Room 6 Movie
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A young woman's world is turned upside down after a tragic accident steals away her boyfriend. The walls of reality continue to crumble as the troubled woman and a fellow victim try to track down their loved ones at a mysterious hospital which should not exist.
| Christine Taylor | Amy |
| Shane Brolly | Nick |
| Chloe Moretz | Melissa Norman |
| Jerry O'Connell | Lucas Dylan |
| Ellie Cornell | Sarah |
| Jimmy Shubert | Bob |
| Lisa Ann Walter | Sgt. Burch |
| Marshall Bell | Amy's Dad |
| John Billingsley | Harrison McKendrick |
| Jack Riley | James Brewster |
| Andrew Davoli | Paramedic |
| Marissa N. Blanchard | Young Amy |
| Stacy Fuson | Nurse Price |
| Katie Lohmann | Nurse Lowe |
| Cheryl Tsai | Nurse Park |
| Michael Hurst |
4.10 out of 10 (1221 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Pretty bad, ineffective psychological horror film.
posted on 05 Jul 2009Room 6 starts normally for Amy (Christine Taylor) & her fiancé Nick (Shane Brolly) just like any other day of the week until he proposes to her, on their way home that afternoon they are involved in a car crash where Nick injures his leg. Help soon arrives & Nick is taken away in an ambulance along with the sister of Lucas (Jerry O'Connell) who were also involved in the accident, however neither Amy or Lucas are told which Hospital their loved ones are taken too. Amy & Lucas both head for the nearest Hospital but they know nothing of who they seek, in fact they phone all the Hospital's in the local area & none of them seem to have admitted Nick or Lucas's sister. Where are they? The police won't help them & they have to find them on their own, but where do they even start?Co-written & directed by Michael Hurst Room 6 seems to be one of those films which divides opinion having looked at various other reviews & comment on it from around the internet & the IMDb, personally I'm firmly in the camp that dislikes it. The script by Hurst & co-producer Mark A. Altman takes itself very seriously & starts off promisingly enough with an intriguing premise that grabs you, unfortunately it all falls apart as it goes all weird with scenes that make no sense in context with the rest of the film, the character's are poor, the dialogue not much better & then there's the terrible 'twist' ending which had me reaching for the 'off' button on my remote, as soon as the credits started to roll it was pressed. To my eyes it never tied things together properly or with any great satisfaction, it all left me rather unmoved & the fact that it's pretty slow going doesn't help either. I think the length might have been a problem as well, to fill out a 90 odd minute feature film the filmmakers obviously had to pad the simplistic story out, it relies on it's 'twist' ending for it's impact & a lot of what goes before just seems pointless, I think overall Room 6 would have been so much better if it was a tight little 30 odd minute Tales from the Crypt (1989 - 1996) episode, then again thinking about it Room 6 & the 90 minutes I spent last night watching it would have been much better if it had never been made...Director Hurst doesn't do anything special, it's got cheap TV film written all over it. It's all rather flat, bland & forgettable. He goes for psychological horror rather than in your face horror, unfortunately the story is weak, the 'twist' at the end is poor & as a whole I found it all very unsatisfying & a bit of a waste of time. Forget about any violence or gore as there isn't any.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 Room 6 is an average production at best, I'll probably have completely forgotten about it by the end of tomorrow. The acting was poor, I never cared for anyone & again since the 'twist' ending relies on you doing so so much the film suffers.Room 6 is one of those films which seems to think having a clever 'twist' ending is all that matters, unfortunately Room 6 doesn't have a clever twist ending. I pretty much hated it, definitely not recommended.
Awful, awful movie
posted on 03 Jun 2009I just finished watching this movie, and I decided to register with IMDb JUST to warn other people not to watch this movie.My girlfriend is a production designer, just finished her school and I can say first-year students movies are better than this one. Technically its nothing (lighting doesn't fit, clichés all over the place, but very badly done and strange shots that don't make any sense) and the script doesn't make ANY sense (the characters don't have any motivation to act like they do, even the main characters) and the acting is VERY bad.Like the previous commentator, I like watching bad movies when I'm bored, and I enjoy them. But this movie was just too awful to be even interesting..So, if you want to spend some time watching a cliché yet OK B-movie, go watch a cliché B-movie. Just don't waste your time on this one..
Could have been much better..
posted on 01 Jun 2009As the trailer shows, a woman and her boyfriend get into a car accident after which he is whisked away by unknown paramedics to an unknown hospital. From there the movie can be broken down in 2 major parts. For the first hour of the movie she struggles to find where he's being held and some haunting memories of hers are alluded to. The rest of the movie is comprised of her having to face her dark past if she wants to save her boyfriend from an uncertain fate. I say uncertain because the immediate danger to him is never made clear. The whole movie lacks the sense of desperation and urgency that horror movies depend on. It really felt like everyone involved was merely going through the motions in front of the camera. I never got attached to any of the characters. There is a twist at the end that should invoke an emotional response from the viewer but I felt nothing. The direction and camera work is lackluster, as is the make-up and special effects. The entire thing has a made for TV feeling attached to it, which isn't surprising given the cast. There are plenty of moments where the viewer is supposed to jump out of their seat but they are executed so poorly that I found myself looking at the flaws in the make-up and totally detached from the story. Believe me though, this isn't the worst movie ever made. I'd call it a good idea in a mediocre movie. You won't hate yourself for watching it, but there's plenty of better movies to watch first. Oh, and I love nudity as much as any other man but the one nude scene in the movie is so out of place I actually wish it had been taken out.5/10 -- Mediocre
A decent yet unmemorable film
posted on 18 May 2009Overall this wasn't a horrible film, but wasn't overly impressive either. This film had some interesting parts and ideas to it. The demons were done quite nicely. It kinda reminded me of a badly made Stephen King made for TV movie. I enjoyed the actors in this film, though not real sure what Jerry O'Connell was thinking when he signed on to this movie, he's much better as a comic actor such as in "Kangaroo Jack". There was several scenes where i'm not quite sure what the director was thinking when he added them other then he just wanted to get some T&A included in the film. It wasn't overly scary, my 4 year old son watched it and didn't blink an eye if that tells you anything. It is however worth watching if your bored and have nothing else to do or watch, just don't have high expectations for the film and you'll enjoy it.
Yuck!!!!
posted on 20 Apr 2009Absolutely ghastly! I'd rather poke my eye out with a stick than watch this abomination again.The plot is so formulaic-a 5 year old child could figure it out before the first half hour.The acting was terrible; Ben Stiller should have locked his wife in a closet to prevent her from showing up on the set. The "actresses" who played the young, nubile nurses belong in a porno film. As a matter of fact, the entire film reminded me of porn. Seriously!If I'd seen this in a theater, I would have walked out. Thank god I didn't spend money to see it or I would have been seriously upset! Don't waste your time!
awful.....just awful
posted on 10 Apr 2009the worst movie i have ever seen.....everything about it really sucked...i don't even know...how could someone think of a plot like this.....honestly..... and for the one's that want to see it.....i strongly recommend......not to waist their time.... ....vampire girls that feed with the blood of innocent people that are brought in to the hospital.....monsters...that cause not fear but laughter.. ...little blond 8 years old girl...that seem to appear in almost every horror movie..... this movie has really nothing to offer to the audience...and the acting...damn.....where did they found those actors..???..definitely not a must seen movie...
A good horror story.
posted on 31 Dec 2008A young school teacher & her boyfriend gets into a horrible accident on the road & the boyfriend is whisked away into an ambulance, however when she goes to see him, she discovers that he hasn't been taken to any of the local hospitals, with the help of a a stranger who's sister was also involved in the crash & disappeared, she attempts to solves the mystery with the help of a little girl who knows how to get to the boyfriend, but it won't be easy as the supernatural forces keep making their appearance in her life trying to stop her & her boyfriend who is also trying to escape this place, discovers thee's no way out & the nurses & doctors happen to like the sight of blood just a little to much...ROOM 6 has received mostly cold reviews from fans & critics, I on the other hand disagree with them, while ROOM 6 may not be the worlds best horror film, it's simply a low budget horror tale that sets out to entertain you & nothing more. Personally I think many fans & critics were expecting far to much out of it, because there's a few creepy images & neat special effects on hand here, the direction is good, the actors make their characters believable & while it may not hold up towards the last five minutes, ROOM 6 makes for some fairly entertaining viewing & is certainly not the worst horror film out there as many fans & critics are saying it is, I ought to know, I've seen HOWLING: NEW MOON RISING/NIGHT OF HORROR/BLOOD THIRST: LEGEND OF THE CHUPACABRAS & others. Worth a look, again don't expect something that will knock your socks off & you should be mildly entertained.*** stars
You don't want to know...you don't want to go to Room 6.
posted on 25 Dec 2008More money was spent on the DVD case. Obviously low budget; ridiculous story; no acting; terrible make-up...need more? Following a traffic accident, a young woman(Christine Taylor)tries to get her fiancé(Shane Brolly)out of a demonic hospital that is located somewhere between reality and who knows where. The staff is made up of devil worshipers and vampire-like nurses. Looking for credibility I assume, Jerry O'Connell is cast as another person searching for a lost soul in this dark and too repetitive contrivance. The last fifteen minutes is filled with ghoulish patients staggering through the hospital halls... more of a headache than frightening. Also appearing are: Katie Lohmann, Ellie Cornell, Stacy Fuson and Marshall Bell.
Heavy Breathing spoils bad acting
posted on 09 Nov 2008This is one of those awful horror movies where everyone was able to laugh on several occasions. Except for the depressing ending, the rest of the movie would have been right up there with Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Jerry O'Connell never disappoints, as his performances are always flat and unconvincing. How does he keep getting work? He seems to be reading his lines right off the teleprompter. Marcia Brady (Christine Taylor-Stiller) seems to spend the entire movie moaning and breathing heavy. She also has turned curling her lip into an art form. Move over, Sylvester Stallone! Aside from the lip-curling, moaning, and heavy-breathing, Mrs. Stiller does not do much. Some of the silliest scenes involve (they are almost like comedy skits) Marcia and Jerry walking into public places where people look normal but then suddenly these folks give them a double-take with a demonic face (remember Buffy The Vampire Slayer?) and a curling, forked, snake tongue. I saw this movie with some friends, and we were laughing hard every time. Considering that O'Connell and Taylor both have some background in comedy, I wonder if they weren't playing this movie for laughs? This would have been a decent horror-comedy movie, except it got too serious at the end.
If you have something better to do, like getting an ingrown toenail cut, by all means do the toe.
posted on 10 Sep 2008Room 6... maybe one of the other rooms would have been more interesting, but this one isn't even bad enough to be entertaining! If you must watch it, just watch the first and last fifteen minutes and you'll get the plot. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone did 1/2 hour shows very successfully for years, and before the invention of many special effects we take for granted today. Even the characters who are supposed to be ghoulish and frightening seem to be walking through their parts. The end is anticlimactic. Most times a bad horror film can get away without a message, but with the overused storyline, terrible acting, lack of special effects, and awful directing; there should have been one. Here's my suggestion for the message: Room 6 should be missed at all costs; however, could it prove useful to cinema students as a lesson of what not to do.
Keep the door of Room 6 locked.
posted on 06 Sep 2008This movie is what's wrong with horror films today. It opens by showing our "hero" laying on a gurney in the operating room with her eyes wide open, trying to alert the surgical team that she is awake, though she can't speak or move. That's a good start, but the movie only goes downhill from there. The main character is a female teacher with an immense (and unexplained) fear of hospitals. As her boyfriend takes her to work one morning, they're in a car accident where he injures his leg. An ambulance comes and takes him to the hospital, but the paramedics don't tell her which one they're taking him to. She begins seeing strange faces everywhere she turns, something like those in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." She must confront her fear and locate him because she's certain something very bad is happening. The movie appears to be one that was about halfway through being made when they realized that they didn't have any kind of reasonable (in horror movie reasoning) ending, so they went ahead and ended it as quickly as possible with a cliché you've probably seen many times if you are a fan of the genre. The effects are fairly well done in most cases, but nothing you haven't seen elsewhere. Go ahead and look in another room, because what's locked behind the door of Room 6 isn't worth knowing.
A nifty supernatural horror mood piece
posted on 04 Sep 2008Troubled young schoolteacher Amy Roberts (a sound and sympathetic performance by the lovely Christine Taylor) and her nice fiancé Nick (likable Shane Bolly) get into a car accident. Nick gets whisked away to a nearby hospital. Amy tries to find Nick to no avail. Assisted by the friendly Lucas Dylan (an appealing turn by Jerry O'Connell), Amy discovers that Nick was taken to a mysterious hospital called St. Rosemary's that burned down a long time ago. Can Amy and Lucas save Nick from this hellish place? Director/co-writer Mike Hurst relates the compellingly vague and spooky premise at a deliberate pace and does an expert job of gradually building a genuinely eerie, unsettling and disorienting atmosphere which becomes more increasingly freaky and nightmarish as the narrative progresses towards its nerve-jangling conclusion. The fine acting from a capable cast helps a lot: Taylor and Bolly make for engaging leads, O'Connell does well in a change-of-pace straight role, plus there's excellent support from Chloe Moretz as helpful little girl Melissa Newman, Mary Pat Gleason as the stern, fearsome Nurse Holiday, Ellie Cornell as Melissa's scruffy white trash mother Sarah, Kane Hodder as a nasty, menacing homeless guy, Lisa Ann Walter as the mean, sarcastic Sergeant Burch, and Marshall Bell as Amy's sickly dad. Raymond Stella's slick, shadowy cinematography, Joe Kraemer's shivery score, and the clammy, claustrophobic hospital setting all further enhance the flesh-crawling weirded-out mood. Moreover, the resolution at the very end is surprisingly poignant. A pleasingly creepy fright feature.
So Bad It Scared Me!
posted on 05 Aug 2008OK, someone help me with this one. In this day and age, with the technology and acting talent we have, how can movies like this still hit the streets? This attempt at movie-making is a classic example of why there should be some formal rating standard for movies in order to scrap them before they are released on an unsuspecting public. A public who pays good money and are then fed this complete and utter drivel. Did the makers of this swill honestly think they were onto something good? I do not think there is a single aspect of this movie that falls under the heading of either "skill", "talent", or "professionalism". I have never seen such amateurish, stilted and wooden acting, such a lame, predictable story, or such misplaced characters who seem to spend their entire time waiting for prompts. Simply a terrible and diabolically shameful attempt at making a movie under the guise that it will somehow entertain an audience. Watch it for novelty value and to see that there are still amateurs loose in the film world. A full ZERO out of ten. If the makers of this crud read this, guys, please, please, PLEASE do not EVER give up your day jobs! Many of us like B movies, but when did Z-movies come out?
Make it stop!!! Please!!!
posted on 12 Jul 2008OMG! I'm gonna make it quick: 99% of the movie is Amy(Christine Taylor) screaming(very annoying). Her acting(Christine Taylor's) is so bad that I kept having the feeling to fast-forward the film just to see how it ended. Also the running scenes with Amy were more like a silly kind of dance. Her running scenes, along with the father-daughter's scene were the worst scenes i have ever seen on a movie(I'm not kidding). Well, I guess the monster make-up wasn't so bad although it looked like they stole them from other movies(That were obviously better than this one). The best scene so far was the one where the nurses make-out(REALLY HOT), but it still doesn't make-up for watching 90 minutes more of the film. Overall, i suggest you save your time and watch any other movie.
Is It Over Yet?
posted on 12 Jun 2008I am a huge movie fan, I really am, but this movie gives every film school apprentice hope. Hope in a sense that you can graduate from college and guess what, make the most idiotic movie ever and still get paid. I gave this movie a chance; I sat through a barrage of clichés I didn't know existed and incredibly bad acting by two actors (Jerry O'Connell and Christine Taylor) I admire and respect. It almost seems like this movie was ploy to make money, you know, throw in a few credible stars in the mix and voilà, Money in the bank. Somebody failed to inform the production crew that the movie made no sense; I was so enthusiastic to find out why in hell Amy's world had gone haywire, but because of the lack of any character development, viewers were unable to know why Jerry O'Connell's character (Lucas) was so deeply involved in the script. For a while there I felt he was the primary villain but, oh well just another deformed character with awful makeup on. This movie was unbelievably predictable; it was obvious (to me at least) that first of all, Lucas was a baddie and secondly, I was going to be unhappy with the way the movie ended. Just as I predicted, a final twist came into play and viewers are treated to the fact that three-quarters of the movie was a test of some sort and guess what, she dies. If you haven't seen this movie, by it's end you will be so bewildered by the plot that all you'll be able to say is, "Although the acting was god-awful and the scenes although not intended to be funny were completely laughable (due to the atrocious acting and in actuality the total production of the movie), it was moderately enjoyable for the first 85 minutes and as for the last 10, it felt like someone grabbed a knife and repeatedly punctured a balloon that was already being deflated. Disappointing in every sense of the word, I have no other adjectives to describe this "movie". 2 out of 10, nobody deserves to watch this movie in its entirety.
Had Potential
posted on 01 May 2008A woman with a pathological fear of hospitals is forced to confront her fears when her boyfriend is held prisoner in an evil hospital staffed by devil worshipers, including vampiric lesbian nurses, that burned down decades earlier. Sounds confusing, eh? Trust me, I simplified it. This film actually had a lot of potential. The budget was higher than the average straight-to-DVD flick and it showed on the screen. Decent sets. Decent performances from the actors. Adequate direction. And, in my opinion, very good make-up. Unfortunately, their were two problems: The story was unnecessarily convoluted, and it simply wasn't scary. This film was a one-trick-pony when it came to scares. Here's the simple recipe: A). Marcia Brady, ooops, I mean, Amy looks at someone. B). She looks away. C). She looks back and the person is now a demon who mutters a warning. D). She screams. It took tiresome after a while. However, let's be honest, that's pretty much the whole shtick for the J-horror trend too. (This is no less senseless than "The Grudge," which I found reasonably compelling the first time I saw it, but I don't think it sustained repeated viewings.) Overall, I'd say this film had the feel of one of minor 70's devil films like "The Sentinel." It held my interest, but it could have been so much better.
Watch Silent Hill instead
posted on 09 Apr 2008If you really feel like a female lead thriller/horror/scare film like this, see Silent Hill. It's not a great film either, but it's so far better than this that you at least won't feel like you've just wasted time and money.I don't understand how a film with such a completely simplistic story manages to get made. Apparently having a single idea is enough. There's no shortage of solid horror, thriller, and science fiction novels and short stories to base a film on instead of trying to force out an undeveloped idea.With rare exceptions, the acting doesn't help. And there are so many cliché scenes and visual settings that you really want the film to turn into something like Scary Movie or Final Destination where the characters just get creatively destroyed.Why a 2 instead of a 1? Purely technical. The film manages to stay on track and have a few real moments despite seeming completely artificial and like a high-school kid with lots of money and camera skills making a copy-cat film for class.
room 6
posted on 12 Mar 2008well i'm not quite actually sure about this one folks...... i think that they had a really good idea behind the movie, i liked the car crash scene, but the zombies , the way they looked well i've seen a lot better from other horror movies, the story well let's just say that it could have been better, i think the ending sucked. the main character was way too squeamish for my tastes. there are worse movies out there, except this one left the viewer, me,,, with more questions than answers, and i really don't care for a movie that does that. i did like the boiler room scenes i thought they were very stylish, and in the special features on the DVD, they mention that it was the same boiler room that was used in the original nightmare on elm st. so basically i've seen a lot better,, this movie basically deals with angels, demons, heaven , hell, and pergatory,, the part where something in her childhood happened to her when she was 12, about her father was brilliant ,, but not how they did it in the end i thought.
Useless, pointless, just plain stupid
posted on 13 Feb 2008Nough saidDon't waste your timeThe movie ,a part of it being without any acceptable story, was full of small but ridiculous mistakes anyone would notice even if he had no idea about hospitalsfirst, the nurses were placing the 5 cm needle perpendicular to the skin which was impossible do be done with out hitting the bone or injuring the deep arteries, the needle should be as horizontal as possible the reach the vein second, the nurse after taking the needle full of blood , she turns around , changes the angle and there it is, emptythird, any drug causing muscle paralysis should paralyze the respiratory muscles as well , causing death in less than 3 minute without artificial helpand lastly , what's with the abdominal incision? are they going to drink his gall bladder or something , ridiculous.even the nude scene with the nurses, so pathetic , they go "Oh , we have nothing to show in our stupid movie , so let's show some tits"trust me, if you have high blood pressure , you do not want to see this movie
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Great ending to an okay film
posted on 04 Aug 2009"Room 6" is a halfway decent psychological horror film.**SPOILERS**Trying to live through a series of nightmares, Amy, (Christine Taylor) and her fiancée Nick, (Shane Brolly) are involved in an accident with Luke, (Jerry O'Connell) and Nick gets taken to a hospital. In the confusion, she never learns the exact hospital. When Luke admits the same about him, they begin to cower the city looking for them but no one believes their story. As she starts to experience weird visions and flashes about the experience, she becomes terrified that something has happened to him, and after receiving some addition guidance, she has to put her fears of hospitals aside to rescue him before a group of demons get to him.The Good News: Frankly, the only thing worthwhile about the whole film is the ending. The hospital itself is incredibly creepy and it gives off a feeling of immense dread. The lowly flickering lights, the long hallways going off into the distance and so many other items that make it creepy. There is a huge amount of one-shot scenes that are mainly used to creep out which work incredibly well. Naming them off would give away the film, but know that just about every single one of those scenes work beautifully. There isn't a single one that fail, and that's a rare accomplishment. They're all pretty clichéd, nonetheless, yet they're all quite jump-worthy scenes. Mixed these together inside a near non-stop pace filled with tons of action and it becomes extraordinarily better. From the chases to the jump scenes to the previous knowledge of what's going on through the film that leads up to it. There's hard to pick one chase here that stands out among the tons of them in the scene, and it really gets the energy up. The make-up effects and gore on display is certainly acceptable, even if we're only able to really get fleeting shots of them. There's a couple of little scenes here and there that work, but it's mostly the ending that works he most.The Bad News: Outside of the ending, there isn't a whole lot else here to really like. The beginning of the film is criminally slow and really doesn't feature a whole lot. It's mostly just a repeated series of one character talking away while getting a quick shot of a demonic figure trying to be scary. Not only doesn't it work, but after the tenth or so experience of that same scene happening, a real sense of despair set in. It keeps repeating, not offering anything new, over and over again and that's a real downfall. There's plenty of opportunities for that to offer up something good, but then it just keeps repeating and it gets tiresome. That in itself makes the first hour to it really hard to stomach. It's not only exhausting waiting for something new to happen, it's also criminally boring. Beyond the endless repetition of scenes, it's a painfully boring detective story. There's not much about it's that all that good, other than a few novel scenes, but it's pretty slow and very uninteresting. There isn't much more to say about it, it wasn't all that spectacular until the end.The Final Verdict: It takes a long time to get going, but when it does, it's incredibly on. The slow build-up is actually used for a great advantage of that rule and comes up with some good things thrown in. It'll get better as it goes along, so give it a shot.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and Brief full Nudity