
A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.... (Full plot summary below)
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A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
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| Movie MezzanineJake ColeThe surrealist result plays to Maddin's strengths as a master of densely aestheticized short films, as he crafts a lucid expression of his own feverish perspective on the movies that shaped his art. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyIn emulating the two-strip Technicolor process, it creates a look that’s scratchy and primitive, but also, through the peculiar alchemy of Maddin’s craft, eerily rich and dreamlike, with the depth of an oceanic abyss. |
| Slant MagazineCarson LundIts utter indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves it most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyDelightful and ingenious as much of this is on a moment-to-moment basis, it becomes somewhat wearying over the long haul. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chasea carnival of semiotics and cinematic sleight-of-hand that creates a hyper-reality that is more intense than actual reality, if only for its lack of anything as reassuring as linear storytelling |
| SciFiNowJonathan HatfullThe Forbidden Room is hard to explain but impossible to forget. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsA swirling, mutating apparition conjured from a crazed mind, this fluid and delirious film showcases a wealth of imagination as it drags us down through ever deeper, ever stranger layers of storytelling ... |
| MetroMatt PriggeLike a suitcase packed so tight the zipper won't even work, overflowing with every inspired idea Guy Maddin has had over a long interim. |
| The Arts DeskGraham FullerIf you're up for The Forbidden Room, it fulfills it's oneiric promise by leaving you with the vague impression that you dreamed it - and dreamed its dreams within dreams - even if you know you didn't. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloFor those attuned to Maddin’s goofy sense of humor, it’s easily the funniest movie he’s ever made—a series of several dozen comic shorts strung together on a ludicrous clothesline. The only downside is that the experience, at just shy of two hours, can be a trifle exhausting. |