The Black Room (2017)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Best movie ever!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Saw 'The Black Room', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching it.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree that 'The Black Room' isn't too good, though not terrible. A film that started off reasonably well, but ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Black Room' a fair chance.'The Black Room's' best assets were the first fifteen-twenty minutes, no matter how relevant or not it was to what was to follow it started the film off on a promising, unsettling and atmospheric note that really does intrigue. Production values did have some eeriness and nowhere near as cheap as expected, and the music, which not the most memorable in the world, didn't detract from the atmosphere. The setting is effectively spooky and the acting was better than average, with the lead average being quite good actually.However, so much brings 'The Black Room' down. The direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Would have liked more chemistry between the actors, which can be put down to directing, tending to have interactions that are both static and awkward, and writing, which really doesn't flow, issues.Where 'The Black Room' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace after the first fifteen minutes and never recovers, so the film is a pretty dull experience.'The Black Room' further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding, too many things that don't make sense or under-explained (the twist on the evil-in-the-basement trope is indeed neat but that's it) and tiresome repetition. The characters are nowhere near interesting enough, and the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down. In 'The Black Room', there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. It even includes comedic elements, that not only fitted very awkwardly with the rest of the atmosphere but it was also not funny, clever or well written, giving the sense that the film wasn't sure what it wanted to be and it makes the viewer unsure too. 'The Black Room' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the film started off very well but feels wasted by how quickly everything runs out of steam. The ending is an anti-climactic head-scratcher, like the script it feels incomplete and making sense of it was extremely difficult.Overall, mediocre but with good points that stop it from being worse. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Why Lin Shaye, why? Complete waste of time. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

If dry, dull, sanitized PG-13 horror is your thing then you won't like The Black Room. But if you're a fan of sexy 80s horror with violence, gore, and nudity then you'll enjoy this movie a great deal.A couple movies into their new house which they got for a good price--not knowing the details of the history of the place. In the 60s the former owners performed a drug-induced demonic ritual gone wrong. But the evil was kept behind the walls of the black room in the basement for years. Till recently when it attacked the owner's granddaughter. And with the new meat in the house, the demons are getting antsy. It's not long before the husband's body is taken over by the demon so he can provide flesh for its evil plans in the basement.The whole incubus/succubus storyline has been all but forgotten now that Hollywood movies pretend to be all "decent." Unfortunately. even low-budget and independent movie-makers have set it aside for some reason. Till now. Finally, with The Black Room we get a serious horror B-movie, not a C or Z movie, with some recognizable cast members, strong acting for the most part (Augie Duke impresses in her transformation from evil b$%& to evil hottie), OK effects and a good supernaturally-themed story that maintains some non-sensical elements about it. No biggie. The Black Room is an unusual, strong, and entertaining horror movie. Can't wait for the sequel with the hot succubus.

I have no idea why this is rated so high. I actually had to look it up here to see if it was supposed to be a horror movie or comedy. It is like some trash movie filmed in the 80s. Plenty of nudity though if you are into that sort of thing. It really reminded me of the first Hellraiser. That movie was scary when it came out but if you watch it now it's laughable. At least it had a storyline worth following.