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Just to get away from it all, Alice (Eaoifa Forward) joins Lizzy
(Rachel Warren) and Lizzy's boyfriend Carl (Dan Paton) on a trip to an
apartment from Lizzy's realtor father's portfolio for a bit of partying -
without him even knowing. But once there, they soon find themselves locked
in on the floor the flat's at, with the elevator no longer working, the
door to the stairway locked, and the balcony way too high to just climb
down. Now this is bad, especially because the three did bring only limited
provisions, and those go bad before their time, plus they have no mobile
reception, no landline, nobody knows they are there, and the whole
neighbourhood is actually shut down for the winter - which made the
apartment such an ideal party spot in the first place ... Tensions soon
arise as the trio is rather uneven, and especially Carl is too horny for
his own good while Alice is too buttoned up - which might have to do with
her being abused by her own father (Stuart Nurse). But there's something
else about Alice, she soon starts to have visions what might be behind
their imprisonment, visions that manifest in her nightmares but that
eventually seem more real than real life and that leave her screaming and
freaking out the others. And while our heroes are soon worn out by the
lack of food and drink (the water's soon shut off as well), there's a fate
much more horrific than just dying from hunger and thirst waiting for them
... The Snare is an enjoyably creepy movie that actually
manages to tell a palpable (and palpably horrific) basic story and leave
pretty much everything open to interpretation at the same time. All this
is thanks to a directorial effort that manages to find the eeriness in the
trivial without ever giving way to spectacle in the nightmare (?)
sequences and that loves to hint rather than lay everything out in the
open, a script that refuses to give clear answers and thus keeps the
audience in constant suspense, subtle yet clever effects makeup and of
course some very gripping performances. Totally worth a watch!
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