Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

TheLittleSongbird Was drawn into seeing 'The Disappointments Room', with as said for many films seen recently a cool poster/cover, an intriguing if not exactly novel premise and as someone with a general appreciation for horror. That it was low-budget, which from frequent personal experience is rarely a good sign due to that there are so many poor ones out there, made me though apprehensive. 'The Disappointments Room', simply put, turned out to be a terrible film and waste of potential with next to no redeeming values and so much done catastrophically wrong. One of the worst films seen in a while, which is saying a lot for somebody who on the most part has been encouraged by their film/television watching and has more often than that been quite generous. Decent idea, horrendous execution.Lets start with one positive. The scenery is atmospheric, if wasted by the schlocky way the film is shot and particularly edited.However, the story does feel over-stretched and some of it feels vague, under-explained in the last third where the film especially became duller, more predictable, more senseless and less scary. Too many characters are too sketchy and with nowhere near enough to make one want to endear to them. Their irritating and illogical decision making and behaviours frustrate. Making the film feel bland and forgettable with not enough heart put into it. The acting is also terrible, expected better from Kate Beckinsale whose performance is overwrought and anaemic, and the effects are ropy at best.Dialogue can be stilted and rambling while the pace is uneven, dragging in a lot of the first half, which goes on forever and fails to get going, and never is it exciting. Found too many the supposedly shocking moments not surprising or scary and the supposedly creepy atmosphere dreary, due to the excessive obviousness and the lack of tension and suspense. Too many elements are introduced, and then dropped, barely explored or don't go anywhere, sometimes even all three.A lot of the film completely fails to make sense, both in underdeveloped plot elements and often nonsensical and confusing character motivations. There is a real sense that a lot more scenes were filmed and then dropped which explains the choppiness and lack of coherence. The threat is poorly used and poses very little threat. The film completely peters out with one of the most abrupt climaxes/endings seen for any film in a while.Overall, terrible, disappointment is a very apt word to sum it up. 1/10 Bethany Cox

devouring-08324 Let me begin my review by saying that I logged into IMBD for the first time in my life in order to rate and review this film, I hated it that much. The spoiler free version is this: It relies on tired tropes and has little in the way of concrete horror or fulfilling thriller. From this point on, this review will contain spoilers.The Disappointments Room is a run down festival wherein the carnies are made up of overused, overworked and unfulfilling tropes. Tropes are not bad, they're the cornerstone upon which humans build their media, not a single book, movie or game exists without some use of them. And yet The Disappointments Room manages to use every single one of the tropes that movies, especially horror movies, absolutely need to let die. It felt in a way like an exploitation film that did not want to admit it was an exploitation film. While they aren't particularly beloved by me, at least films such as Hostel or The Saw Franchise know what they want to be, and strive to be that. The Disappointments Room is a confused mess that can't decide whether it wants to be a ghostly horror, or a thriller, and it suffers deeply because of it. Right away the film launches into the usual introduction of a family pet only for that animal to die for a purpose that serves neither to deepen the horror or to move the plot along.I know why films do this, humans empathize with animals quickly and deeply and because of this killing off the family pet was once a swift way to gain audience emotion, however, it has been used to the point where at the very least, I myself cannot bring myself to feel anything about it other than apathy, the moment an animal appears in a horror film we all know what's going to happen: That animal is going to die for sure. And this is no exception, the death of the family cat provides nothing in the way of emotion or importance and therefore serves as nothing but an unsuccessful attempt at shock value. Yawn. The scares are few and far between if you can even call them scares at all, there are a multitude of characters who exist for no other reason than, well, they exist, their place in the plot is unnecessary at best and detrimental and distracting at worse. Even the husband, who should have had at least some bearing on the plot exists as nothing more than a two dimensional paper doll who exists only to give the wife someone to, at the very end of the film, cry into the arms of after having a rather exhausting breakdown during an unpleasant to watch drunken dinner scene. Which brings me to my next points.The main character of this film is struggling with depression and very likely PTSD, whether on purpose or on accident this film very strongly implies that people with mental illnesses or who have survived through some manner of trauma are dangerous, scary, and should not be allowed around their own family for fear they'll have a mental break and attempt to murder them whether they know that's what they're doing or not. Admittedly this is becoming not only a worrisome trope but also an incredibly overused and badly played one, it goes beyond being simply offensive straight into the realm of being all at once boring and painful to endure. And this doesn't even begin to touch upon the as usual overplayed trope that physically disfigured people are scary and that women are weak. Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person on earth to scream that something is misogynistic, but parts of this film simply scream Misogyny to me, from the portrayal that women are physically weak, to the portrayal that they're mentally weak as well and are simply one life tragedy--usually involving domestic things like children--away from snapping and throwing a fit during dinner. The use of 'accidentally killing her own infant' as backstory was also sudden, and unnecessary to boot, the film simply did not know what story points it wanted to run with, and because of this, there was simply too much happening for all of it to be resolved, leading to essentially nothing being resolved.If you like watching the family cat be mutilated, and you want to hear all about how people with depression are scary monsters who shouldn't be around normal people, this is the film for you! Otherwise, you'd be better off watching a campy straight to DVD horror that may be bad in the end, but at least will be an Entertaining sort of bad.

jmarinko925 I viewed the Disappointment's room this week and was glad I did not give in to the horrid reviews it received. This film may not be anything close to the Shining(some scenes are homages to it of course) but it is nowhere near deserving of the bashing It's gotten.As I understand this was a real thing in where a prominent family would lock a disfigured or disabled child away to avoid embarrassment and this was explained by HGTV's reality home remodeling show . The suspense was there throughout and I was not bored by this at all as in watching it I wanted to know the origin of the hostile poltergeist. There are jump scares but also some sequences that insight actual terror like a child being mauled by an animal. Kate Beckinsale carries the film as it's lead and the little boy's(her son in film) perilous situations had me holding my breath at times. I realize I am in the minority in not hating this film but it was a good watch for me at least .

beccalilbit I enjoy scary movies. One of my favorite styles no matter what time of year. So why would I not watch this one! Name brand actors and all. The movie just didn't add up. It felt like it was getting somewhere and left SO much clearly out. Here are some examples. The son saw the little girl..... or at least that is what they led us to believe and its never mentioned again. The pool boy was killed.... or was he? We will NEVER know. The grave was dug up..... maybe....The librarian tried to call.... once to warn them. Good for her..... oh... and what was she going to tell them exactly? How was that dinner with their friends? Seriously... WTF happened? This was a very choppy pieced together movie. Its like the pages of a book fell out all over the place, they were taped back in.... except of course 3 pages of each chapter, those were just left out due to space.