Darkroom
Darkroom
| 10 March 2013 (USA)
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Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story
HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Platypuschow Telling the story of a girl in a rehab centre who is offered a job that turns out to be her kidnapping and torture from religious zealots.Though the films production values are decent, the quality of the writing cannot be accused of the same.Messy generic plot that is as interesting as a 3 week old banana peel, instantly forgettable stuff.Elisabeth Rohm stars and I can't figure out for the life of me why, she is so above this tosh.With not a redeeming feature to its name Darkroom is not what I expected at all and sadly not something worth acknowledging again.The Good:Production values are decentElisabeth RohmThe Bad:Incredibly dullNo originalityPredictibleThings I Learnt From This Movie:With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion
Kat Webb This movie takes a long time to get going to the good stuff and as its only about 70 minutes long in total it could easily be made into a TV show.As for "the good stuff" it's nothing I haven't seen before in a lot of other horror movies. Religious nuts torturing girls private parts and forcing them to "repent".If you're a fan of torture porn I'd say go for it watch this movie. The thing that is most disturbing and not in a good way is it shows kids being tortured. I personally think kids shouldn't be in a movie of this caliber.
movieman_kev Michelle (Kaylee DeFer) finds herself trapped in a rather foreboding, dimly lit mansion terrorized by a sinister family after taking a job recommendation (the last you'll the word recommendation in regards to this boring little film, by the way, but I digress) A majority of the film is told in flashbacks, meandering, badly acted,excruciatingly dull flashbacks. I suspect to pad the rather thin material that the movie does possess. So what we have is what could've been a passable short film (that's being extremely generous) stretched out to a dreary, sleep-inducing sub-par saw-ripoff feature film. I hesitate to give this film a 1 because I have seen worse, but not by much.
suite92 Michelle was in an accident. This damages all her attempts at drug rehabilitation. To get out of the program, she needs to get Rachel's approval. She's lost her school aid due to the court orders, and her job prospects are dim. Rachel gives her an assignment, which is at a huge, for-sale house doing modeling. Amazing. Why would anyone give so much help to this loser-with-repellent-attitude? She's not attractive, she has a bad smoker's rasp, and various wounds on her body. Model? Seriously?Rachel tries to get her to own up to her part in the driving accident in a group therapy session. This is more or less at the heart of the film. Michelle does not want to accept responsibility. She was driving, the three people with her were killed, but somehow it was not her fault.So many flashbacks, so many irritations. This story is short, and should be told linearly.At the photo shoot, she gets a costume for the gig, and directions to the first filming location. But no one is there.By this time, I'm rooting for Michelle to get a one-way ticket out of the movie. She adds little, but is repellent and irritating.At one point, her captors put some food under the door of her holding cell. Rather than eating for strength, the pouting idiot throws the food against the door. This harms her foes not one bit, but does mess up her already nasty cell. Hours later, a slight lesson is learned, and she cooperates a bit for food.Of course, cooperation does not do her any good in the end. Her captors are siblings whose obsessions make them play out the nightmares of their youth with their abusive mother. Michelle is only a side prop.Will she get out alive? Let's hope not. The thought of a sequel is scarier than the entire movie. ------Scores--------Cinematography: 8/10 Not too bad; some weak light and soft focus, though.Sound: 2/10 Had to listen to Michelle's terrible voice. Incidental music was not a plus during the movie itself.Acting: 1/10 I like Elisabeth Roehm, and was sorry to see her in this mess. Even so, this was not one of her better performances. Kaylee DeFer, on the other hand, was simply terrible. Christian Campbell was wretched. Tobias Segal was worthless.Screenplay: 1/10 Why do I have to listen to this ugly woman's ugly voice? A woman with neutral looks and a routine sort of voice (just about anyone) would have drawn more sympathy, which would have given the film more depth. But no, this harsh, useless, foul-mouthed, unrepentant, murdering scumbag is what everyone has to experience. So the conclusion I get from this dubious casting is that the director wanted the audience to hate the protagonist from the get-go, and greet whatever is done to her with glee. The back story of the siblings was convenient as well. So, let the slashing begin. The ending was incredibly weak.