Director: Mikey Okonkwo
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Plot:
Awakening in a strange room, a woman learns that she’s been captured and subjected to various psychological tortures by her captor with the intent of training her back into her primitive, animalistic instincts, and she must find a way to overcome the situation before it’s too late.
Review:
Overall, this was a fairly decent found-footage indie. Among the better elements here is a solid and nicely stylized setup that provides a great opportunity to delve into some harrowing territory. The whole setup about her being abducted and immediately starting not knowing where she is or who’s taken her, but only seeing herself dressed in children’s clothes in a liminal room with no way out and monitoring work used to ensure that she becomes the kind of figure that her captors want is an immensely likable and unsettling starting point. With the setup never providing initial answers and the resulting chaos and panic in trying to get out giving way to a series of impressive sequences showing the different psychological tortures about to be inflicted upon her, there's a striking tone throughout this part of the film that continually unravels the longer she's in there.
However, that also highlights the one issue with this one in that there's not much going on throughout here. It's immensely repetitive and pretty one-note after the first few minutes of something happening, where it's just going to be a series of interactions that are grating, annoying, and immensely difficult to follow, along with how low-budget the whole thing looks. That's understandable at least, but the other part is more important, where the crying and screaming turns out to be a cue for more jarring noise or blaring commercials that are intended to break her spirits, repeated over and over without much else going on. That tends to make this intriguing in concept but rather lacking in execution.
Overview: *.5/5
An intriguing if overall problematic genre indie, there’s some worthwhile aspects to this one that could’ve been quite enjoyable overall if its issues weren’t as detrimental as they are. Those with an interest in this style or approach or who are curious about it, will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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