The Corridor (2012)

To me, this movie is perfection.

One of my all time favorites.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Well, definitely liked the way that this movie started out. It had a bit of mystery with a kid psyching out, and with the illusion of a possible crime being committed. But, the film had a lot of slow moments to it, especially right after the first five minutes. It dragged a bit to long at times, and it bored me quickly. Once all of the friends got together out in the country, I felt like the characters were disjointed and acted more like they just met, rather than supposedly being best friends since high school. Fast forward to about the last 30 minutes of the film. This is where it just seemed a bit odd to me, and I didn't particularly like that portion of it. I felt that I knew where they were trying to go with it, but to me, it didn't quite get there. I could definitely identify with the "crazy" character, but again, what was reality and what wasn't? I don't know if parts of the film was supposed to be some sort of reconciliation, or was it mere punishment. I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't quite like it either.

When he discovers his mother has died from an overdose, Tyler Crawley (Stephen Chambers) suffers a bout of paranoid schizophrenia, attacking his concerned friends with a knife. After a stint in a mental institution, Tyler tries to get his life back on track with the help of medication, and agrees to spend a weekend with his pals in a remote snowbound cabin in an attempt to patch up their friendship.Then things start to get really weird…While Tyler is in the woods scattering his mother's ashes, he sees something inexplicable—a translucent box of energy. When he tries to tell his friends about the phenomena, they think he is having a relapse, but after dragging them out to the woods he is able to prove that he is telling the truth. The astounded group enter the box—which gradually grows in length to become a corridor—where they experience a collective consciousness that expands their senses but which also causes madness.The Corridor is every bit as confusing as it sounds, and with no satisfactory explanation of events, it is bound to irk many viewers. I wasn't all that bothered by the lack of exposition, being used to watching very strange movies that force the viewer to figure things out for themselves, but I was irritated by the dreary pace (nothing much of interest happens for the first half an hour), unlikeable characters and dull dialogue: successfully making it to the end of the film proved a major feat, despite a spot of gnarly violence at the hands of Everett Manette (James Gilbert), whose exposure to the bizarre expanding corridor of supernatural energy results in him becoming a homicidal maniac who garrottes a hunter, scalps one of his friends and crucifies another.On top of all the stupefying nonsense that supposedly passes for a plot, this film also boasts one of the most ridiculous hairstyles in horror: Matthew Amyotte plays Robert 'Bobcat' Comeau, who is supposedly going bald, but the actor has clearly had the top of his head shaved for the role, leaving a daft wisp of hair flapping about. It looks bloody silly, but is probably the most memorable thing about the whole film.3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for… you guessed it… Bobcat's Friar Tuck hair!

This is hands down one of the most inventive, creative and disturbing films I have seen in a very long time. It is in the same instant beautiful and repulsive. This film is an indescribable masterpiece -and I don't say that lightly.Don't miss out on this one if you are a Horror, Thriller or SciFi fan.It is truly rare these days to find a film that encompasses completely original ideas, so when a film such as The Corridor comes along it is a true surprise and refreshing blessing.All I can say to the Cast and Crew is...Thank You for something truly original!

I can't think of the last time I saw anything this bizarre. The script must surely have been written by a genuine schizophrenic - parts of it are too idiosyncratic to be anything other than autobiographical and other parts of it are too strange to have any meaning beyond the context to the author's own delusions. There must be an endless number of scripts out there that are equally weird, produced daily by schizophrenics in mental hospitals all over the world. Here is one however, that someone decided to straight up make into a movie. I mean I don't know that this was the case but that's certainly what it appears to be.There are however some genuinely scary moments amongst the bad acting and contrived scenes. For example - when the mother starts doing sign language on a loop on the video. The best bits of this movie (and they were very few) reminded me of "the Atrocity Exhibition". Check it out if you like unmitigated weirdness.