“Hazenhurst” (** out of four) was a routine horror show about a recovering alcoholic (Julie Benz) who is released after completing an inpatient program and takes up residence in a gothic-style apartment building in which strange occurrences and even stranger tenants inhabit and she tries to maintain her sobriety and sanity and break out. Benz is solid as usual but this derivative thriller owes too much to “Poltergeist” and “The Shining” and is in too conventional a framework to carry much charge. Danielle Harris has a key cameo at the beginning and Fionnula Flanagan is creepy as the building landlord.

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