Very disappointing...

the audience applauded

Highly Overrated But Still Good

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Far from a perfect movie, but it definitely has it's moments. It makes great use of the innate depressing creepiness of every older, crappy apartment building in the country. Every little detail reminds me of some place I've lived (hell, my current place even has a closet door in the hallway that keeps opening, with almost exactly the same wallpaper!) and they are lovingly shot to show them off in all their glory. They are perfectly realistic and in no way exaggerated either. The building definitely feels like a real home.Some of the dialogue felt pretty unnatural to me, but it definitely nails the uneasy feeling of moving into a new apartment. At it's best moments it reminds me of Dark Water, which it is probably heavily influenced by.

Another low budget picking in on the ghost story freakshow being delivered nowadays but sadly it wasn't my thing. Therefor it was too slow and there are conversations that are way too long and rather boring. Of course they had to add a child towards the story, you know the creepy one, that should be scary but for me it wasn't. Simply because the effects didn't work out for me. Things moving in a kitchen or fallen out of the cupboard, you know the kind of things but no, not for me.It's all the way to the end that it becomes a horror story but for me it was too late. I had to sit through a lot of conversations that sometimes didn't add a thing to the story and even clocking in under 90 minutes it was still a punish to watch it to the end. I do know what production was trying to deliver but sadly for me again, too late.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

So damn boring...heavy drugs couldn't put you to sleep like this film.first attempt. i fell asleep i took copious scribbled and barely legible notes, some still hard to interpret, possibly due to poor handwriting, possibly due to 2 serries and 4 dirty resin buckets consumed directly prior to screeening... anyway notes from first attempt shows some hope and promise when the film opens with a lovecraft quote..cool.. fade to black and then interior shot, some house witchcrafty looking Shiite about , a copy of book titled "witch's bible"..which witch? fade black flash forward, present day somebody put a rose on a tombstone. from what i gather nothing you see in this film has any real relevance to how the story place out and you can pretty much ignore everything. it's pretty crud. anyway, notes from first attempt "fair decent score so far""nicely filmed" "Oh wow somebody spoke, is this a foreign film? OK cool.." "HARD SUBS" "CREEPO IN HOTEL"- accompanied by terrible small biro sketch "oh grave flower lady lives in hotel, cool""6:00min in, will anything, something please ever happen?""ooh wow late night tooth brush buzzing and a lady walking in a reflection! cool!" And then apparently i fell asleep..next evening: So just now after a few dirty resin buckets and bit of benzohelp, we try again:second attempt notes: OK wow this is a mess, I've written in my boredom "drip drip drip" nearly every time a traps drips in this film because it is about as much fun as simply watching a tap drip anyway. maybe it's some kind of bull- spit symbolism that i missed but it symbolizes to me the utter boredom of the film. for the record I wrote "drip drip drip" at least ten times and considering that each tap drip scene is at least two and more often three or more drips, that is at least 20 -40+ times you will watch a dripping tap in the godawful borefest.Anyway, here's the remaining notes i took: "15-17 muhinh" - illegible (such a good idea this note taking thing)"their basement is upstairs?" - guess it's an attic basement.. "she lives alone - separated? - friends is visiting..""BRILLIANT QUOTE (nearly but not making film worthwhile) - 'Defective life. I demand a full refund.' making me think of this film..""Not creeping me out" "38 mins in, no wonder i fell asleep last time..""Oh! Creepy hands, behind a hanging sheet! Oh!""Worst guide-dog for the blind, ever.""GODDAMN 50 MINUTES? for what?"BORING BORING BORING"Well I made it through, and honestly it was torture. Sorry that this is more a review of my experience with the film, rather than the film itself, but rest assured this is probably the only entertainment we'll get from the movie anyway.

For a low budget ghost story, this was pretty decent. I thought Lanna Ohlsson did a terrific job in her role. The apartment building and attic provide a great creepy atmosphere.The story was pretty well done and left quite a bit for the viewer to interpret. There were a couple things where I would have liked explained a bit more, but over all it was pretty solid. I don't mind watching subtitled movies either.If you like the genre, give it a try. Don't expect anything ground breaking, but it's interesting and not a bad movie at all. I look forward to the next project by this director.