After viewing this film into about the middle of the picture, I began to think it was a comedy and found it quite funny. Then, all of a sudden, things started to get crazy and Rob Lowe(Walter Woods),"Austin Powers in Goldmember",'02, wakes up with a young lady in bed with him who is very much dead. James Belushi ,(Harrison/Oliver)," Return to Me",2000, visits Walter Woods apartment and all hell breaks loose. It was very difficult for me to consider this a thriller after having laughed so much during the first half of the film! Everyone will see this picture in a different WAY!
Add a Review
-
whpratt112 January 2004
-
mickthemuppet26 January 2012What started out as a kind of who done it with Walter(Rob Lowe) getting a driver sacked for road rage eventually turns into pure farce. It never explained how his drawings ever got wet at the start. How would he not know the girl was murdered in the bed next to him, after all they only had one bottle of wine between them. With the killer exposed at the end what part did the ex-driver play in all this. Who put the rats in the apartment. Who broke the glass in the car door and if was innocent what was he doing in the apartment block towards the end of the film.The Apartment manager(Dean Stockwell) said he knew all the comings and goings of everyone in the apartments. He missed an awful lot of people
-
bkoganbing23 December 2018Rob Lowe starts Living In Peril after a road rage incident with big rig driver Tony Longo and he arrives in Los Angeles and takes an apartment where he will be for an extended stay. Lowe is an architect who is in LA for a job designing and building a new house for Jim Belushi. He's leaving behind in Seattle wife Dan Nicholson-Wheeler who is expecting.
Once he moves in everything in Lowe's life turns to crap. Appliances don't work, a herd of rats moves in all getting apartment manager Dean Stockwell mad at Lowe. Stockwell acts like someone with a broomstick perpetually up the rectal cavity.
Worst of all is high trade sex worker Alex Meneses winding up dead in his apartment. Someone has one bad vendetta against Lowe.
Rob Lowe now way past his Brat Pack days got a chance to reunite with his About Last Night co-star Jim Belushi. The dynamic of their characters is quite a bit different than from that better film. Some praise here has to go to Patrik Ersgaard playing Lowe's quirky German neighbor.
Lowe is a much better actor than was given credit in his salad days as a Brat Packer first class. But you couldn't tell with this thriller which dragged in spots and didn't thrill so much. -
Poor Walter Woods (Rob Lowe) is having a horrible few days. He's almost run off the road by a truck driver. his hole in the wall apartment room has rats, his millionaire employer doesn't like his architect proposals, and there's a dead hooker in his bed among other things. Yup, Walter has seen better days, that's for sure. One of the writers, Patrik Ersgard, felt the need to act in the film as well and his character is pretty unbearable. But I guess he does fit in with the rest of the characters here, as the film practically reeks of awfulness. With the only tolerable one in the whole movie being Dean Stockwell, a man who should be above this kind of garbage.
My Grade: D-
Where I saw it: Showtime Extreme -
nogodnomasters28 September 2018Walter Woods (Rob Lowe) is a Seattle architect and newlywed with an expecting wife (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson). He travels to Hollywood to design a home for an exacting man named Harrison (Jim Belushi). He stays in a furnished apartment that appears to be from the Twilight Zone as strange things happen to him while he is there. His two neighbors and manager are likewise quirky.
This was an interesting film as you try to figure out what was going on with Walter Woods. It is now part of a DVD horror 10-pack.
Guide: F-word. sexual situation. No nudity. -
Jemmy9 January 1999This is basically a movie about Rob Lowe being terrified of fictional rats that he believes crawl out of his toilet at night and urinate on his blueprints. I'm not kidding. Add to this an ex-East German with no brains whatsoever, an expensive prostitute, James Belushi (no less annoying than he was in About Last Night, also with Rob Lowe) and Al from Quantum Leap and you have the entire untalented cast. Okay, so one has to admit that they had _nothing_ with which to work, I'll agree to that. However, one also has to admit that if they read the script before agreeing to do the movie, then they're all _really_ desperate for money. Even Bull from Night Court shows up to sell Rob Lowe a gun. The only worthwhile thing about this movie occurs in the first five minutes when someone uses a two liter of Coca-Cola as a deadly weapon. I approved of that. The rest of the movie is boring, and utterly peril-less, not perilous.
-
kapelusznik1829 June 2016***SPOILERS*** Even before he got there to L.A things went wrong for young Seattle architect Walter Woods, Rob Lowe, in having been almost run off the road by an enraged truck driver-Tony Longo-for mot going fast enough in a 70MPH lane. Reporting Longo to his employer later has the well over 300 pound brute come to visit Walter to get him to change his mind so he can get his job back. There's also the man who's hiring Walter to build his "Shining Mansion on the Hill" Mr. Harrison, James Belushi, who never seems to be pleased with Walter's work yet still puts up with him for reasons we and Walter later find out have nothing at all to do with his skills as an architect!
Things get even worse for Walter at the rooming house that he stays in with his next door neighbor Catherine Langtry, Alex Meneses, making a play for him and later ending up murdered with him ending up the #1 suspect in her murder! If things weren't bad enough for Walter his apartment is infested with cat size rats that soil his blueprints for Harrison's house and his the house manager William, Dean Stockwell, threaten to throw him and his blueprints out on the street!
***SPOILERS***It's after someone-wearing a leather zip mask- breaks into Walter's room and fractures his big toe that he finally calls the police blaming the truck driver-Mr. Longo-that he earlier reported in a a fender vendor accident as the culprit without a stitch of evidence for the incident that the real reason behind Walter's problems finally come to the surface. Which go back to Seattle in what has to do with Walter's wife Linda's, Dana Wheeler-Nicolson, life before she met and married him. Effective thriller that has Walter fight for his life broken toe and all and when it looked like curtains for him he suddenly ties all the loose ends together along with the crazed killer who was out to murder him! -
guilfisher-127 April 2006Well, let me say, I didn't know what to expect. I thought, well, Rob Lowe's in it so it can't be that bad. WRONG! Even his presence didn't save this loser. Sad to say the story line was inevitable and the conclusion not a surprise. I won't bore you with the details as I was bored with this film. Was this comedy? Camp? For real? Certainly it couldn't be taken seriously. Written by Patrik and Jasper Ersgard and directed by Jasper Ersgard, I found the film too dark in color and visibility, in some cases losing what was on the screen. You had to strain your eyes to watch this and strain your intelligence to believe it. As to the cast - Rob Lowe was terrible. Most of the film he's walking into one trap after another as blind as a bat. As an architect, he sure was missing some marbles. The scene when the slut comes after him was just downright horrible. How could he not know she was hot to trot on him. And how come he just didn't tell her to get lost? She was so obvious. He should have shut the door in her face. But then I guess we wouldn't have any more movie, would we? Rob, you can do better than this. James Belushi, another actor I respect, did bring some level of reality to his role and even made his character fun. I was rooting for him. Distinguished Dean Stockwell, whom I've liked since ANCHORS AWEIGH days as a child actor was wasted in this and gave his best. It's just great to watch him work, even in clinkers like this. Who can forget his better works like BOY WITH GREEN HAIR, GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT, GREEN YEARS, SONS AND LOVERS, COMPULSION and LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. What a body of work that was. And to see him do this - it's embarrassing. Then there's Dana Wheeler Nicholson in a lack luster performance looking older than Rob as his wife. And let's not forget Alex Meneses in about the worst performance of the year as the slut. So obvious and not that attractive, she was laughable the way she climbed all over our hero. And poor Rob kept saying no as he fondled her and pleaded. Please! Special mention to my friend Richard Partlow as the detective and also one of the Foley Artists. Way to go, Rick! 3 stars for Belushi, Partlow and Stockwell.
-
fredrikgunerius28 August 2023Architect Rob Lowe is Living in Peril when he travels to Los Angeles to present his drawings to wealthy builder James Belushi. And after he rents a flat in grumpy Dean Stockwell's apartment building, he has to deal with these two eccentric gentlemen as well as a sexually aggressive neighbour, a happy-go-lucky German, and an angry truck driver who was recently fired by his employer after Lowe complained about his driving.
This obscure film by the Swedish Ersgård brothers is worth a look, if not because of the story in itself, then because of the film's eccentric, evocative tone. An important factor in this is the nostalgic musical score and set direction, which together create an almost Hitchcockesque mood. The Ersgård brothers obviously knew what they wanted, and the film is also suspenseful on its own quirky level. There are lots of characters, entanglements and situations, and although our protagonist's choices sometimes seem more driven by the plot than by common sense, the film's stylized nature allows it to get away with that. The Ersgård brothers made a few more movies in the years following this, before disappearing from the scene. -
vertigo_1421 December 2004"Living in Peril," is a low-budget thriller about an architect (Rob Lowe as wimpy "Walter Woods") who moves to Los Angeles and is terrorized by a psychopath whom he has yet to discover the identity of or the motive for. There is not much to the story, and the plot treads on sometimes routine scare tactics.
However, despite having almost no discernibly gripping, or even remotely entertaining plot, this started out as a pretty funny movie, thanks to the confrontations between Woods and his cynical landlord, William, played wonderfully by Dean Stockwell. William thinks Woods is an idiot every time he comes knocking on his door to complain about one thing or another, and its usually about some kind of rat infestation. Nonetheless, many of Woods' bizarre accusations and callings often baffle William, who is sometimes speechless. Woods once pounds on William's door and asks, "did you move my furniture around in my apartment?" and Stockwell, as William, does not even know what to say at such a moronic suggestion. "Who are you?" he replies with almost a homicidal twitch. Walter's German friend, an aspiring stand up comedian, but sometimes absent minded (although well-meaning) guy adds more humor to the story as does Walter's failed attempts at trying to please his employer, usually because something goes wrong in his apartment, thanks to a psychopathic stalker trying to drive him insane.
Then, kind of like the humor in "From the Hip" (an early Judd Nelson comedy/drama) which abruptly shifts into dark drama gear, this movie does the same, shedding its comedic atmosphere (which might have been just enough to contain you despite a weak plot) for the the "thriller" ending, which was a huge disappointment. The killer's motives, once he reveals them as most adversaries do by the end of the film, are completely ridiculous, and almost require a second take to remember who he is talking about in the first place. Unfortunately, the finale is utterly stupid.
I would only half recommend this film, as it starts out in a pretty hilarious fashion, but ultimately, once the filmmakers try to entice you with conflict and climax, fail miserably. -
This film was recently shown on Cable and the opening 5 minutes is terrific....the music is compelling...setting the scene for a person about to be trapped in a series of perilous incidents...... (anyone who has had one of those days when everything goes wrong can identity with this film!!!) I found at times there were elements of Hitchcock-like suspense with an excellent performance by the lead actor. There are superb performances by the actors playing the apartment manager, the wife, the prostitute and the performance by the german neighbour is compellingly good. I was absorbed by the whole movie with its first rate direction and script. It is a black comedy....comedy drama...and the only dissappointment is the actor playing the part of Harrison...who seems half-hearted throughout.......deduct 2 marks for that but its still an 8 out of 10. rbrb.
-
rjbradlow25 April 2016I do not know if this qualifies as a 'Spoiler' or not, so I ticked the box anyway.
This movie is part of a 12 Great Movie Collection on 3 DVDs in 1 box I bought from Walmart and it is NOT a movie that deserves to be in a 'Great' movie collection.
I couldn't even finish watching it. IMO this is Not even 'B' movie material in spite of the acting being better than the writing.
Walter Woods (Robe Lowe) has the most impossible worst luck EVER!
Everything that happens to him is extremely implausible. One thing after another in a string of unbelievable stupidity.
Yes people can find themselves in unfortunate circumstances but this guy and this film is just a constant train wreck of implausibility.
I cannot believe anyone could be as stupid as this guy, would put up with what he does, would find themselves in the situations that unfold or would handle these situations he encounters the way he does.
IMO this is one of the worst films I have ever tried to watch and Believe me I tried to give it a chance to recover but it just kept diving deeper and deeper into ludicrous.
There is just no way possible that anyone on earth could find themselves in the situations that unfold in succession for Walter in such short order or even a lifetime for that matter.
If it wasn't on the same disc with 2 other half-way decent movies and one really good movie I would toss it in the garbage.
The other 3 are: The Leading Man, The Dark Side of the Sun and Personal Effects... which was the best of the 4. -
joe-15226 August 2003I don't understand why is there so bad reviews. This movie thrilled me from begin to end. This is good written story, I usually suppose the end or the killer, but there was only in 50%. The civil acting of Rob Lowe is good, James Belushi played here an unusual role and funny is a part of Dean Stockwell as apartment manager. I think he enjoyed this part. Sometimes this movie is black comedy, but the end is quite brutal than previous parts of movie, I think it could be shorter (classic long final fight between bad/good boy).
-
This wasn't too bad a movie as Rob Lowe finds himself being tortured after an altercation in traffic. He moves to Los Angeles to take an architect job and strange things start to happen in his new apartment. There is decent suspense, characters (including an oddball tenant), performances, and a twist ending. You might like it if you are into suspense movies. It might satisfy you.
** 1/2 out of **** -
matahari196815 December 2001I thought that the movie was well done and very suspenseful. Rob Lowe did a very good job in this movie, there was never a dull moment in this film. It is filled with twists and turns that kept me rivotted to my seat. I did not lose interest for one minute.
-
MovieMaster028 January 2020I thought it was a very thrilling movie. The most people that don't enjoy those kind of movies are semi-blind and used to see only those 8.0+ mainstream movies. This isn't like that. This actually has a different vibe to it. If you truly are a thriller fan you will love it.
-
Darty12 January 1999It has Rob Lowe, which is good, but unfortunately the movie was just bad. There was a lot of random yelling, the acting was somewhat wooden in places and way to campy in others, and while you were apparently supposed to care about the peril Rob was in, you just didn't. As Rob so eloquently yelled somewhere in one of his paranoid tirades, 'Rat p*ss'. Yeah, that about sums it up.
-
Even though LIVING IN PERIL has got a remarkable **swedish** feeling over it it S*U*C*K*S BIG TIME!
It has got simularities to just-as-awful CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED like so many other movies throughout Hollywood's history.
1. Laughable horrors. Nobody ever thought that white headed children was frightening, nor rats.
2. Stupid script, aka IDIOT-POLICE and A SILLY BAD-GUY.
and the classic one
3. ACTORS THAT ARE FUN TO WATCH JUST BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUS!!!! Just take Rob Lowe and James Belushi! And I thought the mix with Christopher Reeve, Mark Hamill, and Kirstey Alley was fun!
Otherwise we have great actors like Dean Stockwell and Earl Boen getting awfully thrown away.
Allow be to bring out a 3/10