So, after watching the trailer for this movie I was rather excited. Despite bing one of those 'not very well known horrors' which I tend to avoid as 9/10 they end up being a disappointment, I figured the idea of a haunted hotel is somewhat unexplored in recent horror movies (a nice change from the possession/exorcism obsession which is dominating nearly all recent movies of the horror genre). Unfortunately this movie failed to live up to expectations.
Firstly, the plot development is infuriatingly slow. The first hour of the film contains nothing very exhilarating and merely centres around getting to know the two very boring and considerably annoying main characters. Dedicating such a long time on character development would have been slightly justified if they were just the slightest bit interesting.
Secondly, there are more holes in this plot than there is in the ozone layer. Things are made out to be important but just never explained. I will list a few examples 1) The woman staying in the hotel with her child, why was this even included? They had no significance to the plot in anyway that I could think of. 2) Why is the ghost haunting the hotel so angry? I understand maybe because her body was hidden (I vaguely remember them mentioning in the short description we had of why the ghost was there)but why did the ghost suddenly become so murderous? What did Claire do that deserved death? 3) The old man (who from mere guesswork I presume was the runaway husband) who killed himself, why did his ghost become so angry and murderous? He seemed to like Claire and I can see no reason why he would want to hurt her. 4) The actress turned physic (A rather odd and unexplained character I felt) speaks of three ghosts. Something that I thought would turn out to be an interesting twist. I thought wrong, it was never explained.
I could write several more things that were extremely disappointing about this films plot but for me they were the main issues, apart from the appalling ending of a slamming door. In conclusion, as mentioned before a huge waste of what could have been an interesting storyline. So underdeveloped and unexplained when this film finished I felt annoyed both at the writer and myself for wasting an hour and a half of my time.
Firstly, the plot development is infuriatingly slow. The first hour of the film contains nothing very exhilarating and merely centres around getting to know the two very boring and considerably annoying main characters. Dedicating such a long time on character development would have been slightly justified if they were just the slightest bit interesting.
Secondly, there are more holes in this plot than there is in the ozone layer. Things are made out to be important but just never explained. I will list a few examples 1) The woman staying in the hotel with her child, why was this even included? They had no significance to the plot in anyway that I could think of. 2) Why is the ghost haunting the hotel so angry? I understand maybe because her body was hidden (I vaguely remember them mentioning in the short description we had of why the ghost was there)but why did the ghost suddenly become so murderous? What did Claire do that deserved death? 3) The old man (who from mere guesswork I presume was the runaway husband) who killed himself, why did his ghost become so angry and murderous? He seemed to like Claire and I can see no reason why he would want to hurt her. 4) The actress turned physic (A rather odd and unexplained character I felt) speaks of three ghosts. Something that I thought would turn out to be an interesting twist. I thought wrong, it was never explained.
I could write several more things that were extremely disappointing about this films plot but for me they were the main issues, apart from the appalling ending of a slamming door. In conclusion, as mentioned before a huge waste of what could have been an interesting storyline. So underdeveloped and unexplained when this film finished I felt annoyed both at the writer and myself for wasting an hour and a half of my time.