iamtherobotman Another film which had a decent concept but was once more let down badly by the execution. OK, so she gets herself a job as Security for an abandoned Luxury Tower Block and strange things begin to happen, fair enough. Why though must these films always have people act like complete morons?? Checking the buildings Blueprints she notices that room 411 doesn't have an active camera and states this amazing fact to her colleague who then informs her that that area was not completed and therefore didn't have a camera...Now, first day of the job would any normal person then continue questioning and then insisting that "someone" go check it out?? No, of course not, you'd pay attention to the guy who's worked there for a number of years and has the experience and know-how of the building, wouldn't you!! This is only one of the horrible horror cliché's within this attempt. She also becomes obsessed with gaining entry to the 'room' to such an extent she breaks in...She allows an old homeless guy access to the building to shelter from the storm outside... Now i realise that these instances were actually plot related but this is my point. The plot, the film, the alleged cliché of a 'twist' at the end were all poor, the film was poor. Her acting was passable at times though for some reason they constantly had her 'act' shocked or surprised by continually slapping her hand over her mouth and even at times forehead in some vain attempt to emphasise just how shocked/surprised/or worried she was. The whole thing was obvious from the word go, obvious 'jump scares', obvious overly dramatic score which at times went way over board, obvious occurrences...etc...etc. They tried desperately to create an air of malice and tension with use of lighting and angles and of course mixing in the CCTV footage but i'm afraid none of it worked. It had certain moments, brief though they were that were passable but overall this was just a horrible film rather than a horror film.

dysamoria Spoiler free statement: Expend your time on this at your own risk. Once you get to the ending, you'll possibly be wondering how anything made any sense, even within the confines of the movie's own world in a bottle. You're not missing anything. There is not enough meaningfulness in this film, as presented, to extract solid conclusions about what you watched. It spoon feeds you clichés and so-called surprises and refuses to justify character attitudes, motivations, actions, or reactions. These aren't complex and subtle things. There's nothing to uncover except one plot point you will probably see coming from the moment the protagonist suddenly discovers the history of the building (her declaration of having finally uncovered the details comes without the film ever having given us the sense that she was actually looking). Finally, the movie tries to surprise you at the end, only to make the preceding content entirely irrelevant. This is not good story telling. It's paint-by-numbers movie industry product assembly with the illusion of depth. Actual depth requires structure and the ability to take the ending and reframe all that went before it in a new and meaningful way. It's a shame movies like this have actors in them. As in, people who's livelihood depends on the success of the films they work on. Such films as this one probably don't do their careers any favors with the next job, especially with how actors tend to get blamed by audiences for the poor job done by the writers and directors who's material the actors are performing to specification. Then again, it wasn't really given a large release. Sometimes that's for lack of access and sometimes that's for lack of quality. I'm suspecting the latter here.One specific complaint: many of the reviews talk about a spectacular filming location. All I saw was a set of disparate locations stitched together by editing that makes it clear to me that each room is a different filming locale (or fails to show that any of these rooms is even related to the rest; often, moving from one physical location to another involves an edit, rather than passing the viewer through the environment from one space to the next). I don't buy that this was one location. If it really was, then wow, the editing and directing failed spectacularly to show it. It is left entirely to the willing suspension of disbelief of the audience to imagine these rooms relate to each other. This is common in lower budget productions where you often assemble fictitious locations via editing. I don't call 1.5 MILLION dollars to be "low budget", but I guess that's how it is these days and I'm being naive to expect more for that much money.It amazes me that people don't notice this, but then I also find myself rather alone in hating so much foley in TV and film. In fact, the foley bothered me more than the disparate locations on display. At least the locations and lighting result in an interesting atmosphere. But, that's really all there is: Atmosphere and cliché.

MissOceanB I'm not even sure where to begin. This film dragged on and on and I just kept thinking "I should at least see it all." So I watched it until the end and *surprise*...the ending was likely worse than the entire film. The writer(s) tried to make this film scary but in my opinion they failed miserably. I have a high standard for Horror films and while the trailer seemed interesting enough...the trailer was the only interesting part of the film. Without giving away spoilers...if you want to watch a newly- hired confused (and boring) female character wander around an old building while her grumpy and odd co-worker tells her where to go while watching from the security camera footage...then by all means this movie is for you. And then comes the weird ending. Which couldn't have come soon enough!

Willy Petrovich I am a horror fan and in my opinion this movie was pretty original and suspenseful. Yes there were some clichés but the concept of the plot is something unique for the genre. It is about a young, troubled woman who is doing a night shift in an abandoned building, with her supervisor. And what should be a routine task, soon turns to be a living hell. There is a surprising twist at the end, but I will tell no more about the story, because I don't wanna write spoilers. The director did a great job and there were some decent scares. Jason Patric was solid, as expected, and Louisa Krause was very convincing in her role too, who was completely unknown to me before watching the movie. Overall I would recommend it to all the horror/thriller fans, it is not a masterpiece, but it is certainly worth the watch.