Well, this little piece of scary movie fluff definitely belongs with your darker variety of horror B-movies, the foreign feel and location being the darker elements, but basically been there, done that. If your any kind of fan of the horror genre, such as I, you’ve seen this movie already in some shape or form in plenty of other horror classics. It’s basically the ghost, trapped by some traumatic death, somehow release by the nice sweet person and bringing vengeance on all of her mean nasty bullies, so that when someone dies your horrified by the method, but secretly pleased that the mean people died, and of course, our heroine and love interest some how get the miraculous insight that allows them to rid everyone of said ghost and save the day. Then of course there’s always the last boo at the end, but you’ll have to watch it if you want to know what that is.
The premise of the film is a young woman, Katrine, who finally lands a place in the dorm of her chosen university, but quickly realizes that the coveted space has the opening because of the characters of her roommates, one in particular being Sanne, a mean spirited student ,who feels that she can control anything and anyone in her sector. When a person does not fit in they all work together to bully the person out, as Rolf, the ex resident of Katrine’s room found out. When Katrine makes the mistake of sleeping with one of them, who happens to be Sanne’s ex-boyfriend, they begin to use a well known myth of the ghost in room 205, Sanne’s room, to try to scare her out. Unfortunately, while in Sanne’s bathroom, she inadvertently releases the ghost, and the vengeful being begins slashing up her tormenters one by one. After being spurned by Sanne’s ex after their one night stand, she turns to Rolf, who’s been victimized by the group before and can relate, and who has more information about the myth that the begin to use to figure out what’s going on and devise a plan to stop it before they are next.
The film is mediocre at best , but it does have some shock value, with lots of suspense and some disturbing imagery, but otherwise it lacks the one thing I’ve really been looking for lately in films because it‘s so rare, especially in this genre, and that’s originality. The premise has a very cookie cutter feel, which happens to be a waste of some very decent acting and a spectacularly dark and menacing local. The feel of this place where they filmed would have been put to so much better use in a film that had a truly original script and storyline. What a waste of an excellent set, and is truly the biggest element that raised the standard of the film to mediocre. As far as a really great scary flick, I guess I’ll have to keep searching.
Movie Review By Helen
Release Date: October 14, 2008