Freehold | An amoral estate agent gets his comeuppance in odd home invasion thriller

Freehold Mim Shaikh
(Image credit: © 2017 Two Pigeons Productions)

 

A perverse revenge.

A venal estate agent gets an appropriately nasty comeuppance in the dark comedy Freehold (aka Two Pigeons), the unwitting victim of a secret interloper who is hiding out in his flat and wreaking a perverse revenge – spitting in his mouthwash, rinsing his cutlery in the loo and planting gay porn on his girlfriend’s laptop, among other furtive torments.

Yet as heartening as the downfall of Mim Shaikh’s vile character undoubtedly is, many viewers will find his fate offputtingly gross and far too drawn out for the film’s good. Still, director Dominic Bridges makes crafty use of his film’s single set, while double-jointed Spanish actor Javier Botet (a sinisterly skeletal presence in the [REC] films, Mama and Crimson Peak) contorts his body to striking effect as the flat’s uninvited guest.

Certificate 15. Runtime 76 mins. Director Dominic Bridges

Available on DVD & Digital from Signature Entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmkkf8uv3g

Jason Best

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.