Five
friends are forced to confront their
darkest secrets when they are trapped
inside an abandoned building in central
London. For Eden Hall is a place of total
dereliction where light is banished and
evil now reigns. It is the hunting ground
of a master of deception who plays a
deadly game manipulating his victims’
deepest fears. To overcome his tricks,
they must discard the credible and put
their faith in the impossible. To
survive, they must first dare to believe.
It's really interesting
watching these types of films on what
could go on in an abandoned pysch ward
and wonder if it is haunted or not which
does show a nice effect to it. However,
the story seems to go around in circles
only having the odd horror feel to it and
it really doesn't explain itself too
much.
There's some good performances and nice
intensity here and there with what is
going on plus it almost had that Blair
Witch type of feel to it as well
as Session 9 too.
The film was almost original but just not
quite there yet and the plot was a bit
slow too.
We have some realistic going on's with
students as some act sarcastic and some
act insecure too which looked believeable
at young adults being the way they are
and not acting mature about stuff and
learning from their errors too. There's
also some good flashback sequences too
which kinda explains on what happened at
this abandoned building.
The acting is in good shape
as lead actress MyAnna Burning shows
a nice powerful performance showing nice
serious characteristics to her part in
the film as well as acting stern when
needed to plus speaking coldly too. She
showed great energy throughout all of
this.
Clayton Watson was perfect playing a
jack ass in the film with his sarcastic
actions and chauvinist remarks towards
others as he is a believeable asshole in
the flick and shows nice intensity too
during what's coming to him in the end.
Chris Jamba really presented himself
well as a street person of some sort
acting very creepy and a bit ghostly like
too with what he had to do. He showed a
nice wide eyed expression every time he
presented himself in a scene.
Mark Joseph showed a good insecurity
to his role and nice shyness too as a
pterified one through all that is
happening. He brought alot of
characteristics throughout the whole
story.
Nathalie Pownall was another good
one showing her sensitivity to what she
had to do for her part as well as showing
a good depressed mood too. She also had a
great tense expressions showing it all to
the screen. I found her role the most
effective in the story.
Toni Harmon knew
how to make many of the scene's dark and
creepy looking. There's many nice shots
on the cast walking through the hallways
of the abandoned psyche ward as well as
Clayton Watson calling out on what
he spotted in a room.
We see a good shot on Nathalie
Pownall walking down a dark hallway
and into a washroom with good nervous
looking expressions.
There's a good peaceful dialogue between MyAnna
Burning and Pownall having
a discussion the next day near a window
which looked natural.
We also spot the two of them having a
discussion taking a shower about suicides
of people as well as nice shots on both
of them talking. We spot a good blocking
moment with Pownall coming up to
Burning and kissing her with a
nice shocked reaction on Burning
and then Pownall getting upset
realising that she's straight and quickly
running out of the shower room.
We spot a good scene between Watson
fixing a pipe for the shower room with
him getting sleazy towards Mark
Joseph about sex and what action
he's got with women and Joseph
getting defensive and stuttering which
looked well done.
There's a good moment with MyAnna
Burning lifting her head up after
hearing some sounds walking
through a hallway after a poweroutage and
trying to find her friends.
There's a nice meeting with everyone
about to use a ouija board and Watson
getting fresh and then getting sarcastic
after finding out one of the women is a
lesbian when Pownall blurts out
she's a lesbian and then getting upset as
all of this was strongly performed.
We spot some good shots between Watson
and supporting actor Chris Jamba
acting ghostly and warning him jumping
out of nowhere and Watson being
prickly towards him.
We spot a good shot on Pownall
in a room hung with everyone running in
and reacting shocked freaking out.
There's many good shots on them trying to
run out of the asylum with close up shots
on them trying to open the doors and
realising they're locked as well as shots
on them stooping down and groaning on
what to do.
We have a nice close up shot on bit part
actress Chantelle De Carvalmo as
a mother acting haunting like and nasty
towards Watson with a nice close
up shot on him clenching his teeth and
screaming out.
We have many good camera takes on Burning,
Rhea Bailey and Joseph
going through a small corridor with their
light as well as Bailey alone
panting and acting scared on where to go
with a great surprise shot on a hand
grabbing her.
There's a good close up shot on both Burning
and Joseph reading a diary on
the going on's of the place and how to
escape.
We also spot a good shot on Joseph
entering a room with Burning
having her back turned and sitting on a
bed speaking coldly and then acting nasty
towards Joseph with him getting
physical and screeching making it almost
look psychologically directed in a good
fashion.
There's a good dark shot on Burning
quietly entering a room with Jamba hdidng
near a corner and then approaching her
creepily and then a nice close up shot on
her getting a knife and stabbing him.
We also spot many great close up shots on
Joseph, Watson, Pownall
and Bailey using the ouija board
to ask it questions and using a small
glass for the object to control it.
We have a good close up shot on Joseph
looking at his laptop with good upsetting
expressions after spotting what he sees.
There's perfect sharp low
toned violin playing with the screeching
violing music too. We hear some windy
sound effects in some of the spots
throughout the story too. There's the odd
banging sounds to top it all off which
was all composed by Kim Halliday.
We listen to a nice peacefully choir
singing during the closing credits too.
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