One of the best ways to get to the top of the weekend box office is to make a film people can connect with – after all, don’t we all know someone who’s been stabbed through the eye with a pencil by a green-haired sociopath?
Similarly, Lakeview Terrace has managed to become the number one movie at the US weekend box office by provoking a number of universal fears in its audience like, for instance, what if the sanctuary of your own home can never provide the shelter you assumed it would? What if you had the power to get help taken away from you? What if you moved in next door to Samuel L Jackson and he turned out to be a bit of a tool?
Those are just some of the questions that Lakeview Terrace poses, and that’s possibly why it’s doing so well at the weekend box office. Us? We’re just looking forward to the sequel where Samuel L Jackson thinks that playing Leona Lewis songs at full volume all day is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Because that’s quite annoying, actually.
