Product Details

• Actors: Mira Wanting, Jon Lange, Steen Stig Lommer, Julie Ølgaard, Neel Rønholt
• Directors: Martin Barnewitz
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Danish
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: October 14, 2008
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001D262K6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,097 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Room 205" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A ghost story minus the scares, November 7, 2008

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Room 205 (DVD)

Along with The Substitute, Room 205 is a Danish import carrying the Ghost House Underground banner. Unlike The Substitute though, Room 205 is a tedious bore that fails to deliver, and ends up being a ghost story minus the scares. The gorgeous Neel Rønholt (who is a dead ringer for erotic scream queen Erin Brown, AKA Misty Mundae) stars as a newly moved in college student that soon learns the last inhabitant of her dorm room met a tragic and grisly demise. Her spirit is restless, and it isn't long before her mates start getting picked off one by one. It's nothing we haven't seen or heard before, but Room 205 at least starts out promising before getting caught up in mellowdrama. Adding insult to injury is the fact that Room 205 is just plain boring for almost 2/3's of its running time. Though it does get better during the last third of the film, Room 205 still ends up being a mostly boring disappointment. Still, you could always do much worse horror wise, and Room 205 is worth a look for ghost story fans, just don't expect too much out of it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Slow paced, but effective, October 9, 2011

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Nathan Christian (Pitcairn, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Room 205 (DVD)

This movie is worth a rental, at best. It is dubbed in English.

The minus part is the slow moving plot. It's in no hurry to get anywhere fast, and it will reveal it's secrets when it wants to. That took the two stars away for it in my opinion.

The plus side is the eerie photography and the atmosphere of dread. A lot of the scenes appear blurry and washed out, but it adds to the surreal eerie atmosphere. And when the ghost does appear, there are odd sounds with her that remind one of "The Grudge".

One of the leads actually steals the movie with her acting and just how convincingly mean she made her character.

it is worht a watch, it is a foreign dubbed film, and not of the usual pacing and photography of the American movies.

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow-Burning But Effective Horror, With A Different Kind Of Vibe, April 14, 2011

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Stephen B. O'Blenis (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Room 205 (DVD)

Room 205 (original Danish title - "Kollegiet") is set in a Copenhagen university where a local urban legend about a supposedly haunted dorm room, seems to become more than legend when a series of deaths start occuring in the dormitory in question. Despite being described on the cover as a "fast-moving slasher movie", it's really neither. (Not that there'd be anything wrong with it if there were.) Room 205 is more of a 'slow-burn' kind of dark ghost story, that takes a little while to really take off, but succeeds in building a very creepy, disturbing atmosphere.

It starts when new girl Katrine (Neel Ronholt) moves into the dorm. Much of the movie's subtext and subplotting involves the subtle and rather savage unspoken hieracrchy that occasionally rears its ugly head in academic settings, with its social pecking orders and sometimes quiet/sometimes overt conflicts. Katrine starts off on the wrong foot by accidentally getting on the bad side of the wrong people, and their campaign to drive her out of the dorm begins. At first it seems like just little things but it starts getting ugly. One of the pranks to scare her involves a mock assault patterened on the legend of Room 205, which seems to 'wake up' the ghost, and the college is plagued by a string of seemingly accidental deaths. All of which leads into uncovering the origin of the 'haunted room' legend and who and what the angry spirit really is.

Room 205 is completely different from other college-themed horror movies like Sorority Row and Black Christmas (Unrated Widescreen Edition) (both of which I loved, by the way). A much slower pace, a plot that smolders and creeps rather than jumps right out (at least most of the time), and the violence is less frequent but often very unsettling and cringe-inducing. I can't really think of a movie to compare it to. Maybe Red Rover / Heritage De Sang or Infection, but the stories and themes are completely different, just something about the 'vibes' in those movies are similar.

Random points - the visual style the movie is shot in is quite subdued and takes some getting used to, but ends up fitting the grim atmosphere quite well. On a non-grim note, one of the subplots of the movie features a slowly budding relationship between two of the characters, that's very sweet and highly effective.

Overall, Room 205 may be a bit Too slow for some tastes, but those who don't mind a slower pace and are open to a different kind of atmospheric horror movie should definately take a look.