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***SPOILERS BLOCK***
Rob Hanisey is an unpublished young author, broke, down on his luck, and dumped by his girlfriend. He gets a rare opportunity to take a room at a place called Highberger House, a sort of boarding house for unpublished authors. This is a cool idea, the coolest in the story...once a resident is published, they have to move out and move on. The other residents of the place include a Southern romance writer, a grumpy old pulp horror/sci-fi author (played well by Christopher Lloyd), and another younger writer.
Rob settles in to a previous tenant's room (who killed himself), and tries to write, but is interrupted when he discovers a beautiful ghost (Clare Grant) who is in distress. The other tenants act like Rob is crazy and tell him to shut up, but it turns out...you guessed it...there is a dark secret! The fair maiden Valerie and her demonic tormentor (Tony Todd basically playing himself) are the product of a collaboration between the three other tenants, a story so vivid that it has taken flesh within Highberger House. Todd begins killing these writers, and it's up to Rob to save the day and get the girl!
As you can see, the story is quite weak...and what's worse, it ends with a pretty ham-fisted
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Verdict: Indifference [5/10]
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