History Main / ApartmentComplexOfHorrors

* ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'' takes place in a dystopian sci fi version, among other things there's a killer AI loose in the building network, the main character has brain implants that cause nightmarish hallucinations, the residents are either disturbing, have hobbies that involve misusing technology in illegal, disturbing ways or both, with the one relative to the story is a [[spoiler: SerialKiller who used cybernetic and genetic manipulation to turn himself into essentially [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent a sci fi werewolf,]] ]] and the local birds may or may not be surveillance drones for the [[MegaCorp Chiron Corporation.]]

->'''Rosemary:''' Awful things happen in ''every'' apartment house.
->'''Hutch:''' This house happens to have a high incidence of unpleasant happenings.

* ''Film/{{Quarantine}}'' has an entire apartment complex fall to a mutated strain of rabies that effectively causes a zombie outbreak. They also get [[TitleDrop quarantined]] in the apartment building in the middle of the city and [[spoiler:all left to die.]]

* ''Film/EvilDeadRise'': Ellie, the StrugglingSingleMother, lives in a pretty dark and dingy apartment building with her kids, which it turns out has actually been condemned and is scheduled for demolition in a month. It gets even worse when Danny discovers the Book of the Dead and unleashes it upon the apartment residents by mistake. Seemingly all of the remaining inhabitants of the apartment building are gruesomely possessed and/or killed, especially as they're already trapped inside by the earthquake that destroyed the staircase and rendered the elevator inoperable.

* ''Film/{{Shivers}}'' has an entire apartment complex succumb to a sexually transmitted parasite that causes the infected to become permanently aroused fiends who will attack anyone sexually, regardless of age or orientation.

It has a lot in common with the HellHotel, except [[Music/HotelCalifornia you can never leave.]]

* In ''[[Literature/FourteenPeterClines 14]]'', the Kavach Building certainly leans this way. Architecture that seems non-Euclidean, infested by shiny green cockroaches that all have an extra leg, a very carefully locked room that, after the tenants figure out how to open it [[spoiler:opens directly into DEEP SPACE,]] and more fun surprises. In the end, it subverts the trope, sort of, [[spoiler:as it turns out to be the only thing preventing a horrendous race of Great Old Ones from coming to Earth and eating almost all living things.]]

* ''Film/BeauIsAfraid'': As part of the CrapsackWorld, Beau lives in a crappy apartment building where he's repeatedly accused of LoudOfWar, which causes his neighbor to bang on his wall and keep him awake. He then oversleeps, nearly misses his flight, and goes outside with his luggage, where he's met by a guy who screams at him that "you're fucked". It gets stolen from the hallway, he can't find his key, so he has to leave it open, and when he goes outside, a lot of homeless people flood his apartment and take it over.

* ''VideoGame/MyHouse'': Features a parallel universe commonly called the "Brutalist House". It's a version of the titular House that is inexplicably made entirely out of bland concrete, baren of furniture and amenities and surrounded by a super structure with windows into apartment dwellings. There's also a giant version of this location where a giant HellHound of sorts can fought or ignored.

In the old days, ghosts were limited to a HauntedHouse. But, as urban living became more prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries, the apartment building became more of a normalized place to live. But they've also been plagued by problems.

'''2. The Supernatural''': The apartment building will usually have a boatload of mundane issues, but tops it all off by being a literal {{Hellgate}} or some other supernatural WretchedHive. Apartment buildings in general tend to have shorter leases than houses, causing people to move in and out in the middle of the night. If poverty prohibits you from moving, you're stuck in a confined space with a form of supernatural horror. There's also a correlation between the idea of the apartment building as a place for many people and multiple families, and it also housing...other things.

->'''Rosemary''': Awful things happen in ''every'' apartment house.
->'''Hutch''': This house happens to have a high incidence of unpleasant happenings.

In the old days, ghosts were limited to a HauntedHouse. But, as urban living became more prominent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the apartment building became more of a normalized place to live. But they've also been plagued by problems.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* [[https://safebooru.donmai.us/pools/15717 Raccoon-San Mansion]] is a Anime/KemonoFriends doujin set in an anomalous apartment complex ("mansion" is closer in meaning to "condominium" in Japanese) that wouldn't look out of place in the Website/SCPFoundation. Various unnamed characters die horrible deaths or suffer even worse fates, while some continuously explore the condo and manage to leave warnings to others, and some characters are completely oblivious to the horror.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

[[folder: Film - Animated]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'': Coraline's family moves to a boring, run-down place known as The Pink Palace Apartments (actually a house), with neighbours that look creepy, but the true source of horrors is a small door in her apartment. During the day it has only a brick wall behind it, but in her dreams it takes to another world with idealized versions of her parents and neighbours that only want to make her happy. It is a trap: the other world is governed by the creature Coraline calls the Other Mother, who lures children into consenting her to replace their eyes with buttons, so she'll eat them. One of her victims was the twin sister of the now old owner of the apartments.

[[folder: Film - Live-Action]]

* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'': Cabrini Green is a decrepit housing project where gangs run amok and terrify residents, as well as being the site of Candyman's torture and death and where he prefers to hole up in between killing people. In the sequel/requel, ''Film/Candyman2021'', although now much less decrepit, the all-white gentrified apartments of Cabrini Green still bear the hallmarks of Candyman's presence, and it eventually returns to ensnare Anthony thirty years later.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Dana Barrett and Louis Tully's apartment building is revealed to have been built by Gozer cultist Ivo Shandor, who designed the building specifically for rituals to bring about the end of the world. This causes the hauntings in Dana's apartment, and turns out to be the central reason for ''all'' of the hauntings in the first film, with the climax taking place on the building's roof.
--> '''Ray:''' ''(to Venkman)'' Your girlfriend lives in the corner penthouse of spook central.

* ''Film/{{REC}}'': The apartment building falls prey to a ZombieVirus outbreak which causes its inhabitants to become violent killers, and it gets quarantined with everyone altogether (sick and healthy alike). The top apartment belongs to a [[spoiler:possibly possessed]] Patient Zero.

[[folder: Literature]]

[[folder: Video Games]]

* ''Film/EvilDeadRise'': Ellie, the StrugglingSingleMother, lives in a pretty dark and dingy apartment building with her kids. It gets even worse when Bridget discovers the Book of the Dead and unleashes it upon the apartment residents by mistake. Seemingly all of the inhabitants of the apartment building are gruesomely possessed and/or killed, especially as they're already trapped inside by the earthquake.

-->''Film/RosemarysBaby''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just a regular day in an apartment building.]]