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Room 203 of a certain apartment building has a dark history, as over
the decades it was the place of many brutal deaths and murders - but for
freshmen college students Kim (Francesca Xuereb) and Izzy (Victoria
Vinyarska) it's also heaven, it's roomy, it's fully furnished with
furniture so old-fashioned it's cool again, and the creepy stained glass
window in the living room adds atmosphere to the place. Plus there are no
neighbours, just the landlord (Scott Gremillion), so it's really
everything a young student could dream of. The one thing that's weird is a
hole in the wall of Kim's room that just refuses to be covered up - but
when Izzy reaches in, she pulls out a cool vintage necklace she then wears
on a regular basis, so not too bad a deal. Thing is, soon spooky things
happen in the apartment, and in the building as a whole, things that freak
out Kim while Izzy seems to be utterly unaware of them. Kim and a friend
from college (and soon-to-be boyfriend), Ian (Eric Wiegand), start
investigating, and it's not long before they uncover the dark history of
the place, and how the stained glass window might actually have to do with
a curse - a curse Izzy seems to already be under as it has to do with her
necklace. But knowing this and doing something about it are two very
different things since the curse seems to have already taken a course of
its own ... A very cool piece of slowburn haunted house type
horror that really has all the mystery and all the scares in all the right
places and that focuses on its genuine creepiness (also helped by its
really cool central location) to keep the audience at the edge of their
seats. And the very fact that it doesn't try too hard to explain things
away but favours atmosheric filmmaking instead only adds to the film's
welcome feel of unease, which is of course also helped by a very solid
small ensemble cast, making this a very fine piece of genre cinema.
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