100 Feet

100 Feet
Directed by	Eric Red
Written by	Eric Red
Produced by	Sarah Black Ed Elbert Jonathan Sanger
Starring	Famke Janssen Bobby Cannavale Ed Westwick Michael Paré
Cinematography	Ken Kelsch
Edited by	Anthony Redman
Music by	John Frizzell
Distributed by	Voltage Pictures The Asylum
Release date	March 2, 2009
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10,000,000 (estimated)

100 Feet is a 2008 American horror film, written and directed by Eric Red. The film stars Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, and Michael Paré.

Plot

The film begins with Marnie Watson (Famke Jannsen) being driven home in a police car. Shanks (Bobby Cannavale), the cop escorting her and the former partner of Marnie's husband who was also a cop, tells her not to get used to fresh air. When they enter the hall, Shanks tears off the police crime scene tape that had been left there. After they get inside, someone comes to fit her ankle bracelet. The cop tells her she cannot move more than 100 feet (30 m) from the detector in the hallway. He also tells Marnie that if the alarm sounds for more than three minutes, the police will be notified by an automated alarm. Shanks informs Marnie that if she attempts to remove her tag or transgresses the boundaries, she will be imprisoned for ten years. He tells her to clean up some blood from the wall. Marnie argues with him, telling him that if the police had taken her crime reports and hospital trips seriously, her husband would still be alive today.

Later that day, Marnie places all of her husband's pictures and belongings in a suitcase and puts them in her basement. Although her ankle bracelet goes off, Marnie is not alarmed as the duration is less than three minutes. She then paints over the blood on the wall. When she calls the power company about having her power restored, they inform her they cannot make it until Monday, so she reads by candlelight and speaks on the telephone to one of her friends who is still incarcerated. Later that night, she is in bed and hears footsteps, but it turns out to be a cat.

She continues to hear the footsteps and goes downstairs, where she finds a homeless man and threatens to stab him if he does not leave. He tells her that he entered the premise through the basement window. The next day, a delivery boy Joey (Ed Westwick) arrives to deliver her groceries. He tells her he lives on the same street and that the market is located not very far from her house. She tells him she needs him to come by on a regular basis.

Later that night, when Marnie is in bed, her husband's face suddenly appears directly before hers. Frightened, she leaps up and flees from her room when the ghost of her husband, Mike (Michael Pare) pushes her down the stairs. As she crawls to the front door, she sets the detector off. She stands up, and Mike lunges at her. Shanks arrives a short time later and finds her unconscious at the front door. She tells him she fell down the stairs. He asks her if someone is beating her and then chastises her for not cleaning up the blood stain, which has reappeared on the wall.

The next day, she cleans the bloodstain up again and becomes scared when the power company switches the power back on. She then makes a joke to herself about suffering from caffeine withdrawal. She makes herself a cup of coffee and the cupboard starts to rattle. When plates fly across the room at her, she ducks on the floor for cover. She shouts at Mike that he had it coming, because he beat her for years.

Joey comes over the next day and discovers why Marnie wears a tag. She breaks down in tears when she tells him that her husband used to beat her. The beatings commenced when Mikey joined the police force. When she filed a complaint, Mikey got his police 'buddies' to investigate the matters. This was why no one knew that Marnie was a battered woman. Joey tells Marnie that he wants to be her friend and gives her his landline number as well as his cell phone number. Marnie then asks him to get books on ghosts from the library.

Marnie reads a book on exorcising spirits and discovers that it is necessary to remove all of the dead person's belongings from the house. She collects Mike's things from the basement, keeping in mind her three minute time limit. She becomes horrified when the lights go off, she finds herself surrounded by darkness and he attacks her. Shanks appears and says he heard screaming. He tells her he will protect her but she tells him he cannot. Shanks is convinced that Marnie might not have killed her husband and is now being assaulted by the real perpetrator. Shanks tells Marnie he read Mike's files and saw what Mikey did to her and apologizes for not doing anything at the time.

After Shanks leaves, Marnie drops her ring down the sink and reaches in to retrieve it. Mike grabs her hand and pulls it into the drain, but she manages to get her hand out. As his ghost is still present, she realises that there must be something of his which is still in her house. After some digging around, she finds a crawlspace under her bedroom floor. She ventures into the crawlspace and discovers a bag that is filled with money. She invites a priest to her house and donates the money to the church. She asks him to bless her house but he tells her he cannot do it. After he leaves, Mike seals up the house and throws furniture at Marnie.

She escapes and phones Joey. She tells him that it is not necessary for him to see her in person. Joey, however, arrives at Marnie's house and after much pleading on Joey's part, she lets him in. They have sex while Mike watches them from the ceiling. During their sexual encounter, Joey does not see the ghost. Marnie smiles tauntingly at Mike's ghost while she and Joey have sex. In the morning, Mike appears and tortures Joey. The more blood which becomes splattered on Mike's ghost, the more visible Mike becomes. Mike brutally breaks Joey's bones and throws him repeatedly against a wall. He also hurls Marnie across the room. When Joey is killed, Marnie is distraught and does not know what to do. Shanks arrives a few minutes later, demanding to search the house for Joey as a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Shanks searches the second floor but finds nothing. Marnie and Shanks go downstairs. As Marnie is telling Shanks to leave, the ceiling keeps creaking. Joey's bloodied corpse falls through the ceiling to the hallway. Shanks arrests her for Joey's murder. Marnie then shouts: You win, Mike! Mike then sends Marnie flying across the room. Shanks notices this and Mike attacks him too. He tells Mike to stay away from Marnie. He also endeavours to appease the ghost by reminding Mike that they used to be partners.

Mike sets the house on fire and throws them both into the basement. Marnie tries to get Shanks to wake up. She then manages to remove her handcuffs as well as her ankle tag. Marnie manages to open a window and escape. She then expresses concern for Shanks who is still in the basement. Marnie climbs through the window into the burning building and rescues Shanks. Unfortunately for Marnie, Mikey's ghost pulls her back through the window. The two struggle and then Marnie removes her ring and throws it at her ex-husband's ghost. The ghost catches it and goes through a transformation, disintegrating in a ball of fire.

Marnie and Shanks both escape. Marnie even manages to rescue the cat, which she finds in close proximity to the house. Shanks tells her to escape, as a crowd of people begin gathering. Marnie is seen on a bus, while a passenger reads a USA Today paper whereby the headline proclaims she died in the fire saving Shanks' life.

Cast

• Famke Janssen as Marnie Watson
• Bobby Cannavale as Lou Shanks
• Ed Westwick as Joey
• Michael Paré as Mike Watson
• Patricia Charbonneau as Frances
• Kevin Geer as Father Pritchet

US TV version and DVD release

The film premiered on Syfy on April 26, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. The DVD was in limited release two days later, later being released nationwide on Oct. 06, 2009 through The Asylum.

External links

• 100 Feet at IMDb
• 100 Feet at AllMovie
• 100 Feet at The Asylum