Product Description

JACKIE and MATT, a young loving couple, are looking for an affordable apartment in New York City. After much frustration, Matt meets a charming elderly couple who own a posh brownstone occupied by several other elderly couples. Surprisingly, they've got a vacant unit - which is spectacular and insanely cheap. For Jackie and Matt this seems too good to be true. Because it is. Strange things begin to happen. Jackie's having terrifying dreams. Mysterious screams are coming from the basement. The senior couples start to look weak and feeble, their health deteriorating. The only other young couple in the building disappears into thin air, after which, the seniors' health and vitality are suddenly restored. Jackie investigates and discovers that this is not the first young couple to have disappeared from the building. The elderly couple begins to pry into Jackie's life, manipulating Matt against Jackie, and wreaking havoc on her relationship. In the fight for her and Matt's life, Jackie discovers that those screams coming from the basement aren't stray animals...but young people being drained of their "glow."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81093 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-09-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 89 minutes

Customer Reviews

PORTIA IN PERIL
Portia de Rossi is the main reason to see THE GLOW. This radiant young actress (Arrested Development, Scream 2) dominates the standard plotting and mediocre direction, and infuses the movie with a sense of peril and urgency. She plays a young woman, whose fitness conscious husband (the ubiquitous Dean Cain) has been mugged and robbed in Central Park. Assistance is offered by a trio of elderly people brimming with uncommon energy and social etiquette. They take Cain home to call his wife, and when she arrives, lo and behold they have made them an offer on a beautiful apartment in the building they all live in. Most of the tenants are elderly, except for another young couple who later on mysteriously vacate the premises. This opens the plot to something unusual going on with these seemingly harmless seniors. Since the viewer has read the description on the box, we all know what's going on. Question is, can Ms. DeRossi convince anyone else?
DeRossi and Cain make a nice couple, although he seems sometimes a little wooden. The writers also don't point out why Cain's sexual drive has gone on vacation, but we can pretty much guess the "vitamins" and the "pink drink" have something to do with it. Cain also doesn't question how his wife is pregnant when he hasn't had sex with her for weeks. Why hasn't anyone else looked into the other missing couples? Conveniently, they were all "parentless children," but didn't they have friends and coworkers? Ah, what the heck...I have to admit that even with the gaps and stuff, I found myself involved and wanting the old fogies to get their just desserts. Portia is due credit for keeping me involved. And it was great seeing such veteran actors as Hal Linden, Dina Merrill, Grace Zabriskie and Joseph Campanella playing such evil characters.
For a Lifetime TV movie, it's not that bad, folks.

A True Masterpiece
What did I oike about this movie? it would be easier to say what I didn't like: nothing! The conflict might be popular, but that's because it's so attractive and creepy; it didn't diminish the quality of the story any less. I was on the edge of my seat, screaming at the screen, my heart beating like a flying bumblebee! The suspense to see who if anyone survived almost killed me! This is true horror that relies on the story and the characters to scare the audience rather than flashy special effects. A must see for... everyone, with a strong stomach for the scene when Jackie uncovers a truck full of bodies.

There's better things to watch.
The plot was OK, but I think there were some big plot holes: was the 'parentless kids' connection ever explained?, Why was the star made to beleive she was pregnant??? And she was easily able to kill that guy in the end.
Agrivating scene: the police let the people accused of murder take the accuser into the building against her will!!!!