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100 Feet is a 2008 Horror Film directed by Eric Red and starring Famke Janssen (Marnie Watson), Bobby Cannavale (Lou Shanks), Ed Westwick (Joey) and Michael Pare (Mike Watson). It was produced by Syfy and distributed by The Asylum after its film release.

Janssen plays Marnie, a woman who has just been released from prison years after killing Mike, her police officer husband, in self-defense. She is returned to the house she shared with her husband, but is under house arrest, unable to get more than 100 feet away from the transmitter. Her neighbors won't talk to her and Shanks, her husband's former partner, harasses her and keeps her under surveillance. Worse, her husband's ghost hasn't left and he wants revenge.


This film contains examples of:

  • Ax-Crazy: Mike is utterly unhinged as a ghost.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Takes both sides of the coin. Marnie gets badly bruised throughout the film, but never suffers any broken bones despite being repeatedly struck hard enough to be thrown across the room.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Marnie is free of her husband's ghost and her husband's partner has reported her dead, so she is free to live a new life, but she is a fugitive from justice and is penniless.
  • Crime of Self-Defense: Marnie killed her husband in the heat of defending herself after he went after her with the knife. She has police reports indicating that she was a battered spouse. She was still sentenced to prison.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Mike brutally murders Joey by beating him to death, to the point where his jaw is popping off.
  • Dirty Cop: While trying to find all of the items that Mike had left behind that tethered his ghost to the physical plane, Marnie discovered a trash bag filled with stacks of $100 bills right in the crawlspace underneath the floorboards of her bedroom.
  • Domestic Abuse: Mike battered Marnie from the time they were married until his death. And beyond.
  • Entitled to Have You: Mike's ghost refuses to move on and continues to torment and torture his wife Marnie within their house since she cannot legally leave the premise. After having killed off Joey and Marnie being accused of murdering him and charged with arrest, Mike materialized to attack Shanks; his former friend and partner for trying to take her away.
  • Evil-Detecting Dog: The cat that took up residence in the apartment can apparently sense Mike before he manifests.
  • Haunted House: The protagonist is prevented from leaving by the electronic leash of her house arrest gear.
  • Implicit Prison: Marnie is unable to move more than 100 feet from the transmitter. Her front door is just barely out of reach of the range, as is her basement.
  • Killing in Self-Defense: Marnie only killed Mike when he came after her with a knife.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Mike's murder of Joey. He headbutts the guy so many times that he becomes visible from the mask of blood shed by his victim.
  • Revenge Before Reason:
  • Take Back Your Gift: How Marnie eventually stops Mike, by throwing her wedding band to him, symbolically ridding herself of her last tie to him.
  • Too Dumb to Live: A woman is being haunted by the vengeful ghost of her abusive husband. He's shown her that he can move anything in the house anytime he wants, so what does she do? She throws her wedding ring in the garbage disposal, then decides to fish it out with her hands. After narrowly avoiding losing her hand, she invites the neighbor boy over for some fun. In her defense, she thought she had rid herself of her husband.

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