No Exit (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | No exit |
| Original title | Breathing Room |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
John Suits Gabriel Cowan (co-director) |
| script | Gabriel Cowan John Suits |
| production | Gabriel Cowan Bryce Gerlach |
| music |
Chris Kidd Kari Rae Seekins Karl Suits Tim Ziesner |
| camera | Gabriel Cowan John Suits |
| cut | John Suits |
| occupation | |
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No Exit (OT: Breathing Room ) is a 2008 American horror film directed by John Suits and Gabriel Cowan .
action
Tonya is pushed into a room with eleven people. She gets a garment bag from the people stuck there. She wears a collar around her neck. Tonya goes to the unisex toilet to get changed . Her clothes are number 14, she also receives a photo, a tape message and part of a key. She receives further information from the other people. Everyone has received an item that should be more or less useful to them. The "host", as they call him, monitors the "game" with video cameras. In the room itself there are some “rules” that have to be followed. Any rule violation results in death. Of the former 14 people, two are already dead and laid out in an adjoining room. Together, the remaining members try to find a way out.
The clearly different characters wait for things and try to get behind the bottom of the game. The host reports by video message and declares the games open. Only one can survive, but only if he can correctly interpret the clues and cooperate with the others. After an hour the lights go out and when it comes back on, one of the people is dead. It goes on until number 5 (Harry) finds a clue. Hidden in a mirror is another addition to the rules: there are three offenders in the room: a rapist, a pedophile and a murderer. The killer should be found. An ex-alcoholic is offered an offer to save his grandchild, who is tied to a chair and shown on a video image. To do this, he has to kill a person. The host reveals the pedophile's identity: a middle-aged woman. Instead, the ex-alcoholic kills himself, but the woman dies too. The group breaks up and now acts against each other.
After the group has shrunk, another person is brought into the room. With him fits a key that Tonya and number 8 (Lee) put together and he can get rid of his collar. In fact, the group manages to blow up a wall with the help of the utensils provided by the host. However, one of the inmates bagged some of the cartridges, who also had a gun. But then the newcomer dies before he can tell what is behind the wall. The members eliminate each other until there are only number 5 and number 8 left next to Tonya. Number 5 is the rapist and attacks Tonya. Number 8 can shoot the attacker, but he rams a previously picked up piece of glass into his stomach. Seriously injured, number 8 was taken down by Tonya at the end.
Tonya is part of the game and leaves the room with the host. You see some computers and then Tonya is opened, you need her in room 3. A tracking shot shows a few more rooms and the game starts again.
criticism
The film is influenced by other low-budget films such as Cube , uses various puzzle elements from the Saw series and borrows from the Stanford Prison Experiment . Overall, it has been called a mediocre film.
“Breathing Room can be described as a tired Saw copy with a dash of battle royale without a lot of glossing over. He cannot hide his small budget for a minute and hardly build up tension over the entire duration. Those who are less familiar with the genre will still be able to deal with "who is the culprit", everyone else will just be bored. "
"Common terror thriller borrowed from the genre film" Cube ", which, due to the claustrophobic narrowness of the restricted location, has a more chamber-like effect."
Web links
- No Exit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review. Outnow.ch, accessed on September 10, 2010 .
- ↑ No Exit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .