Wojcik dissects the complexity of the apartment plot itself and its ability to engage urban social issues related to apartment dwelling, such as issues of wealth and poverty that contribute the difference between tenants in the plot itself. Though the porousness of apartment dwelling takes away the secrecy that is often utilized in most horror films, the apartment plot can be seen in the 2013 local film Rigor Mortis, a horror film regarding public housing estates, necromancy, and supernatural elements that eventually turn out to be a figment of the protagonist’s imagination as rigor mortis sets in. The film explores the horror potential of public housing estates through the extension of the protagonist’s fantasies from what he sees through the doors and developing what he thinks he does not see. His encounters with his grassroots neighbours stem into a nercomantic fantasy in the plaintive derelict apartment.
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Well-structured and clear reflection on Wojcik’s commentary on the apartment complex – especially in reference to the film ‘Rigour Mortis’ which we will hear more from the costume designer Miggy Cheng!