Plot sounds very similar to the plot of Wait Until Dark, a 1967 suspense film that starred Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Plot: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment. Trailer for Penthouse North did look pretty suspenseful. Hope they can pull it off.
shareI love wait until dark! Audrey did a great job and arkin was a fantastic villain. the plot does sound very similar but I like Michelle and am a big fan of Keaton so i'll give it a shot. especially since he plays bad guys so well.
the director ain't too shabby either
I love Wait Until Dark, too! Audrey Hepburn was awesome in it!
shareNo, because Wait Until Dark was good and this movie is rather bad
Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.
A lot of remakes ARE bad !
shareAs soon as you see the body for the first time, you are waiting for someone to say "Move on. Nothing to see here", no pun intended. And at the end of the film, you rather wish that you listened to the voice in your head.
shareIt's actually a slightly tweaked remake of this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251308/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_27
Nowhere in Sight, starring Helen Slater. Aside from one key twist, the movies are pretty much exactly the same.
I, too, thought about Wait Until Dark, but I will tell you one thing about Wait Until Dark ... it really had audiences jumping out of their chairs when it came out. I did not see this one in a theater but I'm not sure it would have done the same thing in a theater, although I really liked it better than WUD, which I recall as good but something of a cheap thrill not really worthy its star. But I guess it was a good outing for someone getting a little long in the teeth at the time and was definitely ahead of its time.
Memory tells me that the core difference between WUD and Penthouse North is that the first one focused on the heroine escaping from thugs, whereas the second one had more to do with a central mystery -- what and where was the thing the two guys bedeviling Sara were looking for? PH also brought up for me questions about Sara's part in the whole thing, which anyone might wish to speak to. I posted questions about that under the thread Unanswered Questions. :)
"it really had audiences jumping out of their chairs"
You nailed it. I saw WTD with a buddy our freshman year in college. At one point he spazzed and squealed like a girl. More fun than the movie...
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I saw Wait Until Dark when I was 11 years old. Scared the snot out of me, and the rest of my fellow 6th graders. Audrey Hepburn played the role perfectly.
Saw this last night. It lacked the suspense of the original and I think anyone watching knew that she was going to survive and get the better of the goons.
I'm just a middle-aged dirtbag baby, listening to Peter Frampton maybe.
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I thought that as well. I liked Wait Until Dark and I quite enjoyed this movie as well.
shareYou're right, there are many points of contact in the plot of both films. I think that by having seen in the the first place Wait until dark, I found it more frightening. But Michelle Monaghan have has nothing to envy to the divine Audrey!
shareNo. They stole the idea, but it's nothing like Wait Until Dark. This movie wasn't boring, but she wasn't as competent as the heroine in Wait Until Dark. She was also less innocent, obviously. I watched the whole thing, as I wasn't bored and was doing something else, but it wasn't really worth it.
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