Uncle Spielberg
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I was not bothered about watching this but I am very glad I did. It is a very very good horror about a cynical man who has lost his daughter and lost his belief who investigates Haunted places. He admits he has never experienced anything supernatural. He hears about a room in a New York hotel where no one has come out alive. 22 people have commited suicide whilst in the room which rises to 56 when natural deaths are taken into account.
He books the room and insists on staying the night despite the hotel manager pleading him to reconsider. He enters dismissive and cynical.
At first things are fine but within 20 minutes he is banging on the door in terror to let him out. He is trapped and the next hour undergoes horror after horror of the mind as the room tries to break his spirit and get him to kill himself. You see the demons in the room cannot actually kill him they have to drive him to suicide. As the hour ends and you think he has got through it the clock starts the run down from an hour again. It would presumably do this time and time again until the occupant had killed itself.
It is a different, unique and quite superb film with Cussack and Samuel.L.Jackon on good form.
Highly recommended 8.1
I was not bothered about watching this but I am very glad I did. It is a very very good horror about a cynical man who has lost his daughter and lost his belief who investigates Haunted places. He admits he has never experienced anything supernatural. He hears about a room in a New York hotel where no one has come out alive. 22 people have commited suicide whilst in the room which rises to 56 when natural deaths are taken into account.
He books the room and insists on staying the night despite the hotel manager pleading him to reconsider. He enters dismissive and cynical.
At first things are fine but within 20 minutes he is banging on the door in terror to let him out. He is trapped and the next hour undergoes horror after horror of the mind as the room tries to break his spirit and get him to kill himself. You see the demons in the room cannot actually kill him they have to drive him to suicide. As the hour ends and you think he has got through it the clock starts the run down from an hour again. It would presumably do this time and time again until the occupant had killed itself.
It is a different, unique and quite superb film with Cussack and Samuel.L.Jackon on good form.
Highly recommended 8.1