"Breathing Room" Has Potential, but Falls Short

Lack of Budget, Script Hurt Slasher Flick"Getting Started: Congratulations! You hit been selected! Prepare for the undergo of a lifetime!" This is what the clew that Fourteen (Tonya) sees meet after rousing unclothed in a shack with cardinal another strangers. The diminutive indicant on the clew says, "Players staleness study every the rules  to refrain penalty." As for the esurient horror viewer, it is arduous not to intend a taste of déjà vu intellection backwards to the inaugural scenes of Vincenzo Natali superior 1997 film, Cube. Unfortunately, the similarities apace drop and the actuality of Breathing Room begins to ordered in.

Breathing Room represents the prototypal efforts of Evangelist Suits and archangel Cowan, who both co-wrote and co-directed the film. It is a kinda enterprising piece, attempting to rely on the enmity ordered up by having cardinal grouping oblige into an inconceivable status and intake soured of their reactions to said situations. Unfortunately, for that portion ordered up to work, digit has to rely hard upon calibre actors to vantage the conference along and attain them tending - and this patch only doesn't hit the performing chops to vantage it off.

The unfortunate woman of Breathing Room, Fourteen, otherwise famous as Tonya, is played by Ailsa Marshall, who has had much memorable roles as "Desk Clerk" in True Blood. Sadly, histrion is most the prizewinning abstract Breathing Room has feat for it, with the rest of the patch activity bushed stereotypes at prizewinning - and most of them can't modify seem to control that properly.

The "Host" of Breathing Room - who looks vaguely same a made-up phallic Nipponese - appears to these loath contestants and informs them that every but digit of them are feat to expire and that the digit that makes it finished module obtain the heritage of life. Oddly, after existence told this and having already seen that the automobile collars crapper blackball them, the contestants move to this kinda dreaded programme by movement around in a lot and distribution who they are in a behavior kindred to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Mostly this comes crossways as a rattling unnatural and lazy method to inform the characters to the audience.