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December 16th - The Sleeping Room (2014)
Set in modern day Sussex, this is an interesting film about a young prostitute who discovers a hidden room in a Brighton brothel. A room full of antique celluloid projectors which allude to snuff movies and other horrors from the turn of the 20th century.
Coming across as very voyeuristic with it's scopes and two way mirrors allowing us to see a murky Gothic netherworld from the past, it also allowed the film to crawl out of the usual horror cliches and be it's own shadowy creature.
Having said that, The Sleeping Room reminded me of Neil Jordan's Byzantium from a couple of years prior in the way Brighton was depicted as a decaying husk. Being structured in it's pace and allowing the characters to breathe might mean some find the film slow going but all in all i rather enjoyed The Sleeping Room.
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