| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Reasonable horror movie spoiled by weak characterization and rather tired special effects.
This movie concerns itself with the classic writer’s problem of being trapped inside his own head and not knowing how to escape the resulting solipsism. To make this work cinematically, the film alternates between first- and second-person narratives, but without being a telling evocation of either viewpoint.
The unresolved-grief basis to the story is not as well explored as it could have been, so we are left with the experience of entering a Room 101 - where our worst fears are exposed - but without the necessary catharsis. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was somewhat better than this, as was The Exorcist, regarding the loss-of-faith-in-God theme.
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