Iron Doors (2010) 6/10

Starring : Axel Wedekind, Rungano Nyoni
Director : Stephen Manuel
Running Time : 81 mins

A nameless man (Wedekind) wakes up to find himself trapped in a concrete room with no obvious means of escape. At first believing his imprisonment to be part of an elaborate April Fool prank, he soon realises that those that have entrapped him may not be friendly when days start to pass...

This starts off feeling like a standard horror / thriller movie that could have easily turned into another instalment of Saw or Hostel if not for the out of left field ending. This progresses slowly and keeps the pacing at a minimum, with very little character development (in fact, very little characters!), but the unexplained ending makes you have to rethink everything that has gone before, perhaps even look for clues as the conclusion of the movie by watching it again. Sadly I don’t think this movie was clever enough to sustain the mystery if I were to watch it again.

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