A woman under house arrest for killing her abusive husband in self-defense finds that the walls meant to confine her hide something far more dangerous than a monitoring bracelet. Eric Red's 100 Feet turns a legal sentence into a haunted-house nightmare.
What is 100 Feet about?
Marnie Watson has already survived one nightmare by the time the film opens: years married to a violent police officer. When she kills him defending herself, the court's mercy is house arrest rather than prison, tracked by an ankle bracelet that will not let her step past the edge of her own property. The house itself becomes the trap. Doors lock on their own, water rises where it shouldn't, and objects move as though someone unseen resents having her back inside these walls. As the disturbances escalate from unsettling to violent, Marnie has to work out whether she is losing her grip on reality or whether the anger that defined her marriage has simply found a new way to reach her, one room at a time, with no way to leave the property to escape it.
About the cast
Famke Janssen carries the film as Marnie, playing the exhaustion and wariness of someone who has already lived through one ordeal only to be handed another. Bobby Cannavale and Ed Westwick round out the supporting cast, with Michael Pare and Patricia Charbonneau also appearing.
Context & significance
Released in 2008, 100 Feet sits in a run of haunted-house thrillers that used a domestic setting to blur the line between psychological and supernatural horror. Writer-director Eric Red, better known for genre scripts through the 1980s and 90s, builds the film almost entirely around a single house and a single central performance, keeping the scope tight and the tension close to the ground rather than reaching for spectacle. That narrow focus is part of what gives the film its claustrophobic feel: there is nowhere for Marnie, or the audience, to look away to.
Watching 100 Feet on Ktime
100 Feet streams on K-Time with a free account login, part of a Persian-focused catalogue built for the Iranian diaspora. The site's Farsi interface makes it easy to browse genre horror like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue, no separate setup required.