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The ending is contradicted by the words of the horsemen. Recall the lady who said, "I keep seeing visions of my son in my arms and everything is burning." Recall also they say that if the family makes the choice, the apocalypse is averted.

Now we apply the logic. The only way the lady will have her son in her arms again is if the family makes the choice (she lives). The only way the apocalypse will happen is if they don't make the choice (she dies). Thus the contradiction.

A far better ending, consistent with the prediction, is that by making the choice they actually doom humanity because they show that we don't care about anything and are willing to murder each other at the words of strangers. By not making the choice, humanity shows love beats all. They should have chosen to put love first, and then as they're driving off they see the horsemen standing by the side of the road confirming they made the right choice.

3/10 for wasted potential. If you want to see a good show about horsemen watch Bojack instead.

This one had a lot going for it with the atmosphere. That's about where it leaves off.

It feels like there was a legit decent horror movie filmed on the same set, and when the professional actors left the set at night, this high school film troupe broke in and filmed their own movie.

It feels incomplete and bizarre. The characters act irrationally throughout. The monster(s) aren't explained and seem more of a plot device to advance the integration of a stepmom into her new family.

Specifically with the irrationality, it harped too much on the boneheadedness of the father, not listening to anything that was being said and being unrealistically skeptical.

The stepmom couldn't communicate clearly that there were multiple instances and evidences that would support her case.

The son seemed completely uninterested in living or defending the claims of the stepmom, and basically just waited around to be monster bait.

The stepmom left the son alone - multiple - times even after knowing that if left alone he would get snatched. Not very smart.

And then there's the monster(s). I say plural because there's a scene where the stepmom is talking to one downstairs and the other one is in the room with the kid.

Clearly there's more than one entity but at the end of the movie the two entities are merged into one shape shifting monster. Nothing wrong with that, but explain why it can be in two places at once.

And lastly, the big reveal is that Kim is actually a girl and the little boy is the monster. Which the stepmom had to drive however long away to figure out, when everyone was talking about a girl going missing from the get go. If she had not misgendered the entity it could have saved probably 45 minutes of screentime and she could have spent less time using the son as bait.

So if you like creepy sets, this is a decent one. But I wish I knew what the actual movie was that was filmed there because this ain't it.

I have long thought of creating an account to express my frustration with terrible movies and this one happened to be bad enough to motivate me to do it.

Usually when there's a movie this bad at least some of the reviews state the real reason why. Unfortunately the reviews were as bad as the movie in highlighting the main problem.

Most reviews talked about bad acting or the movie being boring or predictable. It wasn't. Those issues would have been a marked improvement.

Pros: This is not the worst movie ever made. The architecture is a great setting and you can appreciate the attempt at making the characters relatable. I felt interested in what was going to happen the entire way through.

Cons: Being on a meth fueled hallucinogenic rage is not the ideal state of mind to write a movie script.

The reality is this movie made absolutely no sense. And I'm not even talking about the characters. The movie itself was a mess of conflicting storylines from start to finish.

The room is clearly haunted. The hole in the wall is framed as the source of the haunting. It isn't, and the haunting extends past the room.

That's a rather big problem when your movie is titled after a room. They could have literally been in any room of the building and the story probably could have played out the same way.

Why is the basement suddenly and inexplicably part of the haunting? What is the source of the haunting? The hole? The window? The building? The ritual? The necklace? The murder? The fact that it's explained in the movie doesn't even help clear it up.

What are the powers of the haunting force? Where did the guy go who was stabbed? Why does the landlord not just drug them and sacrifice them instead of creeping around like an oversized oompah loompah?

Why does it matter if the being is released from the window? What are the consequences of the events that transpired? This movie had me asking why at literally every turn.

Which kept it from being boring. But it made it frustrating to watch. The rules of the haunting are not at all defined and events happen in absolutely haphazard manner.

I don't know how so many reviews said it was predictable when it was so incoherent nothing could have been foreseen. And not in a good way. Very much in a brain dying from lack of oxygen, playing out completely random non related images sort of way.

I wish the movie was boring. I wish it was predictable. I wish it made enough sense to be either. But it didn't, and it wasn't, and now you finally have a review telling the truth.

If coherence doesn't matter to you, I guess this is a decently filmed expose of why set lighting is important. But every single other flaw of the movie was overshadowed by a plot with bigger holes than the wall could ever hope to have.

It had so much potential, but the lack of logical events lands it a solid 2/10.