Review: Ghost House Underground: Room 205 (DVD)

Part of the eight-movie horror-flick fest known as Ghost House Underground, Room 205 is a spooky film focusing on a haunted dorm room, and a Danish import brought to the US by Lion’s Gate Films.

The movie focuses on freshman Katerine, who tries to gain the acceptance of her peers while still getting her bearings as a new university student, but undergoes a hazing related to Room 2005’s reputation as a haunted dorm room.

Unfortunately, there’s more to the haunting of the room than pure legend and when a haunted mirror starts to show people who are about to die their fate rather than their reflection, Katerine’s dorm-mates begin to suspect her in the series of deaths that soon follow.

Paced like a slasher film, Room 205 contains a sexual assault scene that, while not overly graphic, may be disturbing to some viewers. The language is rather tame and the English dub job may not be seemless, but it’s quite a bit better than the dub-job on The Substitute. Atmospheric but a bit cliché, Room 205 is effective at building up a sense of suspense, yet suffers from being a bit predictable.