The Resident

The Resident is a 2011 British thriller film directed by Antti Jokinen and starring Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Swank stars as a recently single woman who rents an apartment in New York City and comes to suspect that someone is stalking her. The film also features a cameo from Hammer Films star Christopher Lee, in his first collaboration with the studio since 1976's To the Devil a Daughter and his last before his death in 2015. Plot Juliet Devereau, an emergency room physician, rents an apartment in New York City from Max. Juliet has recently filed for divorce from her husband Jack after she caught him having an affair, but she still has feelings for him. Unbeknownst to Juliet, someone is stalking her, observing her from across the street and apparently entering her apartment. At a party, Juliet bumps into Max and flirts with him. As they walk home, Jack follows them from across the street. Juliet impulsively and awkwardly kisses Max, but then retreats after realizing she shouldn't have done it. They later go on a date. A flashback reveals that Max is the one stalking Juliet. He has rebuilt her apartment to include secret passageways and a one-way mirror, which he can use to watch her. In another instance, Juliet and Max are in bed together and are about to have sex. However, Juliet feels guilty and asks Max to stop, admitting that she couldn't stop thinking about Jack. Eventually Juliet breaks off her romantic relationship with Max, saying that her kissing him and them almost having sex was a mistake and she was too caught up in her emotions to realize what she was doing because of her feelings for Jack. Max continues to observe Juliet and does strange activities in Juliet's apartment while she's at work (such as masturbating in her bathtub and brushing his teeth using Juliet's toothbrush). He also watches her and Jack have sex. Afterwards, he begins drugging Juliet's wine so he can be closer to her while she is unconscious. After oversleeping for the third time in two weeks, Juliet becomes suspicious that she may have been drugged and has security cameras installed in her room.