User Reviews

It could be a great short movie. There are scenes without purpose, there are scenes too long without a goal. Some questioning of the characters motives, while they are progressing.

The scenes themselves shot nicely. I liked the dark atmosphere, interesting character histories and how they are provided without too much details. I was expecting something, a climax to happen, which never happened.

I liked almost everything about this one. Except the fact that the mom just keeps doing everything else than try to save her daughter.

The first 40 or 50 minutes were really okay. After that it went in all directions. Like most others say. Good start. Weak ending.

Did the mom just forgot about her kid she sent to the stairwell? She seems like she didn't have any sense of urgency to get to her..did the old folks at the party have no phones, no family to call them to what was going? Script was bad, really bad!

This movie has potential. I don't normally write reviews on movies, but this one deserves one. First off, the mother, she is just horrible lol. She took so long to go to her daughter, I mean like seriously, going into the apartments, talking to other people, just doing everything BUT go save her daughter 😂 I started to feel bad for her cause of her husband but baby you will never leave your daughter alone for that long... another thing that annoyed me, is that she didn't tell NOT ONE SOUL what was going on... so you just scream "you need to get out of here" & that's it? Why not tell them there are sick & dead people on your hotel floor... this woman here... she was driving me crazy w/ her decisions. Other than that, it was a decent movie, too much scene of Naomi crawling on the floor though. I like the idea of the movie entirely, but it could've been better, but still good job though 🤙🏾

It's very hard escaping an abusive relationship. I unfortunately know from experience. You imagine horrible scenarios and awful things that could happen should you try to leave. The route to your escape (hallway, car, stairs, elevator) seems cluttered, dangerous and long. If you screw up, both you and your child may die (Naomi and unborn child) but you still must try. If you have a still and small voice encouraging you to still leave and "that your daughter needs you" (woman with daughter locked in random hotel room) then you're lucky. Downstairs, it was shown that there was no state emergency. This woman and daughter (albeit fictional) got away. Love this film.

I would just like to say...WHAT IN TARNATION? That was such a slow, frustrating and confusing movie. The mom was as slow as the plot. Took too long to do everything and basically constructed a picnic, stirred some kool-aid and started a marching band before she remembered she had a daughter in the midst of some sort of chaos. So many unanswered questions about this movie and just a waste of an hour. Were they zombies? Who was the man that seemingly caused the virus? Why the HELL didn't the lady inform the people on the lower floors about what was happening. She was just a complete disaster. I wish Naomi survived instead. 😀

The family is on a road trip. It is winter and snowing. The father is a domestic abuse to both the mother and child. A pregnant lady ran away from the abuser father. She gets sick while she's on the phone with her mother who wants her to come home. Her hands strat to shake. She drops the phone and crawl out to the hallway where other guest are sick. Father falls asleep. The mother tells the daughter that they are going on a road trip. She tells her daughter they daddy isn't coming. The mother tells the daughter go wait in the staircase where you and daddy went down before. Father Wakes up. Mother noticed something isn't right with daddy as she is packing her daughter's stuff. Father gets out of bed and tries getting to the mother. She locks herself in the bathroom. When she finally comes out the father is up against the wall and apologized to her. At the same time there is a man in one of the rooms taking to someone's on the phone. Saying it's done. Next is the hospitals and maybe the airports. Mother goes out into the hallway and sees all the sick people. Some man cuts the pregnancy lady's neck killing her. Mother finds daughter. And they live the hotel with pj's on the daughter and t-shirt and jeans on the mother. Daughter's leg is bleeding under her pj's. Mom starts the car. We never really find out why all these people are sick and dying. End of movie.

I agree with other reviews, the main character was ridiculously frustrating. Good acting, continuous bad decisions. The description is very misleading, no one is fighting to survive anything. One person crawling, one hobbling, everyone else laying there sick. There is so much that is unexplained. How is there a national threat on T. V. but everyone in the hotel is oblivious except the 3rd floor? Why did the little girl see and hear her daddy downstairs? Why did that woman have no urgency to get her daughter? Why did she go in that random room and have a slow conversation with what appears like no one or maybe herself? Why was everyone in the hall? No one thought to call on the phone for help? Why was everyone on that floor sick except mom and daughter? Why only that floor? Why did the guy that supposedly infected them think it would spread if no one makes it past the hall before dying? So many questions, no answers. I'd love to see a part two that goes into detail. It was a great idea, but should have been longer and more in depth with what the hell was happening.

Acting, storyline and plot is basically non existent. Horror label is non deserving. From the overly calm mom with a daughter all alone in an infected hotel to the girl for no real reason hearing her dead fathers voice off in the distance, this movie has no true plot or purpose for that matter.

The good: Amazingly swift virus that debilitates the infected super quickly. Not sure how it's spread; a very mysterious and man-made virus. Special effects are done fairly well and believable.

My favorite part is that this is at the very beginning of the spread. It literally took over and killed almost everyone in just 1 hallway of a hotel, with the potential to spread to the entire place and eventually outside.

The bad; Questionable characters. Yes the protagonist is very flawed, but you can't really blame her too much since she has been living with domestic violence for years. Two things that 1 star reviewers mention: The first - She left her child outside for so long! Well, she just found out that her husband is also physically abusing her daughter, and also she just watched said husband develop a really nasty zombie-like virus that just attacked her and then died a few minutes later. When she goes outside, she finds multiple people with the same virus, so of course she's in shock. She manages to find her daughter after all.

The second is how she just left with her daughter without telling the hotel guests what's going on. I agree this is a selfish thing to do, but keep in mind that you don't know if anyone else is in on this virus; how can one floor be completely insane and find another floor having a party. They also stopped all dialog and had everyone looking directly at you (I find that highly suspect).

The supernatural elements can be explained fairly easily. The ones that aren't showing symptoms but are seeing things are probably infected but haven't gone through the main phase yet (The Japanese lady imagined her mother in the hallway, confirming that one of the symptoms of the virus is seeing and hearing things that aren't there). Both the protagonist and her daughter were seeing things.

I wish they would make a sequel and answer many of the questions, but with such poor reviews are unlikely.

When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus -- yes, if you're looking for COVID-19 escapism, perhaps this is not your movie -- pregnant tourist Naomi (Yumiko Shaku, Lt. Akane Yashiro from 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S. O. S.) and Val (Carolina Bartczak) bond over more than just their bad marriages. They're also stuck in a hallway filled with victims, all to find Val's daughter Kelly and perhaps get through the horror.

Made as an ode to 70s and 80s horror -- obviously, this Canadian project that tells of an isolated building dealing with a disease within is going to get a Cronenberg association -- the guiding question behind this film was "What would happen if vaccines were created intentionally for purposes of government control and for the profit of the pharmaceutical industry, not necessarily to cure viruses?"

Director/co-writer Francesco Giannini first full-length feature shows a confidence many won't have five movies in. This is a claustrophobic and dark movie that just plain works.