Nightmare Box

Per chance Nightmare Box aka Doom Room got on my screen. Like some other reviewer mentioned, the movie works rather like a stage play, as 99% percent of the movie are just playing in one room, the doom room. I watched the movie thru and it is for sure no masterpiece but a got example and study what a team who got a vision (and some technical expertise in acting, cam work, setting design) can achieve with very limited resources. Despite some flaws (especially the sounddesign is rather weak) watchable, but the format of a short movie would have been the better choice in my opinion, because the longer the movie rolls on the more it loses momentum.

This is not a film for what has become todays typical big budget supposed "horror" fans with the jump scares and same old story of expelling a demon from someome who has slowly been posessed. I wouldnt even call this a horror movie, I would call it mystery and suspense. I do agree with one reviewers post that it kind of felt like a stage performance but it doesnt matter because this film is good. It has good acting, a good plot, and a good mystery. If you are okay with that you will enjoy this movie, but if you are looking for the jump-scares or gore just skip it. It is really a shame that people are reading this movie either 1 or 2 stars, or 10 stars. This is a solid 6, it would have been 7 but unfortunately I figured out what was going on before the film revealed itself.

Doom Room (also released as Nightmare Box) is a low budget British surreal horror movie directed and co-written by Jon Keeyes starring Debbie Rochon. A girl with amnesia (Johanna Stanton) wakes up in a locked room with no exit and no recollection of how she got there. Inside this room our Jane Doe finds herself taunted and abused by her captors and a series of paranormal entities who keep her from learning who she really is. This movie is like a hybrid between a fringe play and a b-horror movie. Doom Room is a bit slow and not without flaws, but an interesting take on the captivity horror sub-genre.

I really enjoy this movie and have watched numerous times. It keeps your attention because new characters surface and you need to put everything together like the main character in the movie has to do. Yes it all takes place in a room but that's the whole point, people!! The acting is very good for a lower budget movie!! I would recommend this movie to everyone!!

Poor acting, and the clearly obvious low budget let this film down, that said I gave it a score of 2 for effort.