Rosemary’s Baby’s Baby, then? Not exactly. Kirill Sokolov, the Russian director and co-writer making his Hollywood debut, has clearly drawn inspiration from Roman Polanski and Ira Levin’s 1968 horror classic. But he seems less excited by its unsettling cultural and spiritual undercurrents than the floor-by-floor beat ’em up structure its high-rise setting affords.
As such, what his own film lacks in creepiness, it makes up for in gruesomely cartoonish violence, with Beetz smacking and chopping her way through an inexhaustible supply of occult assailants. These include Patricia Arquette as the building’s long-serving head of housekeeping, and Heather Graham and Harry Potter’s Tom Felton as prominent residents – though in keeping with Sokolov’s subtext-free approach, the characterisations in this latter group are disappointingly thin; “they’re rich” is about all we get.