A country boy moves to an LA apartment complex where a satanic cult is performing ritualistic killings.A country boy moves to an LA apartment complex where a satanic cult is performing ritualistic killings.A country boy moves to an LA apartment complex where a satanic cult is performing ritualistic killings.
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- TriviaProducer Glenn Kral said they originally shot test footage in 1989 to use for fund raising efforts, including Lisa Toothman running around in a bikini. But nothing happened, so it sat on a shelf for three years. A distributor friend was going to Cannes and asked if Kral had any trailers. So he edited one from the Dwelling footage. It ended up doing about $450,000 in pre-sales, which they used to produce the feature film in 1992 with Michelle Bauer replacing Toothman.
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Buxom scream dream, Michelle Bauer and a spectacularly sleazy, Burt Ward star in, Jeffrey Lynn Ward's entertaining skid row Satanic schlocker 'The Dwelling'. Amiable country rube, Andy (Donny Valenti) enrols into college, and rents a skeevey-looking L. A apartment managed by titanic tool, Crasmire (Burt Ward), his growing sense of estrangement sweetened by some meet-cute shenanigans with his bodacious neighbour Pam (Michelle Bauer). Andy is disturbed by sinister scuttling from the ostensibly vacant above him which fatefully foreshadows his crude capture by the cowl-wearing cultist creeps in apartment 33! Low on shocks, high on yucks, 'The Dwelling' features some sleazily distracting T & A, plentiful smoke-slathered cornball deviltry, and, as always, Michelle Bauer delivers another pristine performance far brighter than this gleefully grubby film deserves!
There's an endearing, Ray Dennis Steckler/Al Adamson quality to this low rent Luciferian lunacy that tweaked all my B-Movie buttons the right way! By all rights this should be a flushable, odoriferously unpalatable turd-cake, and, yet, 'The Dwelling' inadvertently provides some next-level bad movie jocularity! The heroically unfiltered hamming by, Burt Ward as the irascible, devil worshipping landlord, Crasmire is a masterclass of pantomime absurdity! Michelle Bauer fans should get an unholy kick out of her toothsome, Top-Popping,sinfully salacious, manhood masticating, scenery chewing succubus! Pentagrams, cockroaches, switchblade hookers, white bread Satanic cops, Nunchuck gangs, and douchey jocks, hey! It's just another f'd up night in Hollyweird!
There's an endearing, Ray Dennis Steckler/Al Adamson quality to this low rent Luciferian lunacy that tweaked all my B-Movie buttons the right way! By all rights this should be a flushable, odoriferously unpalatable turd-cake, and, yet, 'The Dwelling' inadvertently provides some next-level bad movie jocularity! The heroically unfiltered hamming by, Burt Ward as the irascible, devil worshipping landlord, Crasmire is a masterclass of pantomime absurdity! Michelle Bauer fans should get an unholy kick out of her toothsome, Top-Popping,sinfully salacious, manhood masticating, scenery chewing succubus! Pentagrams, cockroaches, switchblade hookers, white bread Satanic cops, Nunchuck gangs, and douchey jocks, hey! It's just another f'd up night in Hollyweird!
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