Will McKenzie

Tyler Czarnecki is the owner of an apartment building haunted by a pair of flesh-eating Babylonian demons who eat the tenants and treat Tyler as their slave. While he clearly resents his lot, Tyler limits his rebellion to grumbling to Rabisu, the lesser of the demons and, from all appearances, Tyler's only real friend. Tyler's sister Amy, a police officer, is indifferent to his plight - or at least too distracted by her shady dealings with the local gang of vampires to get involved. However, the status quo is upset when an attractive young woman named Donna moves into Tyler's building. While Donna is clearly on the run from something, Tyler takes a liking to her and decides to save her from becoming the demons' next meal.

It tough keeping tenants who stick around long enough to pay the rent when you're a nice guy like Tyler (Derek Dziak), who has to answer to two hungry demons (Mike Madgiak and Refugio Molina) who haunt the place -- and keep gobbling up his profits despite his lame attempts to sway them. As a landlord, he's out of his league. But then a likeable girl (Erin Myers) on the run shows up, looking for a safe place to live.

Hal Ashby makes his directorial debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as the wealthy but naïve Elgar Enders, who buys a Brooklyn tenement, plans to evict the African American tenants and renovate the building. But as he becomes more involved with the residents and especially the beautiful, multiracial Lanie, Enders starts to reconsider his goals. Lee Grant nabbed an Oscar nod for playing Enders's capricious mother.