“Darkness In Tenement 45” (*1/2 out of four) was an ambitious slog about a precocious 16-year old (Nicole Tompkins) who lives in a low-income apartment building with her overbearing aunt (Casey Kramer); soon the building is boarded up and the tenants are imprisoned due to a pending threat from the Soviet Union and the girl must fight to break free from her aunt, the world threat, and poverty in general. Writer director Nicole Groton heavy-handedly tries to graft various social and political points onto a tired horror framework; give her some points for trying but the results are stale, dull, and unconvincing.