New Terminal Hotel (2010)

After his fiancee is brutally murdered, Don Malek sets out for revenge.

Director:

BC Fourteen (as BC Furtney)

Writers:

BC Fourteen (as BC Furtney), BC Fourteen (as BC Furtney)

Stars:

Stephen Geoffreys, Tiffany Shepis, Ezra Buzzington

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stephen Geoffreys	...	Don Malek
Tiffany Shepis	...	Ava Collins
Ezra Buzzington	...	Spitz
James Grabowski	...	Carter Ball
Robert DiDonato	...	Detective Dom Turkovich
Corey Haim	...	Jasper Crash
Laura Hofrichter	...	Katherin Dunlap (as Laura Leigh)
Anthony Colliano	...	Stanley Glissberg
Danielle Fortwangler	...	Hooker
BC Fourteen	...	Bartender (as BC Furtney)
Tara Sukustis	...	Rebecca
Wayne Kryka	...	Officer #1
Brian Derby	...	Officer #2
Rik Billock	...	Bum #1 (as Rick Billock)
Henry Tjernlund	...	Bum #2

Storyline

Don Malek's a tenant in a hotel of L.A.'s skid row. Grief-stricken since the murder of his fiancee Katherin, he's bent on revenge against Stanley Glissberg, the man cleared of charges in Katherin's death. Don can't forget - and Glissberg's going to pay..Add to the mix a relentless homicide detective, a nosy has-been rock star, and the tenants of the hotel are about to check into a vortex of revenge, madness and murder.

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Plot Keywords:

murder | hotel | suicide | blood | torture | 

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Taglines:

Vengeance has a home...

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Genres:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

When production wrapped in 2008, the owner of The George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh decided to leave the main location in the film intact in case the crew needed to return for reshoots. Two years later when a small fire broke out at the hotel, emergency workers stumbled onto a blood-splattered room littered with alcohol bottles and a human scalp, and concluded that it was a grisly crime scene. An eight hour investigation followed before authorities were finally convinced that it was merely a movie set.

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Quotes

Don Malek: I did to him exactly what he did to me! I'm tearing him apart piece by piece.

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Connections

References Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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Soundtracks

Nothin' to See Here (Killin' Time}
Written by John Dissed & BC Fourteen
Performed by Bull Lee

User Reviews

A pretty solid little b-movie

Don Maleck (Stephen Geoffreys) is a revered Hollywood screenwriter who hasn't hacked out a script in quite some time. When agent Ava Collins (Tiffany Shepis) approaches Don in his skid row apartment to demand his latest pages, she discovers he's been getting into the mindset of serial killers for his latest script by becoming one. Rather than ratting him out, Ava decides to use Don's new hobby to her advantage.

The reviews here on IMDb are a bit befuddling - it's certainly not the utter crapfest that most have made it out to be. The film is talky with a plodding pace (it sorta has the feel of a stage play), but if you're looking for brutality and gore, it occasionally delivers the goods. And as for the talk, there's a lot of fun, pithy dialogue. Tony Award nominee Geoffreys (in his first lead role since 1988's "976-EVIL") gives a great performance and infuses the character with his patented brand of pathos; and Shepis matches him beat-for-beat, making her sleazy character downright lovable. Across the board, the rest of the acting is decent as well -- the weakest link is an obviously strung-out Corey Haim in a minor role (sporting a hokey Australian accent)... and even he isn't too bad.

I saw "Do Not Disturb" since the original version, "New Terminal Hotel," was yanked from circulation when RLJ Entertainment issued it on DVD. I'd like to see the original because it feels like there's something major missing in the truncated version (according to amazon's defunct listing, "Terminal" ran an extra 12 minutes). It's not much of a spoiler to say that Don is initially motivated to kill to avenge his girlfriend's death (this is made clear in the first scene) but that plot point seems to suffer in the edited version.

No, it's not particularly groundbreaking, but the film is a solid entry in the low-budget indie revenge-horror genre - and if you like Geoffreys (who spent too many years on the outer fringes of Hollywood), I'd certainly recommend it.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 March 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Do Not Disturb

Filming Locations:

Washington, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bull Lee Films, Bull Lee Media, Ruthless Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min 99 min (original) 87 min (edited)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1