“My Landlord Wants Me Dead” (*1/2 out of four) was a suspenseless suspense thriller about a young woman (Emily Rosslyn Villareal) who fails out of college and loses her job and gets a job with her aunt (Anzu Lawson) taking care of her house but finds that the landlord (Roy Abramsohn) is a nutjob creep who will stop at nothing to make sure she’s out for good. Utterly predictable and stupid thriller full of stilted and awful dialogue. With a title like that, you know not to expect Oscar fare but film doesn’t even provide much in the way of cheap thrills or scares. For a much richer and engrossing landlord/tenant psychodrama, evict this from your list and watch “Pacific Heights” instead.

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