Death can cause childhood trauma that can stay with a person until
that person either overcomes it or it consumes them. This is what happens when a group of high
school friends get together for a retreat in order to help one of them get over
the unusual death of his mother which left him briefly in a hospital. Once at this cabin in the middle of nowhere
the men discover something unnatural just within the woods – an almost
invisible corridor. In The Corridor (2010) these four friends discover
an anomaly in the woods that causes minute changes in their physiology. It starts to drive them unstable and they are
willing to do whatever it takes to keep the corridor a secret from outsiders
but time is running out as the corridor grows larger consuming everything in
its path.
The people trapped in the cabin with an exterior force on the
other side of the door is something made infamous through The Evil Dead (1981) and for which has been often copied time and
time again. Although this is the set up
for this film it detours significantly as this corridor is harmless until the
four friends decide to keep it for themselves and then things start to take a
turn for the worse as each turn on others and themselves leading to a bloody
ending.
The film holds its own as a film about the mental breakdown of the
characters and the effects of true friendship against all odds. For some it may go too extreme in the third
act as there is a lot of bloodshed but fans of horror will not be
disappointed. If anything, horror fans
will be dismayed with the type of film this is as it starts off as a drama then
goes into sci-fi territory before ending on a very gory horror note. For those looking for something a little
different this might be right up your alley.
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