What a bizarre movie 'The Disapointments Room' is. In fact it is so bizarre that I had to go and watch the trailer after seeing the film, because I couldn't imagine how they could possibly have marketed this. As I suspected, they portrayed it as basically pure horror. That isn't really the case however when you see the full length film. What is it then you might ask? I really don't know. I suspect they were going for a sort of a 'The Babadook' type thing where everything that happens is symbolic of something else (in this case depression). Now they were either too subtle with this concept, or they simply didn't know how to go about it properly. Hence, the finished product just ends up looking like a mess of a film that had no idea what it wanted to be.
I notice the trailer states that this is "Based on actual events". I didn't see this show up in the beginning of the actual film, but it is possible I missed it. What's strange though is that I can't imagine what part of this could be based on actual events - or I suppose more to the point, which part of it couldn't. What I mean by that is nothing that happens is this film is both possible and incredible. The ghost side of things is obviously complete crap simply put there so that this could be called a horror movie, and the rest is just run of the mill story lines that have featured in movies thousands of times and happened in real life billions of times. 'True stories" are usually an expedition up Mount Everest that went wrong, or a ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. Just a a very odd claim that one.
The film is riddled with negative elements. First of all, it's incredibly boring. There isn't even an opening scene of any note to kick things off and get the audience on the hook. There is one decent scare near the start, but not once after that did anything work in the least bit in terms of giving the viewers a fright or even creating any tension. Secondly, the amount of dream sequences and things shown that are not actually happening at all is bordering on ridiculous. Just time and time again, and you could even predict that this was the case while it was happening because it was so frequent. This is a real pet-peeve of mine, and this was one of the worst cases of it I've ever seen.
When you have the word 'Disapointments' in your movie title you better make sure it is a high quality film, otherwise the critics are going to have a field day. Sadly, 'The Disappointments Room' didn't get the memo on that one. There's very little to like here. Certainly not one to rush out and see.
I notice the trailer states that this is "Based on actual events". I didn't see this show up in the beginning of the actual film, but it is possible I missed it. What's strange though is that I can't imagine what part of this could be based on actual events - or I suppose more to the point, which part of it couldn't. What I mean by that is nothing that happens is this film is both possible and incredible. The ghost side of things is obviously complete crap simply put there so that this could be called a horror movie, and the rest is just run of the mill story lines that have featured in movies thousands of times and happened in real life billions of times. 'True stories" are usually an expedition up Mount Everest that went wrong, or a ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. Just a a very odd claim that one.
The film is riddled with negative elements. First of all, it's incredibly boring. There isn't even an opening scene of any note to kick things off and get the audience on the hook. There is one decent scare near the start, but not once after that did anything work in the least bit in terms of giving the viewers a fright or even creating any tension. Secondly, the amount of dream sequences and things shown that are not actually happening at all is bordering on ridiculous. Just time and time again, and you could even predict that this was the case while it was happening because it was so frequent. This is a real pet-peeve of mine, and this was one of the worst cases of it I've ever seen.
When you have the word 'Disapointments' in your movie title you better make sure it is a high quality film, otherwise the critics are going to have a field day. Sadly, 'The Disappointments Room' didn't get the memo on that one. There's very little to like here. Certainly not one to rush out and see.