Der Übergang

Otherwise you might start watching The Corridor. The front cover looks genuinely well-made, with a real creepy atmosphere. How wrong it can be. Despite the intriguing visual art, the film is pretty dull.

It plays out like Stephen King's 'Dreamcatcher,' only not as good (and Dreamcatcher was pretty maligned!). Four (or was if five?) friends go to a mountain cabin to bond (or something, it doesn't really matter). There, one of them starts finding a wibbly-wobbly area of the surrounding woods that looks nothing like a corridor, yet that's what they call it. This wibbly-wobbly bit gives them all nosebleeds. Carnage follows.

However, what little carnage there is (and one particularly impressive gore scene) comes woefully too late. The characters are simply too dull to care about, which is a shame, as the actors do a decent job of portraying them (if you can excuse the worst 'bald' man's head ever to hit the screen).

The acting is not the problem, it's just the flow. The first two thirds are basically the guys sitting around discussing their problems. Most people will have already condemned the film before it kicks off. Then, when it finally gets going, you may enjoy the final third, but it's a hell of a long road to travel just for the pay-off.

If you liked Dreamcatcher, stick to it. If you didn't, you probably won't like this either!

This movie is not for hard core horror or sci fi fans.

This is not your typical horror/sci-fi, as evidenced by some reviewers complaining that this movie was "boring". I have to disagree! It wasn't boring to me, but it isn't really a horror/sci fi either.

As for me, I appreciate and like a story that takes time to allow us to get to know the characters and has a slow burn while increasing tension.

The acting was very well done. And I grew to like and enjoy this group of friends. This story had a Stephan King, feel, to it for me. (His earlier works) I believe this was more of a drama with supernatural flavors, rather then any other category. (There was a bit of blood and violence at the end. Just not much)

The sci fi part of it was realistically based and was simply but effectively portrayed. It made me really think about possibilities!! It is a very well done movie, just put into wrong categories. Reviewers are expecting different genras. Thus, IMO, the lower ratings.

With-in 40 minutes of the movie, we have a solid foundation of the characters and an indication of what the main character is experiencing. And the pace sped up from there.

I thought it was a worthy watch, and recommend it to viewers who don't need a lot of action or gore to be interested and entertained.

Almost didn't see this one because of the horrible reviews I kept seeing. After watching I realized that I was entertained. The nay-sayers on this one either don't like horror, or don't like sci-fi. If your one who obsessively scans for plot holes, and constantly pointing out the this would never happen in real life, etc, etc, you probably shouldn't watch this movie. In fact you probably shouldn't watch most movies because none of them will ever stand up to your standards as movie are in fact not real life at all. Final thoughts: if you're into tripped out sci fi horror you might like this movie.

Lovely yours, Simeon

I can't think of the last time I saw anything this bizarre. The script must surely have been written by a genuine schizophrenic - parts of it are too idiosyncratic to be anything other than autobiographical and other parts of it are too strange to have any meaning beyond the context to the author's own delusions. There must be an endless number of scripts out there that are equally weird, produced daily by schizophrenics in mental hospitals all over the world. Here is one however, that someone decided to straight up make into a movie. I mean I don't know that this was the case but that's certainly what it appears to be.

There are however some genuinely scary moments amongst the bad acting and contrived scenes. For example - when the mother starts doing sign language on a loop on the video. The best bits of this movie (and they were very few) reminded me of "the Atrocity Exhibition". Check it out if you like unmitigated weirdness.

A small group of old school friends spend a boys' weekend at a remote forest cabin but when one of them, Tyler, scatters his dead mother's ashes a strange and magical corridor occurs in the snow. At first they see it as something incredible and weird but harmless. However things soon take a dark turn with them violently turning on one another with deadly results. This is a Canadian movie which sticks with metric measurements rather than trying to be "American", credit to them for that. It was shot in Nova Scotia during winter and the snow covered landscapes not only look good but also add to the sense of isolation and bleakness. The opening scene is quite horrific but then the rest of the first half is slow in terms of horror, though the characters were engaging enough to keep me interested. The vast majority of the horror comes in the second half. Gore highlights include a knife through a hand, a bloody garrotting, a scalping, a cruxifiction and several shootings, in the UK the violence got it a BBFC 18 certificate. The acting is OK but one of the guys has one of the funniest looking fake bold patches that I have ever seen, hilarious. The plot is quite original but sadly I failed to understand the confusing ending, if it wasn't for the funny bolding guy I'd have rated this a 4 but it gets an bonus point for the slaphead!