Directed By: Travis Stevens
Written By: Travis Stevens and Nathan Faudree
Cinematography: Ksusha Genenfeld
Editor: Zach Clark and Travis Stevens
Cast: Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr, Katie Kung, Lakshmi Hedemark, Tanya Everett, Marshall Taylor Thurman, Neal Mayer
A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She’s buying into his faux charms, and he’s eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?
This film has a very original trajectory, whereas the first half plays more traditional and linear where it surprises you and it feels a little more predictable as we have seen this before a kind of serial killer working his way on a current victim.
Then all of a sudden the film which already was leaning into more psychological and the psychedelic. Totally moves and gives itself up to that direction where we are now seeing the delusions and the reality of the situation that the serial killer has found himself in.
Where he is haunted by different ghosts, demons of past victims telling him what to do and also torturing him as he tries to find his latest victim and to see if she is truly alive or is she dead?
This is where the film also becomes more violent and a little grotesque, though it stays captivating as you wonder what’s real and what isn’t just like the lead character and wondering where this is going to go and what is the ultimate ending.
This isn’t a film one could call light, but it does try to offer something new and different and a bit more experimental in the genre that keeps you guessing, and usually you will be wrong as to where it might go or where it goes, which adds a little decadent fund to the whole endeavor.
This room isn’t gonna be for everyone so if you’re looking for the traditional horror film, this is probably not for you or even if you’re looking for a slash or film this is not going to be the film for it but if you like your horror a little out there and maybe a little thought-provoking and unsteady this might be the film for you
Grade: B-
