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So I debated how to do this. I watched two horror movies yesterday and I was wondering if I should leave it in a back up in case I miss a day or something, but then I said that I'm actually watching one horror movie a day, so here I am.

DAY 3.1: The Room
On Shudder

I heard this was one of the good Shudder movies, and I have to say I was really pleasantly surprised. This is a German movie about a couple that moves into a house. They soon realize they can make a wish in a room of the house and it will come true. They proceed to use it in all the ways you expect, but then they make a wish that they really should not have made. A discovery after that about these wishes makes things a lot more dire. And that's all I can really get into with the plot.

But the plot here is really well done. It's pretty twisted and every piece seems like it was paced out perfectly. It does a good job still surprising you when you think you have an idea how this movie will go. There's a twist towards the end that really threw me for a loop as well. Unfortunately, I don't have too much to say about the plot except "Wow I really like it." It's not all perfect. A couple moments are a bit bumbled and I found the motivations for not just making the hard decision a little flimsy, but it didn't take me out of the movie at all.

The visuals are astounding though. I mentioned the wishing room, but there's a room that "powers" the wishing room and all the visuals from that are so great. Like you look at this thing, you look at the door to the wishing room, and then various other visuals are done to make this damn thing so foreboding and creepy. There's a few other visuals I can't talk about that are also done very well too. It's a movie on a clear budget, but they made all of their budget count. You have a movie like Devil's Gate that used all of their budget on the special effects, but this one used it all on creating this daunting home and these creepy rooms.

I was engaged through the whole movie, wanting to know where it goes, and it delivered on it. It's a simple movie, but that simplicity is the appeal.

Rating: 8/10

Shudder is $6 a month or so, btw, with a 7 day trial. So it's not a terrible purchase.

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