The Corridor

ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
The film opens with a ransacked home. Tyler(Stephen Chambers) has a knife and a cut on his cheek. His mother is lying dead in the hallway. Tyler hallucinates, hears voices, and sees images in the fuzz on the TV screen. His friends, who rescue him get attacked in the process.

After some time has passed and the credits (accompanied by folk music to give us that homey feel), Tyler and his 4 friends spend some time at a snowy A frame in the woods. The movie moves slow as we hear the mundane conversations used to establish character. Tyler is still struggling but is functional with medication being recently released from a mental health hospital. The guys drink, ride snowmobiles, watch recorded football games as Tyler scatters his mother's ashes.

Evan (James Gilbert) likes to smoke and drink. He is bored with the events and is the group's mild antagonist. Tyler has discovered a "corridor" and brings along the guys to verify its existence. The "corridor" looks fluid...

Indie Horror/Sci-Fi at its best.
I reviewed and programmed this movie last year where it was an official selection of the Nightmare Division of the Tulsa International Film Festival. I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical from the synopsis - "5 guys in a solitary cabin for a weekend" - sounded like everything that everyone is trying to make these days. But the beginning of this movie grabs you by the throat and then quickly establishes some fine characters. The story takes on science fiction aspects very well creating intrigue and paranoia, while horror aspects maintain solid footing with the realistic gore on the screen as well as the horror the aesthetics plant in the mind. All five actors did a tremendous job with one winning the "Best Actor Award" at the Tulsa IFF over some other well known actors. The story in intelligently written, production quality is very good (much better than most indie movies we review), and the director has done a fantastic job. While I gave this 5 stars, I don't much hold to...

A Long Walk.
The Corridor (Evan Kelly, 2010)

The Corridor is one of the most divisive movies I've ever seen. There is a small number of people who love it, and those who do really love it. And then there are the masses, who find it hateful. It's tempting to say that those who love it were the people who "got it" and those who didn't etc., and I think there is some of that, but I don't think that's completely it--I think some people who got it didn't realize they got it, and if they had, they would have said "wait, that's it?" This is, obviously, to the movie's detriment, but perhaps not as much as it should be--it's attempting to bend minds, and some minds just aren't built for being bent.

Plot: five high school friends--Tyler (Casino Jack's Stepen Chambers), Everett (Saw VI's James Gilbert), Chris (Ambulance Girl's David Patrick Flemming), Bobcat (Outlander's Matthew Amyotte), and Huggs (Hobo with a Shotgun's Glen Matthews)--get together for a memorial service for Tyler's...

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