A film that gives new meaning to the word pointless, Do Not Disturb is about a screenwriter (Stephen Geoffreys) living in a run-down motel.  He hasn’t written anything in two years and is haunted by the murder of his girlfriend.  When a crass producer comes by to demand that the writer get to work, the writer decides to kidnap the producer, bound him in a bathtub, and remove his body parts one-at-a-time.  This gives him the inspiration to write again, which makes his agent (Tiffany Shepis) happy even if she is not always happy about the method he’s using to regain his creativity.

This talky movie is about living in a crapsack world.  Everyone is greedy, unlikable, and depressed.  Stephen Geoffreys and Tiffany Shepis both give good performances, showing they have more talent than their films usually allowed them to show.  But the movie itself feels pointless, a slow-moving and meandering slog through a world that just isn’t that interesting.

Do  Not Disturb (which was originally titled New Terminal Hotel) got some attention in 2010 as the last film that Corey Haim completed before his own death at the age of 38.  Haim was dating Shepis at the time and was visiting her on set when he asked if there was any part that he could play in the movie.  A role was invented on the spot and Haim plays a jaded rock star that the screenwriter meets at a bar.  It’s an extended cameo and a pointless one at that, with Haim playing the role with an accent that I think was supposed to be Australian.

There is a twist at the end of the movie but it’s not worth the trouble that it takes to reach it.  Some people may want to see this film just because of the cast.  To many people, Stephen Geoffreys will always be Evil Ed and Corey Haim will always be Sam Emerson.  Those people will have more fun rewatching Fright Night and The Lost Boys than sitting through this movie.