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I thought this movie was going to be another bad PG-13 horror movie with bad shitty acting and plotting. However, it turned out to be one of the better new age horror movies I’ve seen lately. While certainly not perfect, there are some really good concepts involved in this story and some truly creepy moments here and there.
John Cusack is a writer who writes about famous haunted hotels and motels. While he’s not a true believer of the ghosts or even the afterlife, he still writes about it. He discovers a hotel room in
I really like the character arc Cusack’s character goes through in the movie. He starts out as a man that doesn’t believe in anything because of the death of his daughter, but through this horrible ordeal he finds out there is an afterlife. Cusack’s never goes over the top with his performance. Samuel L. Jackson is a total badass in this movie and has one of the best lines in the movie. He has to cuss, because he’s one bad motherf’er.
I like this movie mainly because it doesn’t fall into the clichés that all these torture horror movies have done recently. It has a plot and some style to it that many horror movies have forgotten to do. I liked how it mixes the normal monster scares with the personal scary moments dealing with this guy’s history.
While I’m no Steven King fan, this is one of his better movies. There are some problems with some of the ‘Stages’ that he goes through, and it might get a little boring for some because he spends most of his time in one room by himself, talking to himself.
Not great, but entertaining and enjoyable to watch. Think of it as a throwback to the horror movies where style and fright was more important than guts and torture. That’s one mean f’ing room.
Grade B-
Note: This is based off the Steven King short story of the same name. Silent Hill 4: The Room is highly influenced by this short story. You will find many similarities to Silent Hill in this movie too and vice versa.
This scene is Not in the movie...
Sam Jackson: “I’m a tired of all these snakes in that motherF’ing room.”John: "Do you realize we've both been in movies where someone hijacks a plane?"
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2 comments:
i just watched it a few days ago.
the actual movie wasnt too scary, and i felt it was a bit unorganized. it kept jumping from one thing to another unconnected thing, and somehow i wished everything would get tied together at the end, or some sort of explaination would have been given
the idea is freaky though, the fact of you going somewhere and not being able to leave. a few good scenes to make you jump.
and at least its not another gorey blood fest like all the others.
im sure the book was better than the movie in this case however. i do like cusak, and any movie with samuel jackson always has the "mean" factor.
its an evil f'kin room.
classic samuel. gotta love him.
Yeah, your correct about the disjointed storyline it was a little uneven too. The ending felt like it was thrown in at the last second.
The cocept behind not getting out of a evil room sounds very cool. I felt they should have done more with ghosts and the people that died in the room.
lol, yeah that's the line!
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