Girl on the Third Floor

Actually, unemployed ex-con Don (ex-wrestler Phil Brooks aka CM Punk) just wants to build a nice nest for himself and his pregnant wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn). In a suburb of Chicago, he busily works on an old Victorian house to renovate it while staying in touch with his wife, who remains in the city, via video call. It's supposed to be a fresh start, but the peaceful manual labor is disturbed by paranormal activity: the building seems to have a life of its own - slimy substances, rolling marbles and seductive apparitions in the form of a beautiful stranger give Don a hard time and increasingly lead him to the abyss of madness... Travis Steven's film comes up with some original ideas (and disgusting moments), while the atmosphere of the house becomes eerily dark and claustrophobic from the very beginning. The fact that Don's house was originally a brothel adds a new twist to the classic haunted house genre. “Excitingly staged haunted house horror that unfolds with psychological underpinnings as a portrait of a protagonist struggling with his own role as a man and uses the haunted house in a pleasurably ironic way as a manifestation of Freudian depths.” (Encyclopedia of International Film)