"Hey guys! I have access to this empty house for the weekend, do you want to make a movie?"
"Sure, whatever."
"We'll call it 'The Dead Room' and it will have minimal explanation for what happens!"
And that's the story of how The Dead room was made... or at least how I assume it was made. I'm sure this had a budget in the sum of money I will never see at one time in my entire life, but I honestly have no clue what was really going on at the end.
Two paranormal investigators and a psychic come to a house in the middle of fuck all New Zealand after being called by a family we never see. The house is haunted by the ghost of a "giant" man. Initially they think that he is trying to attack them to get them to leave but they discover that he is trying to get them to leave in order to save them. Save them from what, you ask yourself (or you don't. Whatever. I don't blame you). Save them from the mummified woman that is chained up in a secret basement under the house that you have to bust through the dry wall which you only know because of a ghost hand print on a thermal image scan. That's a long sentence. It took a long time for this movie to get up to this point when watching it.
Cops are called, the body is gone, and they realize the ghost was trying to save them from the Mummies Alive! Everybody dies super fast and the ghost/mummy/witch/whatever moves at the camera quickly and we're done.
This movie sucked. I was briefly excited at the prospect of this weird corpse in the basement but it's like they've been edging this whole time just to fucking shoot their spooky load in the last 10 minutes. While I'm complaining about this movie (as it's pretty much what I do on this blog), the choice to have a cage of birds in this film was a poor one. First off, the birds don't care when they get fed after supposedly not eating for a few days. I've seen pigeons pull a knife on other pigeons for french fries after having just ate one. Goddamn pigeons and their adorable switchblades! Second, these birds are horrible actors as they don't react to anything the people are. Third, their cage gets thrown across the room at our group of losers and in the next shot the cage apparently righted itself and the birds are totally ready to just nap. Like the ghost was like "Oh shit! Sorry birds! Let me fix that for you." Birds fucking suck as actors. Kick them out of SAG.
I give The Dead Room 1 parakeet out of 5, and this is only because of a mummy woman being chained in the basement and that was briefly cool:
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