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It may be Marnie Watson’s house, and she may have had a really good reason, but her dead husband is really pissed off that she’s back and he’s going to do someting about it.

After killing her husband, who just happened to be a NYC cop, Marnie (Famke Janssen) has been granted early release from prison with the stipulation that she spend the remainder of her sentence confined to her home with an electronic bracelet on her ankle.

The kicker is that the house is where Marnie killed her husband and her keeper is her late husband’s former partner. Shanks (Bobby Cannavale) is carrying quite a grudge against Marnie and is hellbent on making her six months as uncomfortable as possible. He spends a lot of time sitting outside her house watching andwaiting for her to slip up so he can send her back to prison.

But Marnie has things other than Shanks attention to worry about as peculiar things begin happening in her house. Before she realizes the very angry spirit of her husband is lingering in the house and determined that she is never going to get out alive. Family is no help to her so she turns to the only person who shows any concern or sympathy for her, the grocery delivery boy, Joey (Ed Westwick).

100 Feet is classified as a thriller. It has a few moments, but I’m not sure if they are as thrilling as they are gruesome. Michael Paré, who most people will remember from Eddie and the Cruisers, plays the wicked angry spirit hell-bent on destroying Marnie, and anyone else who gets in the way.

Famke Janssen spends a good amount of time in the movie angry over the injustice of her situation, but her portrayal of the murderess (even if it was self defense) never really hits home for me. Cannavale overplays his role as the angry Shanks and makes me wish he could just look good and not talk. Young viewers will appreciate Ed Westwick, who most recently found fame in his lead role on the hit television series Gossip Girl (based on the acclaimed YA novels by Cecily von Ziegesar.

100 Feet is just a movie. I wish I had learned more at the beginning of the movie so I had a better understanding of what the premise was and that I knew more by the time I got to the end of the film. I managed to watch the entire film in one sitting, but probably couldn’t be convinced to watch it again. There just wasn’t enough to make it good.

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