The Dead Room (2015)
When a terrified family flees a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets at all costs.
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Just what I expected
Best movie of this year hands down!
As Good As It Gets
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Overall, it's not a bad movie. It could have been pretty good, if not for Laura Petersen. If she were able to act her way out of a paper bad, the movie would have been pretty decent. She's painful to watch.
Cynical Scott (a perfectly crusty portrayal by Jeffrey Thomas), the more eager Liam (a solid performance by Jed Brophy), and vulnerable psychic Holly (well played by foxy brunette Laura Peterson) investigate a remote farmhouse that's rumored to be haunted.Director Jason Stutter, who also co-wrote the compact script with Kevin Stevens, relates the absorbing story at a steady pace, makes fine use of the rundown abode location, and eschews gore and cheap scares in favor of focusing instead on a gradually mounting spooky atmosphere which culminates in a chilling climax complete with a nifty little twist towards the end. The practical special effects are pretty simple, but still do the trick just the same. Grant Atkinson's sharp widescreen cinematography and the spare shivery score by Steve Roche, Janet Roddick, and David Donaldson are both up to par. A worthwhile fright film.
Started out great but 1/2 hour in I got quickly bored. A few scary scenes. That ghost hunter girl looked like she was reading off cue cards. The rest of the cast were good though, especially the older ghost hunter. This is just another ghost/paranormal activity theme, been done to death. Clichéd ending.
After I finished this one I started going over in my head what I was going to write about it. I wanted to just say, "Pretty boring. If you just watched the last 20 minutes or so of the film, that's all you would need."Then I started thinking about it more, and I feel that I need to say more than that. It wasn't that the beginning was slow, and you did need it to build up the tension, but when I really thought about it, it was because of the actors. They almost seemed bored to be there, and there wasn't a lot of sharing who they were with each other, so I didn't really care about them.There was also the fact that all three of them went to sleep at night. I don't watch the ghost busting shows on TV, but I would think at least one person would stay awake to monitor the equipment. It wasn't until a couple nights in that they set an alarm for 15 minutes before the activity would begin.When you finally get to the last 20 minutes, lots of action takes place with furniture flying around the room, and the actors running around in terror. But even with this, it was just ho-hum. After they got to the meat of the movie, I was left with so many questions. Why was 3am the time everything happened. Why was the person doing what they did. And a couple of more, but I don't want to spoil anything if you decide to watch it.