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What Lives in Room 214? | Average Guy Movie Review

After starring in his first big film, B-movie actor Cory King (Adam Joseph Turner) moves into a hotel for semi-successful actors, directors and producers. But the longer he stays there, the more he notices things around him have never been what they seemed. Forget the unreliable narrator. Here it's more a case of unreliable everything. With  What Lives in Room 214? , writer/director Brandon Rice clearly isn't interested in merely keeping you guessing. In fact, he blasts right past guessing as he shoots for full-on 'mind fuck'. Apologies for the language, but that really is the only way to convey what Rice is going for with this intense psychological horror. It is the type of movie that will play on your mind for days, as you endeavour to wrap your head around all that occurs in this plain-looking, yet somehow creepy hotel. All throughout the movie is loaded with suggestive imagery. Some of which might prove triggering - including some incredible makeup effects towards t...