Production is higher/better than a lot of cheap horror movies, but so much was lame. Acting wasn't terrible but the script isn't great, and the plot was poorly executed - the idea had great potential but it flaked out. Giving it a one or two really isn't fair. I have seen so, so much worse. But a 9 or 10 is fake.
I was torn between giving it a 3 or a 4. Initially rated it 3, but just watched a movie so much worse that I decided it's worth a 4 just for production values and acting had some merit. I finished it, that's something. But a 6 is extremely generous or maybe they're just stupid, and anybody says 8, 9, or 10 is a liar, or maybe really, really stupid and has never watched movies.
My biggest problem was with stupid, unreasonable behavior by allegedly intelligent medical interns.
There are 3 patients with sleep disorders in a secret/forgotten basement of a medical university being illegally treated by a doctor with unapproved drugs. They are all in the same room, with an observation window. Only one is a woman and she has 'night terrors'. She is obviously afraid of the new patient, the brother of the female lead CJ a medical intern. He has fatal familial insomnia and their mom had it. He acts like he's possessed, sitting on the edge of the bed hunched over with the bones in his back pushing out, his eyes changed color - more than once - I guess nobody standing all around him noticed, he's murmuring in an evil voice with an evil smile - all of which his sister shrugs off, looking confused, oh well. The female patient grabs CJ, crying hysterically, she is terrified and says she's scared and she wants to leave -but CJ basically shoves her back down on the bed and says 'you'll be fine once you get your meds' then leaves the room and LOCKS the door. So I guess that means the patients are at the mercy of whack a doo doctor & company, can't just walk out if they want to. If it had been me I would have walked out the room as soon as the door opened, and punched anybody who tried to stop me - this lady just whimpered and did nothing. The lady patient then climbs onto the back of a chair and puts a chain with a kind of noose around her neck, smiles and says in a demon voice "this is for you CJ" while CJ stands in the now open door and says NO! but otherwise has stopped in the doorway and never rushes to try and stop her from hanging herself, instead watches her step off the chair, shirks back and bursts into tears and then does absolutely nothing to stop her from strangling to death. Self hanging doesn't cause instant death. She doesn't even call for help, I'm not even sure she tells anyone immediately. Her crazy brother is sitting there like a grinning moron and there is another male patient in a bed in the room with headphones on who looks young and strong- he could have helped hold the woman up to avoid strangulation, but he has his back turned and CJ doesn't ask for help. Headphone guy (another review called him sleepy John Wick - I recognized who he meant as soon as I saw him) never says a word throughout the movie, but is usually awake and watching, but never does anything but stare with an unhappy expression.
Even later when they 'try' to leave to take the body out, the doctor and all 3 interns are prepared to go in the elevator with the stretcher, but they left Sleepy John Wick and possessed brother back in the room with chain nooses hanging off the ceiling.
Nobody tells anybody anything important, CJ sees an old VHS tape of her mother possessed and tearing pages out of a bible, when her brother does the exact same thing in exactly the same way - she doesn't act like there's any connection. Even after she sees him muttering weird things and appears to make the lady with night terrors have a terrible dream & she jumps awake and starts crying and looking at him in fear - then begs to leave, CJ shrugs it off and never even told anybody she wanted to leave. Who does that? Even after he grabs Cj by the throat and says LL KILL YOU in a demon voice, she takes no action. Seeing him muttering incantations in an ancient language, probably latin in a demonic voice, she can't put 2 and 2 together. Even though it was obvious he's dangerous, she leaves another patient alone in the room with him. I mean really pretty much everything is her fault for being so stubbornly stupid, irresponsible and selfish.
Also I have to wonder why a room with 3 sleep deprived patients who may show erratic behavior has 3 chain nooses hanging off the ceiling. I can't think of any reason hanging chains looped around to create a slide noose like a dog's choke chain would be hanging off the ceiling.
The elevator won't work, the staircase has collapsed, there is no phone out, cell phones don't work, and nobody knows that place exists - how did she get out?
NOT A TEN, not a 5, no more than a 4 - but at least a 3, I mean hey it's no 'Ouija Shark' 1 star.
I was torn between giving it a 3 or a 4. Initially rated it 3, but just watched a movie so much worse that I decided it's worth a 4 just for production values and acting had some merit. I finished it, that's something. But a 6 is extremely generous or maybe they're just stupid, and anybody says 8, 9, or 10 is a liar, or maybe really, really stupid and has never watched movies.
My biggest problem was with stupid, unreasonable behavior by allegedly intelligent medical interns.
There are 3 patients with sleep disorders in a secret/forgotten basement of a medical university being illegally treated by a doctor with unapproved drugs. They are all in the same room, with an observation window. Only one is a woman and she has 'night terrors'. She is obviously afraid of the new patient, the brother of the female lead CJ a medical intern. He has fatal familial insomnia and their mom had it. He acts like he's possessed, sitting on the edge of the bed hunched over with the bones in his back pushing out, his eyes changed color - more than once - I guess nobody standing all around him noticed, he's murmuring in an evil voice with an evil smile - all of which his sister shrugs off, looking confused, oh well. The female patient grabs CJ, crying hysterically, she is terrified and says she's scared and she wants to leave -but CJ basically shoves her back down on the bed and says 'you'll be fine once you get your meds' then leaves the room and LOCKS the door. So I guess that means the patients are at the mercy of whack a doo doctor & company, can't just walk out if they want to. If it had been me I would have walked out the room as soon as the door opened, and punched anybody who tried to stop me - this lady just whimpered and did nothing. The lady patient then climbs onto the back of a chair and puts a chain with a kind of noose around her neck, smiles and says in a demon voice "this is for you CJ" while CJ stands in the now open door and says NO! but otherwise has stopped in the doorway and never rushes to try and stop her from hanging herself, instead watches her step off the chair, shirks back and bursts into tears and then does absolutely nothing to stop her from strangling to death. Self hanging doesn't cause instant death. She doesn't even call for help, I'm not even sure she tells anyone immediately. Her crazy brother is sitting there like a grinning moron and there is another male patient in a bed in the room with headphones on who looks young and strong- he could have helped hold the woman up to avoid strangulation, but he has his back turned and CJ doesn't ask for help. Headphone guy (another review called him sleepy John Wick - I recognized who he meant as soon as I saw him) never says a word throughout the movie, but is usually awake and watching, but never does anything but stare with an unhappy expression.
Even later when they 'try' to leave to take the body out, the doctor and all 3 interns are prepared to go in the elevator with the stretcher, but they left Sleepy John Wick and possessed brother back in the room with chain nooses hanging off the ceiling.
Nobody tells anybody anything important, CJ sees an old VHS tape of her mother possessed and tearing pages out of a bible, when her brother does the exact same thing in exactly the same way - she doesn't act like there's any connection. Even after she sees him muttering weird things and appears to make the lady with night terrors have a terrible dream & she jumps awake and starts crying and looking at him in fear - then begs to leave, CJ shrugs it off and never even told anybody she wanted to leave. Who does that? Even after he grabs Cj by the throat and says LL KILL YOU in a demon voice, she takes no action. Seeing him muttering incantations in an ancient language, probably latin in a demonic voice, she can't put 2 and 2 together. Even though it was obvious he's dangerous, she leaves another patient alone in the room with him. I mean really pretty much everything is her fault for being so stubbornly stupid, irresponsible and selfish.
Also I have to wonder why a room with 3 sleep deprived patients who may show erratic behavior has 3 chain nooses hanging off the ceiling. I can't think of any reason hanging chains looped around to create a slide noose like a dog's choke chain would be hanging off the ceiling.
The elevator won't work, the staircase has collapsed, there is no phone out, cell phones don't work, and nobody knows that place exists - how did she get out?
NOT A TEN, not a 5, no more than a 4 - but at least a 3, I mean hey it's no 'Ouija Shark' 1 star.