Room 6 (2006)

Expected more

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This movie starts off with a young woman named "Amy" (Christine Taylor) waking up after having a bad dream about being operated on in a hospital while fully conscious. That day while driving home with her boyfriend "Nick Van Dyke" (Shane Brolly) they are involved in a bad traffic accident and he is taken by an ambulance to a hospital. But no hospital in the area claims any admissions. She then begins to see strange visions and suddenly everybody she meets starts acting very unusual. Anyway, for a low-budget film I thought this one wasn't too bad. I especially liked the way the movie kept the mystery going until the very end. Along with that, I thought Christine Taylor performed quite well and was also rather attractive too. Some of the nurses weren't too bad either. In any case, I thought this movie turned out to be pretty interesting and I rate it as slightly above average.

Amy (Mrs. Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor) has to get over her deeply embedded fear of hospitals after her boyfriend is taken to St. Rosemary's after a horrific car accident. The problem is that that specific hospital doesn't seem to technically exist. She joins up with Lucas (Jerry O'Connell from "Sliders", "My Secret Identity" & "Stand by Me" fame) who's searching for her sister, a victim of the same car accident. O'Connell pulls of his role with aplomb and the hospital setting does create an unnerving atmosphere. Also the make-up effects are pretty well done given the budget. However Taylor just can NOT seem to act in this film and as she's the lead role it's a huge detriment to the movie. A fairly clichéd and highly derivative plot don't help matters in the least. I've seen worse films, but I've also seen much much better ones. Oh and I saw the "twist" ending coming a mile away and still found it atrociously bad.Eye Candy: 4 nurses decided to all get nude and drip blood all over each other for no reason whatsoever Where I saw it: Netflix online viewMy Grade: D

well i'm not quite actually sure about this one folks...... i think that they had a really good idea behind the movie, i liked the car crash scene, but the zombies , the way they looked well i've seen a lot better from other horror movies, the story well let's just say that it could have been better, i think the ending sucked. the main character was way too squeamish for my tastes. there are worse movies out there, except this one left the viewer, me,,, with more questions than answers, and i really don't care for a movie that does that. i did like the boiler room scenes i thought they were very stylish, and in the special features on the DVD, they mention that it was the same boiler room that was used in the original nightmare on elm st. so basically i've seen a lot better,, this movie basically deals with angels, demons, heaven , hell, and pergatory,, the part where something in her childhood happened to her when she was 12, about her father was brilliant ,, but not how they did it in the end i thought.

A woman and her boyfriend get into a car accident. After the man is taken by ambulance to an unknown location, the woman (Christine Taylor) goes on a hunt to find him along with her new friend (Jerry O'Connell) -- along the way encountering demons for some reason.I am sad to report that Christine Taylor makes for a very weak leading lady. I loved her in "Dodgeball" and "My Name is Earl", but for some reason she comes across as very flighty here (more in the first half than in the second). Is she not capable of drama? Is acting scared just not something she can do? I don't know, but I was let down. (I'm still jealous of Ben Stiller for having such a hot wife, though.) The early parts of the film are very tedious. There is lots of empty, repetitive dialogue (both in the opening hospital scene, and shortly after when Amy is getting picked up from school). The less each person says, the better the scenes are in this movie. Unfortunately, in the first ten minutes no one will shut up long enough to let the movie have a solid start. (The phrase "I'm awake" probably is said no less than twenty-five times in the first five minutes.) What I found also odd was that although the makeup was decent (the demons looked like demons), the special effects were not very impressive. Rather than use a trick syringe for an injection, for example, they slid the syringe under the sleeve of a patient. Maybe I'm picky and the average viewer wouldn't notice, but I felt cheated.Now, the scenery was nice. The abandoned hospital, the ambulances, the demons. There is a scene with vampire lesbians (or something like that) which I thought was quite alright, although it was more of a tease than anything.Somebody decided to cast Jerry O'Connell, and I'd like to know whom that was. In all fairness, Jerry was a better actor in this film than Christine Taylor. But he just calls to mind crappy films like "Tom Cats" and the show "Sliders". I like Sliders, but this guy is a cheesy actor. He's right up there with Brendan Fraser. His very presence makes a movie's suck factor increase. This one was no exception.Horror icon Kane Hodder (better known as Jason Voorhees) shows up to be a demon bum. I enjoyed seeing Kane Hodder, but the part was not important and could have been played by pretty much anyone. (And really, if you're casting for a bum, get someone who's bum-looking, not a weightlifter.) I will give the Best Actress award in this film to the little girl named Melissa (played by Chloe Moretz). She actually had my full attention when she was on the screen, like everything she said or did was crucial. Excellent. Moretz is becoming what I would call "the Dakota Fanning of horror", because she seems to be the person you call when you need a little girl. (Moretz has so far also appeared in "Wicked Little Things" and "Amityville Horror".) My biggest problem with this movie, besides the poor acting and weak production value, was I was constantly asking myself: did any of this add up? Demons, lesbian vampires, a hospital that doesn't exist, ambulances that steal loved ones. The film makes some attempt to explain this, but that attempt is incredibly weak and I was left trying to piece things together. But I felt like I opened a 500-piece puzzle and 700 pieces fell out. What the heck? 2006 has offered some quality horror films. "Slither", "Feast" and "Saw 3" just to name some off the top of my head. "Room 6" is not one of them, so unless you spend most of your free time watching really crappy movies (like I obviously do), don't pick this one up.