Synopsis
The only way out is to let it inside.
Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.
Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.
La trampa (The Snare), Ловушка, 陷阱, La trampa, 악령의 집
When I’ve watched a string of movies I’ve rated really high, I tend to seek out something that I completely expect to rate low just so my OCD brain can balance things out in a completely irrelevant, inconsequential, and entirely unnecessary way so that is why I am here today with this movie. Except I actually thought it was somewhat decent so I guess I’ll have to seek out another bomb instead?
Three people get trapped in a lovely apartment building and slowly begin to unravel. Is it psychosis or are there actually ghosts playing them against each other? It’s not a terribly original idea, but it does make great use of the bleak empty building setting. The whole movie…
Despite the low ratings I finally decided to watch the oddly titled The snare. And damn was it grisly, sometimes to truly frightening and alarming effect. Though, I do think I get the discontent many seem to have with this film, as it's puzzling and confusing from start to finish and doesn't provide any straightforward answers in return. It's a nightmarish hellscape of a film, dark and desolate without any hints towards a positive outcome, pulling you into a carefully crafted downward spiral that's getting out of control and losing grip on logic and common sense very soon into the runtime. And it's only getting worse from there. It's exposing us to utterly horrible practices (it sure takes a few…
Manifestations of trauma with a supernatural subtext or survival horror obscured by madness? Mixed metaphors, mixed directions, and mixed styles. The incohesiveness is more distracting than disturbing. Essentialy a chamber piece, it alludes to the setting as being a central character but fails to develop connective ties that would make all but one of the characters anything more than one dimensional victims of circumstance. Superficial fodder for a protagonist that seems to be involved in three very different films. All of which seem ancillary to one another when shuffled together as they are. Tonally the atmosphere is there, the soundscape works, but it still suffers from directional overload. Tolerable at best.
A grizzly and claustrophobic film that certainly won't be for everyone... myself included.
A true assault to the senses starting with the close-up shots of people eating maggots. To up the gross-out factor, there is even a shitting scene and then the dude turns around and reaches in as though he's thinking about eating that as well. Then if that's not enough for you, they start eating each other, carving up bodies with a freakin' turkey carving knife. It's gross for sure--too much for my taste.
This is a film that intends to get under your skin and that's where it succeeds. It will irritate and disgust you and may even creep you out. Then there are the graphic scenes…
Yeah,, a slow burn,descent into madness,psychological horror film so if that's not your cup of tea stay away but if it is go for it you might be surprised.👍
6.5/10
This is a very atmospheric and disturbing film experience. I'm still trying to figure a few things about the ending but this went to places I didn't expect. It presents us some cool visuals and shocking moments but doesn't provide us with really any answers. So while I did appreciate it on a visual level I think on a script level there are some problems in addition to the film being about 15 mins to long. The performances here are solid especially by the lead. So overall an interesting film that kind of left me wanting in the end. 3/5 stars.
yep I haven't understood much, but I know that deep down there is a solid interesting core, I just have to find it
The worst 90 minutes of a horror movie I've seen this year! I hope this doesn't happen again this year.
A basic set up that's along the lines of dozens of similar shit on Netflix, three people trapped in a single place, but unlike a lot of those, it works hard to make the most of its tiny location. Cinematography works great as making the apartment spacious and ominous, not an easy thing to do when working with your basic apartment. There's a good layer of ambiguous atmosphere that goes a long way to work under your skin, and the performances and situations go far into depravity. With so much working, it's kind of a disappointment that there's not much "oomph" by the time it ends, nothing satisfying to hang your hat on and come out of it with.
Taking a trip into the wilderness, a group of friends on a retreat to a remote seaside lodge find themselves alone and stranded inside a cursed apartment complex by a malevolent entity that holds a powerful spell over them and forces them into desperate means to get away.
For the most part, this one was a decent if unspectacular effort. Like most modern British horror films, the film is really undone by the languid and wholly uninviting pacing that just really drags this one out far longer than it really should be. The first half of this one is a prime example as this one just goes through such a sullen and drowsy tone that just starts this one off…
In this insufferably awful British horror yarn,a trio of friends(Eaoifa Forward,Dan Paton,Rachel Warren) who wind up trapped at their weekend apartment when they're locked inside of their apartment pad and find that they're the only three people that are there and with no way of any possible escape,resulting in not only remaining stuck for several weeks(while only one survives long enough to leave alive in the finale) but also with couple Paton and Warren endlessly quarreling with each other while Forward has several visions of her abusive childhood past and slowly descends into psychological madness.
Writer/director C.A. Cooper mightily fails to capture a claustrophobic and captivating story as it is populated by one dimensional characters that leave the viewers not…
Movie #28 of Halloween Horrorfest 2017
Wait, what? No, seriously..what is this movie about?