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Doom Room
Nightmare Box / Doom Box
UK 2013
produced by Carl Kirshner, Jon Keeyes, Matthew Tompkins, Charles Burnley, David Diamond (executive), Maz Haines (executive), Chuck Armstrong (executive), Bryce Tillery (executive), Michelle Kalsi (executive), Susan Dickey MacArthur (executive), Blair Treisman Rosenfeld (executive), Joseph D. Lesley (executive), Bruce C. Findlay (executive), Richard T. Carey (executive), Brandon Baker (executive) for Highland Myst Entertainment, Wolfclan Productions, Silverstrand Films, RedCom Productions, Penkat Studio
directed by Jon Keeyes
starring Johanna Stanton, Nicholas Ball, Debbie Rochon, Matthew Tompkins, Hayden Tweedie, Katie Kensit, Sal Esen, Claire Jared, James Simmons, Scott Christie, Laura Whitehurst, Craig Bramley, Carl Kirshner
story by Jon Keeyes, screenplay by Jon Keeyes, Carl Kirshner, music by Todd Masten, songs by Moth Complex, special effects makeup by Dan Frye
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A woman (Johanna Stanton) finds herself in a gloomy room with no idea
how she got there or who she is even, but she's pretty sure she can't get
out. Soon all sorts of bizarre characters pop up pretty much out of
nowhere, like a sleazy couple (Debbie Rochon, Matthew Tompkins), a creepy
"man of God" (James Simmons) who accuses her of every evil under
the sun, even if she doesn't feel any guilt per se, a girl who's the
epitomy of innocence (Hayden Tweedie) to a point of self denial, another
girl with no eyes (Katie Kensit) who refuses to let reality in, and a man
(Nicholas Ball) who slowly tries to piece everything together and
convinces the woman that whatever she's going through is a mental journey
stemmed from her very own past rather than a physical one. But the more
our heroine learns, the more uncomfortable and downright frightening the
truth she has to face is getting ... Now while the premise of Doom
Room might sound quite a bit like Saw
and other movies of this ilk, its execution is definitely on the brainier
side of things, not going right for the guts but digging deep into the
sub- and unconscious, leaving the audience with a fascinating (and
disturbing) puzzle that only gradually begins to make sense. And this is
all thanks to a script that's only seemingly chaotic but in the end makes
perfect sense, a directorial effort that gives the narrative enough space
to breathe and helps to tell the story instead of drawing too much light
onto itself, and a cast that's really in on the story and its many layers
of reality. Maybe not for everyone, but a fascinating movie for those into
intelligent and off-mainstream horror for sure.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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