this is quite possibly the worst of the 500 movies i've suffered through this year.

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2013)

in which they try to remake the shining in a 3 room apartment with two fewer people, a much, much worse lead actor & an asinine script. also, they forgot the whole concepts of mood and subtlety.
i mean, what else did they do wrong? besides making the main character the typical douchebag you hate from the beginning? uhm...
let's see, the instability of a supposedly super psychostable individual progressed much too rapidly.
the half hour or so they wasted on an half-assed attempt at backstory could really have been used to better meter the pace once within the room, uhm.
have i mentioned the shining yet? because this movie really plays out like they tried to make it an action film instead of a psychological horror. now, maybe i'm jaded, given that i'm a paranoid schizophrenic, but it would be much more terrifying to put a bunch of bricks in the drier and turn it on.
from the beginning, they screw with your sense of space and position, but you cannot be subtle with that in a single apartment, and they certainly haven't even tried.
honestly, i can't see being disturbed by this film, even if you *believe* in the supernatural to begin with. unless you have the mind of an eight year old, or are on some really good acid (and even then, i could recommend any number of much, much better things to do on acid), this movie is literally a waste of your time. it even manages to get less interesting as it drags on.
in fact, scratch what i said about needing that time from the introduction. they could've replaced half this movie with static images of dead bodies and it would be 800% better, which is to say nearly worth watching. ftr, they seem to have realized this about halfway in, but again, the execution is terrible. and yes, i am watching this in the dark alone, turning off my monitor between comments that i cannot help but make, even.
if you're new to the genre, do yourself a favor. watch the shining. watch triangle. watch candyman. i could list fifty movies that all do this much, much, much better. & if you've seen all of those, this is two hours of your life that you will never get back. this is the sort of thing you regret having wasted time on when you're on your deathbed.
you see, the secret to psychological horror is immersion, and this movie breaks it every five minutes. one of the few films i can honestly say i would've walked out on at the theater.
DID THEY JUST USE THE WORD KAFKAESQUE? HAS ANYONE WITHIN FIVE MILES OF THIS SCRIPT READ KAFKA?
okay, i'm sorry, was trying to keep from commenting and force immersion for the last half hour but did they honestly cast that black man from the shining at this point in the film? that's spitting in so many faces, the least of which is mine. i can't even. please, please, don't ever waste your time watching this. hold while i finish so you don't have to.
i'm sorry, but to reiterate, there's one rule in psychological horror: never break immersion. you can break reality as many times as you please, but you NEVER break immersion. this movie treats you like you're eight, so maybe it's something you should show to your six year old.
i can't even. so done. everyone involved in this movie needs to be shot. how many hours of life have they sucked out of this miserable world? why? i know you almost want to watch it at this point, but, no. don't. it isn't boring, it isn't amusing. it isn't even so bad that it's good. it's just infuriatingly poorly conceived, designed and made, end of story.