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* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: The titular apartment building is for people recovering from various addictions and problems to stay while they better their lives. The main rule is that anyone who falls back into their vice is evicted. [[spoiler: Eviction turns out to be a DeadlyEuphemism, as tenants who fall off the wagon are ejected from their rooms into the apartment's CreepyBasement to be tortured to death by Jed, one of the sons of Eleanore Mudgett, the landlady, who happens to be descended from a SerialKiller who used the apartment as a front to lure in his victims.]]
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: H.H. Holmes, [[spoiler:aka, Herman Webster Mudgett, Eleanore's ancestor]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes was a real person]].
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''Havenhurst'' is a [[HorrorFilms Horror Film]] by Andrew C. Erin.

Jackie is a recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who's recently moved into a large Gothic apartment building on Havenhurst avenue in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The building is run by an old woman named Eleanore Mudgett with the help of her son, Ezra. She notes that, during her stay, Jackie needs to stay completely sober. If she falls off the wagon, she will be evicted.

Of course, Jackie also has another reason to be staying there. Her friend Danielle was a tenant there until she disappeared under mysterious circumstances. So of course, Jackie wants to find out what happened to her. While there, Jackie makes a friend in a teenage girl named Sarah, who's staying there with her foster parents Tammy and Wayne.

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''Havenhurst'' is a [[HorrorFilms Horror Film]] by Andrew C. Erin.

Erin and starring Creator/JulieBenz and Creator/DanielleHarris.

Jackie (Benz) is a recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who's recently moved into a large Gothic apartment building on Havenhurst avenue in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The building is run by an old woman named Eleanore Mudgett (Fionnula Flanagan) with the help of her son, Ezra.Ezra (Matt Lasky). She notes that, during her stay, Jackie needs to stay completely sober. If she falls off the wagon, she will be evicted.

Of course, Jackie also has another reason to be staying there. Her friend Danielle (Harris) was a tenant there until she disappeared under mysterious circumstances. So of course, Jackie wants to find out what happened to her. While there, Jackie makes a friend in a teenage girl named Sarah, Sarah (Belle Shouse), who's staying there with her foster parents Tammy (Dendrie Taylor) and Wayne.
Wayne (Creator/TobyHuss).

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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler:Eleanore and her kids [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment for murdering their tenants]], [[TheHeroDies succeed in killing Jackie]], and bring Sarah into their family so she can continue their legacy of murdering tenants who fall off the wagon.]]

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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Eleanore and her kids [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment for murdering their tenants]], [[TheHeroDies succeed in killing Jackie]], and bring Sarah into their family so she can continue their legacy of murdering tenants who fall off the wagon.]]



* [[spoiler:ItRunsInTheFamily]]: [[spoiler:Elinore inherited her penchant for murder from her ancestor, Herman Webster Mudgett.]]

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* [[spoiler:ItRunsInTheFamily]]: ItRunsInTheFamily: [[spoiler:Elinore inherited her penchant for murder from her ancestor, Herman Webster Mudgett.]]
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* TrapDoor: Plenty throughout the building. They're used to drop "[[DeadlyEuphemism evicted]]" tenants into the TortureCellar.
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* AirVentPassageway: Jackie and Sarah try to get out of the building through an air vent. They make it to the end, [[spoiler:but only Sarah gets out, as Jackie gets dragged back into the building by Jed]].


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* FriendOnTheForce: Jackie is friends with a police detective named Tim Crawford.


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* TortureCellar: The tenants who fall back into their problems get dropped into the torture chamber in the apartment basement, where Jed murders them.
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* BigBad: Eleanore Mudgett, the landlord of the apartment building.


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* SecretRoom: Jackie and Sarah find one in the laundry room. The room is full of documents and newspaper articles [[spoiler:revealing that the building used to belong to Herman Webster Mudgett, who used it as a front to [[LuredIntoATrap lure in his victims]].]]
* SecretPath: The building is full of them. This explains why the rooms of the building seem smaller than they reasonably ought to be.

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* [[spoiler:ItRunsInTheFamily]]: [[spoiler:Elinore inherited her penchant for murder from her ancestor, Herman Webster Mudgett.]]



* [[spoiler:RunsInTheFamily]]: [[spoiler:Elinore inherited her penchant for murder from her ancestor, Herman Webster Mudgett.]]
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: H.H. Holmes, [[spoiler:aka, Herman Webster Mudgett, Eleanore's ancestor]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes was a real person]].


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* EvilOldFolks: Eleanore Mudgett, [[spoiler:descendant of Herman Webster Mudgett, the SerialKiller]].


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* [[spoiler:RunsInTheFamily]]: [[spoiler:Elinore inherited her penchant for murder from her ancestor, Herman Webster Mudgett.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: This is what awaits any tenant who gets dropped into the basement.


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* OneWordTitle: Of course this trope is in effect, what with the film being called "Havenhurst".
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''Havenhurst'' is a [[HorrorMovies Horror Film]] by Andrew C. Erin.

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''Havenhurst'' is a HorrorFilm by Andrew C. Erin.

Jackie is a recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who's recently moved into a large {{Gothic}} apartment building on Havenhurst avenue in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The building is run by an old woman named Eleanore Mudgett with the help of her son, Ezra. She notes that, during her stay, Jackie needs to stay completely sober. If she falls off the wagon, she will be evicted.

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''Havenhurst'' is a HorrorFilm [[HorrorMovie Horror Film]] by Andrew C. Erin.

Jackie is a recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who's recently moved into a large {{Gothic}} Gothic apartment building on Havenhurst avenue in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The building is run by an old woman named Eleanore Mudgett with the help of her son, Ezra. She notes that, during her stay, Jackie needs to stay completely sober. If she falls off the wagon, she will be evicted.



* DisproportionateRetribution: The building on Havenhurst is where people can stay to try and give up the vices that lead them there. However, fall off the wagon once, and you'll be [[DeadlyEuphamism evicted]].

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The building on Havenhurst is where people can stay to try and give up the vices that lead them there. However, fall off the wagon once, and you'll be [[DeadlyEuphamism [[DeadlyEuphemism evicted]].
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''Havenhurst'' is a HorrorFilm by Andrew C. Erin.

Jackie is a recovering [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] who's recently moved into a large {{Gothic}} apartment building on Havenhurst avenue in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The building is run by an old woman named Eleanore Mudgett with the help of her son, Ezra. She notes that, during her stay, Jackie needs to stay completely sober. If she falls off the wagon, she will be evicted.

Of course, Jackie also has another reason to be staying there. Her friend Danielle was a tenant there until she disappeared under mysterious circumstances. So of course, Jackie wants to find out what happened to her. While there, Jackie makes a friend in a teenage girl named Sarah, who's staying there with her foster parents Tammy and Wayne.

During her time there, Jackie finds some photos of the interior of the building that show the same places, but they have noticeable differences about them. She also discovers a piece of paper that Danielle had been writing on that shows something is up with the building.

The film was released at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14th, 2016.

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!!''Havenhurst'' contains examples of:
* DisproportionateRetribution: The building on Havenhurst is where people can stay to try and give up the vices that lead them there. However, fall off the wagon once, and you'll be [[DeadlyEuphamism evicted]].
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler:Eleanore and her kids [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment for murdering their tenants]], [[TheHeroDies succeed in killing Jackie]], and bring Sarah into their family so she can continue their legacy of murdering tenants who fall off the wagon.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: After being dropped into the basement through a trap door, Tammy finds Wayne on an operating table, the lower half of his body being cut off, a large cut going from the wound to his chest, and his entrails hanging out of the hole.
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