Director: Darren Dalton, Robert Gillings
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
After going missing during a film shoot, a team looking into the history of a local insane asylum is joined by a woman trying to find what happened to them, and as they explore the facility learn the devious nature of what’s happening in the asylum forcing them to get out alive.
Review:
On the whole, this was a serviceable at best genre effort. Among the brighter spots here is a workable concept involving a slight twist to the reality-show-shoot feature. Although it starts with the exploits of the crew on the shoot and them going through their routine, it soon turns into a slightly different kind of effort where the group has now gone missing and the girlfriend of one of them heads off to the location to look for them and gets caught up in their same fate. That makes the first half somewhat more intriguing than expected with the search for the team and what they reveal about the backstory of the location setting this up with a decent enough starting point.
After getting caught in the facility, this becomes quite fun with the reveal about the team still being alive and stuck in a demonic loop that showcases the genuinely chilling and creepy location. The confusing, never-ending layout, is believable as a location where what was thought to be demonic beings hideout in the shadows launching attacks on the team in several fine confrontations that take place inside the facility. This becomes what drives the final half here where the series of gruesome scenarios involves the reveal of the real purpose for bringing everyone together and what’s at the facility which has some fine gore involved as well to give the film some positives.
There are some issues here that hold it back. One of the biggest issues with it is the inherent confusion of what’s happening to the team the longer they’re inside. It’s impossible to know if they’re trapped in the real world or a supernatural realm, if the creatures are inbred human offspring or demonic entities summoned to the location, or even how the team got lost inside which is just a fraction of the questions this one raises. The other issue with this one is the twist reveal for the final half sending this into a bizarre series of reveals that are stupid in trying to piece together how these events come together and it’s just difficult to care about this section which lowers this one overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A likable enough genre effort but not much more than that, this one features decent but unspectacular efforts and only a few genuine flaws which leaves the film in the watchable realm it ends up being. Those who appreciate this kind of genre effort are the main supporters for this one while most others out there should heed caution.
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