The Duplex: Mike Ezuruonye, Omoni Oboli scamper in house of horror 

* movie in a Cinema near you as from March 6

By Igalaman 

Popular actress Omoni Oboli and leading male actor Mike Ezurounye may have featured in loads of movies but they have never spared as man and wife in any movie. But together, they play man and wife in this gripping modern day horror about Emeka (Mike Ezuruonye), who is on the edge of life, as he battles, not only to save his wife Adaku (played by Omoni Oboli) and their unborn baby, but also his investment of N120million. He does this inadvertently, on a cemetery, glorified in a posh duplex – but too late, the resident ghost is already on rampage.

Distributed by FilmOne, a sister company to Filmhouse Cinemas, The Duplex, which hits cinemas across Nigeria on March 6, is a piteous, tense experience by a young couple in their journey to start a life. Ezuruonye and Oboli, display an infectious chemistry in this there first movie as a couple in a Nollywood movie ever. And the film, pegged on the lesson of greed, plays up the contrast between a contented wife and a more adventurous husband, with sub plots of the sometimes woman’s financial possessiveness and the man’s notable ego and secretiveness in the family.

In The Duplex, Chukwuma Omezioke took ill shortly before the Nigeria/Biafra war and died. His wife and only son left Lagos for their hometown, trusting the property with the deceased best friend, Mr. Balogun. But they were never to return to it because the caretaker had personalized the house documents. Omezioke’s ghost will not take the cheating lying low, as it turns a serial killer, on the trail of buyers of his stolen home. The cheap Lagos detach property, in a serene environment, kick started a turbulent journey toward the living relations of the real owner to prevent more torment, torture, spiritual attacks, madness and deaths. Indeed, The Duplex holds that ‘there’s more to a cheap property than fraudulent intent.’

Laced with some comic relief, viewers, according to Isikaku, are soon to see that ‘though a woman is amusingly freaked under a spiritual attack, perhaps a man's reaction to the same situation is more laughable.’ Produced by Emmanuel and Stella Isikaku and directed by Ikechukwu Onyeka, other cast of the movie include Uru Eke (Dora); Anthony Monjaro (Jones); Ayo Umoh (Akpan) and Maureen Okpoko, who played the bald-headed lady psychic. The movie is fresh from the stable of Videofield International Limited Production and it was screen played by Stanley Isokoh.