Condemned

Condemned (2015)

Death is the only escape

Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building's residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.

Date of release
2015-11-13
TMDB
3.5 / 10 (57)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Horror
Director
Eli Morgan Gesner

Casting

Interesting facts

Condemned is a 2015 American horror comedy film written and directed by Eli Morgan Gesner. It stars Dylan Penn as a rich youth who moves in with her musician boyfriend at a condemned building populated by drug addicts, prostitutes, and shut-ins. After their water supply is tainted, the inhabitants become violently psychotic and attack each other. It premiered at Screamfest in October, had a limited theatrical release on November 13, 2015, and was released on VOD and DVD on January 5, 2016. It is the theatrical debut of both Gesner and Penn.

Production

The initial concept for the film dates back to 2006, when Gesner was working on an unrelated independent film. During a lull in production, he wrote the basic script for Condemned, then optioned it several times throughout the years. Gesner, a New York native, wanted to set his film in New York but had trouble finding a believable way to isolate his characters and make them difficult for authorities to rescue.

In June 2020, the film's costume designer Stacy Berman told The Daily Beast that actor Johnny Messner had exposed himself to her during a costume fitting. Berman and Jack Heller went to the film's lead-producer Dallas Sonnier in an attempt to get Messner fired, to which Sonnier refused to do. Sonnier had previously been accused of downplaying on-set abuses on VFW and Satanic Panic, both films produced by Sonnier's Cinestate.

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