadway scene. During a live musical performance, Terry lands a complex dance the wrong way and ends up twisting her ankle. She’s rushed to the hospital and her foot is stitched back together. However, her collapse on stage permanently hurts her reputation within the Broadway community.

Months later, Terry struggles to pay her rent, has a limp walk and develops an addiction to painkillers. After stalking a director to his apartment building, Terry loses her balance and passes out on the street. Minnie and Roman Castevet, the wealthy residents of the Bramford apartment complex, rehabilitate Terry to health. The elderly couple invites Terry to live at Bramford if she cleans up her act. Terry agrees to the settlement and successfully snatches another audition.

As Terry’s self-confidence grows, she begins to experience visions of demons. She can’t remember the night she slept with a Broadway director. Moreover, she uncovers a series of disturbing secrets within the Bramford apartment complex.

Will she be able to achieve her ambition? Or has her deal with the elderly couple come back to haunt her?

In terms of entertainment value, APARTMENT 7A delivers on the horror scenes, but falters with the bland writing. For starters, the cinematography is uninventive and plays out more like an amateur Netflix drama. The color grading is dull, the characters are flatter than cardboard, and the pacing is a slog. The acting is good, especially with Julie Garner as the anxiety-riddled protagonist, but even decent actors can’t salvage such bland material, even though the movie is based on a sensational novel and movie from the 1960s.

APARTMENT 7A’s biggest strengths are the musical numbers and the horror scenes. At several points, Terry will suffer a hallucination, usually with herself and the cast performs elaborate stage numbers akin to the Broadway version of ALADDIN. These sequences are well staged, but only take up a small portion of the runtime. Another highlight are the “scary scenes,” where Terry’s life is in danger from either mortal or demonic enemies. The scenes are tense, well-shot, and are genuinely frightening, especially when people fall prey to demonic possession.

Of course, the movie’s biggest failing lies in its moral framework. APARTMENT 7A endorses a selfish, pro-satanic worldview. There are literal demons, a cult of Satan worshippers, and dancers who engage in heavy drinking and sleeping with directors. Terry tries to go to a Catholic Church to pray to God for help, but she doesn’t do a follow-up prayer. She receives a rosary and a Bible, but they do nothing else to ward off the demons. Terry, her friends and her foes only care about advancing their careers and not being ethical people.

Moreover, a central plot twist is Terry’s pregnancy with a demon baby. One night, she did a one night stand with a Broadway director. Terry schedules an abortion, but the demon scares off the doctor and ends the procedure. The movie also has a politically correct plot twist. For example, it frames Terry’s struggle of giving up her career for motherhood as a “bad” thing. At the end, the satanic cult traps Terry, telling her she must give birth to the next heir of Satan. In the only selfless act in the movie, Terry figures out a way to end her satanic nightmare, but her solution is also depressing. Also, the satanic cult continues their quest to reincarnate Satan with unsuspecting women. Essentially, evil remains unchecked, and the heroine learns nothing. Thus, APARTMENT 7A offers an unsatisfying climax to an equally unsatisfying movie overall.

APARTMENT 7A is a low-tier horror flick packaged with an abysmal worldview. Despite the few standout musical numbers, the movie has subpar cinematography and flat characters. It also has a satanic cult, two people getting possessed by demons and a woman trying to abort her demonic baby. APARTMENT 7A does incorporate the rosary and the Bible, but it heavily glorifies satanic worship. It also views suicide as a solution to a moral, spiritual problem. Media-wise viewers will want to avoid this demonic disappointment of a movie.


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