Review of The Disappointments Room (2016) by Royce E — 31 Aug 2018

I feel like this is a film that was mis-marketed and generally poorly executed, I went in expecting a horror flick in a pretty classic setting, but I was surprised to find more of a psychological drama/thriller.

I think what most people didn't like about the film was its generally lacklustre acting and poor script but that being said it does have an interesting mystery and sports some beautiful camera work in a few scenes and generally a very good plot.

The film is not a horror film in my opinion, almost everyone's biggest problem with the film was what made it stand out to me, which was that there weren't any real scares and the antagonist is underdeveloped and has no horror climax, when in fact the whole premise of the film is about a woman who clearly has psychotic depression and the entire film is set from the perspective of her mind warped by grief.

It's not difficult to pick it out relatively early in the film but a movie about the mind of a woman suffering from psychosis I found was very riveting with lots of great commentary about mental illness.

Watch absolutely any scene in the film which alludes to horror and you can see the effort the filmmakers put in to skew the perception of the events unfolding as a part of an ultimately well rounded narrative.