36 minutes. One apartment. Zero cockroaches until there absolutely are.
Caught between a potentially predatory neighbour and her own escalating paranoia, an isolated young woman slides along the razor’s edge of sanity as she imagines who or what might be watching her through the walls.
Acting
Townsend's unraveling is genuinely uncomfortable to witness.
Sound
The wall-scratching audio design deserves hazard pay.
Direction
Silverman makes 36 minutes feel like a slow suffocation.
Director
Stu Silverman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Silverman shot the entire film in his actual apartment building, using real residents as background extras who didn't know it was a horror movie.
Released during the 'elevated horror' short film boom, this directly riffs on Repulsion and The Tenant while TikTok's #creepyneighbor trend made paranoia content viral.
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