The Corridor (I) (2010) User Reviews

I'm giving the 6th positive review. :D

[Christine_Plymouth_Fury1958 · 6/10 · 6 April 2012]

This movie is more of an acquired taste, than anything else. You'll either love it for its refreshing take on this genre or hate it for making you feel left out.

The other reviews pretty much covered everything, so I'll make this short and simple: The story requires your undivided attention. If you miss a second of it, you may not "get" what it's all about.

The actors are actually very good. Surprised me, really, in their intensity. Their emotions were almost palpable.

My only "complaint" is that the "entity" itself had too little a role, and its appearance too subtle for cinematic effect.

Nevertheless, it's a movie I would recommend.

Definitely "Interesting"

[glennspillman · 6/10 · 13 February 2017]

Well, definitely liked the way that this movie started out. It had a bit of mystery with a kid psyching out, and with the illusion of a possible crime being committed. But, the film had a lot of slow moments to it, especially right after the first five minutes. It dragged a bit to long at times, and it bored me quickly. Once all of the friends got together out in the country, I felt like the characters were disjointed and acted more like they just met, rather than supposedly being best friends since high school. Fast forward to about the last 30 minutes of the film. This is where it just seemed a bit odd to me, and I didn't particularly like that portion of it. I felt that I knew where they were trying to go with it, but to me, it didn't quite get there. I could definitely identify with the "crazy" character, but again, what was reality and what wasn't? I don't know if parts of the film was supposed to be some sort of reconciliation, or was it mere punishment. I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't quite like it either.

Spoilers follow ...

[parry_na · 4/10 · 11 August 2017]

This is a curious film that seems to be about many things, at least initially. Tyler (Stephen Chambers) sees his mother dead on the landing of his family home. She has overdosed on pills apparently, and the realisation sends him on a nervous break-down. When his friends come round, he is hiding in a cupboard. When they try to help him, he attacks them with a knife.

A while later, Tyler has seemingly recovered, helped by a course of therapy. To build bridges, he and his friends agree to meet in a snowbound retreat for a 'boys' weekend'. They seem to be a tight group, and soon, Tyler is back at the heart of the friendship – only Everett (James Gilbert) seems to want to scupper things; he seems determined to ply him with alcohol, which is inadvisable given Tyler's course of medication.

Big lad Bobcat (Matthew Amyotte) sports a bald plate that is never, ever convincing. It is a curious directorial decision, but made so we can hear dialogue about baldness keeping him virile and 'having the kids to prove it' (which is an unknowing dig at Jim (Glenn Matthews), who is secretly impotent). All this spurs on further antagonism later.

So when Tyler, outside in the wastes alone, finds what appears to be a corridor in the middle of the woodland, he feels his sanity crumble. And yet he proves to be the only one who can see through the violent chaos that ensues between the group.

Sadly, at least for me, the latter half of the film dissolves into a trippy mesh of special effects and shouting. This would appear to be a logical progression from the enjoyably illogical events that lead up to it, but I found these developments less satisfactory, although Tyler's story at least achieves a sense of closure within the chaos.

Laughable in parts. Lazy, yet somehow tried too hard.

[suburbandit · 3/10 · 1 June 2013]

The Good: With the exception of one actor, the acting was generally believable. The cinematography was decent overall.

The Bad: A dragging 30-minute exposition that could have been accomplished in 5 minutes or less. This is a movie not a novel; don't dialog us to death. As time went on I felt my interest in the characters decrease exponentially which, I imagine, stood in opposition to the director's intent. Ultimately, however, it's difficult to tell exactly what the director was going for. Regardless, the exposition never took me anywhere emotionally, and that left me with a "who cares" feeling that persisted throughout the majority of the movie.

Character believability also had issues. Without giving too much away, I thought the characters' reactions to the corridor seemed unrealistic. However, I fault the script more than the actors for this. Arguably, though, their reactions could be attributed to the affects of the corridor itself, which would be consistent with the "plot." Nonetheless, it made for awkward viewing and I found myself silently begging the director, "get to the point."

Additionally, there are episodes of violence in this movie that were unpalatable. Mind you, I'm a horror fan and can tolerate a fair share of gore. It would be incorrect to call the violence "gratuitous," because I think the violence was necessary for the director to get where he wanted to go. The problem was, the place he went was not fun, exciting, new, or even that interesting.

The Ugly: The "hair" and makeup. I mean, wow. It's not often makeup has a hand in sinking a movie, but when you see the bald character in the beginning of the movie you will understand my point. It was so bad I think it skewed my impression of his acting ability. I've read others comment about the special effects. I didn't expect much in this area so it wasn't as big of a deal for me. If you're a stickler for good special effects, you might find yourself frustrated.

Overall this movie felt like a bumbled attempt to stitch Dreamcatcher and Donnie Darko together and call it "art" under the guise of a psychological thriller. The thing about psychological thrillers, however, is that you have to get the viewer psychologically invested. This is where The Corridor failed.

See it for the bald guy.

[BA_Harrison · 4/10 · 13 December 2014]

When he discovers his mother has died from an overdose, Tyler Crawley (Stephen Chambers) suffers a bout of paranoid schizophrenia, attacking his concerned friends with a knife. After a stint in a mental institution, Tyler tries to get his life back on track with the help of medication, and agrees to spend a weekend with his pals in a remote snowbound cabin in an attempt to patch up their friendship.

Then things start to get really weird…

While Tyler is in the woods scattering his mother's ashes, he sees something inexplicable—a translucent box of energy. When he tries to tell his friends about the phenomena, they think he is having a relapse, but after dragging them out to the woods he is able to prove that he is telling the truth. The astounded group enter the box—which gradually grows in length to become a corridor—where they experience a collective consciousness that expands their senses but which also causes madness.

The Corridor is every bit as confusing as it sounds, and with no satisfactory explanation of events, it is bound to irk many viewers. I wasn't all that bothered by the lack of exposition, being used to watching very strange movies that force the viewer to figure things out for themselves, but I was irritated by the dreary pace (nothing much of interest happens for the first half an hour), unlikeable characters and dull dialogue: successfully making it to the end of the film proved a major feat, despite a spot of gnarly violence at the hands of Everett Manette (James Gilbert), whose exposure to the bizarre expanding corridor of supernatural energy results in him becoming a homicidal maniac who garrottes a hunter, scalps one of his friends and crucifies another.

On top of all the stupefying nonsense that supposedly passes for a plot, this film also boasts one of the most ridiculous hairstyles in horror: Matthew Amyotte plays Robert 'Bobcat' Comeau, who is supposedly going bald, but the actor has clearly had the top of his head shaved for the role, leaving a daft wisp of hair flapping about. It looks bloody silly, but is probably the most memorable thing about the whole film.

3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for… you guessed it… Bobcat's Friar Tuck hair!

The cut price Bradley Cooper....

[FlashCallahan · 1/10 · 19 April 2013]

A group of high school friends reunite years later for a weekend of partying and catching up on old times.

Isolated deep in the snow covered forest, they stumble upon a mysterious corridor of light. Like a drug, the corridor's energy consumes them, driving them to the point of madness.

One by one, they turn on each other, taking their evil to the next level. Mayhem leads to murder as they race to outlast each other, and the corridor's supernatural powers.....

Really don't believe the positive reviews on this site for this movie, they are plants from the studio, see their profile and you'll see that they have only written the one review, these are for the 10 ratings.

This film is the pits, and there isn't one redeeming feature to it. As soon as the group reached the hut, I thought we would be treated to some kind of cut price Dreamcatcher. It was late at night and I just wanted to watch something throwaway and fun.

It's a horrible piece of film from beginning to end, and the acting doesn't help either. We get the victim who sleeps in the bath, a guy who obviously shaved his head for the role, a guy who is camper than a row of tents, and then, wow, the worst thing about this, discount Bradley Cooper.

He is so bad in this, that it has to be seen to be believed. One minute he's fine. And the next he's totally bonkers. I know this is part of the narrative, but the way he turns is just bad, and feels awkward.

So the rest of the film consists of the boys walking down the titular place and getting nosebleeds.

It's not scary, funny, or even rubbish in a camp sort of way.

A bad movie in every aspect of the word.

tripped out sci fi horror

[simeonjeppsen · 7/10 · 6 April 2012]

Almost didn't see this one because of the horrible reviews I kept seeing. After watching I realized that I was entertained. The nay-sayers on this one either don't like horror, or don't like sci-fi. If your one who obsessively scans for plot holes, and constantly pointing out the this would never happen in real life, etc, etc, you probably shouldn't watch this movie. In fact you probably shouldn't watch most movies because none of them will ever stand up to your standards as movie are in fact not real life at all. Final thoughts: if you're into tripped out sci fi horror you might like this movie.

Lovely yours, Simeon

Don't even watch this

[lagudafuad · 2/10 · 6 April 2012]

Once in a while, we decide to give a horror B movie flick a twirl.

Once in a blue moon, you get your excitement worth, and most of the times you make a decision not to try it again, I hope I can leave up to that decision.

If you are reading this, then the possibility is that you have either seen it or planning to, if you have seen this and you think you just saw a movie that is cool; well, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

My opinion is "what was I thinking…?" This movie lacks all the fun a movie should have and all the reason a movie should be made, acting was okay though, I must admit.

But the idea that a corridor like passage in the snowy woods can make you connect to things that you never understood, and then send you down the path of insanity came up to the mind of someone and he wrote this! Beats me.

It just escapes all my reasoning that a human being wrote this, a studio picked it up and got someone to direct it. The movie is tagged Horror, trust me i didn't even blink.

All in all, if you have not gotten the idea before now that I don't like nor recommend this movie, then maybe you should read this review again, slowly, because it is better than the movie itself (the review that is).

MisCatagorized Movie Has Lead To Unfair Low Reviews!

[tdwillis-26273 · 7/10 · 6 August 2017]

This movie is not for hard core horror or sci fi fans.

This is not your typical horror/sci-fi, as evidenced by some reviewers complaining that this movie was "boring". I have to disagree! It wasn't boring to me, but it isn't really a horror/sci fi either.

As for me, I appreciate and like a story that takes time to allow us to get to know the characters and has a slow burn while increasing tension.

The acting was very well done. And I grew to like and enjoy this group of friends. This story had a Stephan King, feel, to it for me. (His earlier works) I believe this was more of a drama with supernatural flavors, rather then any other category. (There was a bit of blood and violence at the end. Just not much)

The sci fi part of it was realistically based and was simply but effectively portrayed. It made me really think about possibilities!! It is a very well done movie, just put into wrong categories. Reviewers are expecting different genras. Thus, IMO, the lower ratings.

With-in 40 minutes of the movie, we have a solid foundation of the characters and an indication of what the main character is experiencing. And the pace sped up from there.

I thought it was a worthy watch, and recommend it to viewers who don't need a lot of action or gore to be interested and entertained.

Intriguing but too puzzling for its own good.

[The_Dead_See · 5/10 · 19 August 2012]

In a nutshell, four friends go into the woods, discover a strange, possibly alien artifact, and then go mental. Not much else to it. You'll be left scratching your head as to what was supposed to have happened, or you'll get fed up and quit halfway through.

But before you think I'm just gonna slag this film off, let me say this: while I'm not satisfied, I don't feel like I completely wasted my time with TC either. There are some *really* intriguing themes put forth, even if they are never fully explored - the one that fascinates me the most is the idea of an entity that seeks to create a "complete" connection between minds - a world-wide-web of minds in a way. It's a theme I've never really seen in a movie before, and it roams around the edges of a quite disturbing question: are we better off in our disconnected, selfish, walled-in state of being? Is that, in fact, what makes us human? It's something I'm going to be thinking about for quite a few days hence.

For a low budget indie, you get a competent package here. Slow burn atmosphere, some pretty decent characterization with believable baggage and backstory, commendable acting, average but passable direction, and even the few special effects are subtle enough to not look ridiculous on such a low budget.

It's such a pity they went for the vague, subjectively interpretive version of the story. If you're pretentious enough, you might like that in a movie, but me - I call it a cop out. It means you were either too lazy to weave a meaningful narrative, or you just lacked the talent. If this film had taken all the same elements and themes and woven a meaningful story from them, it could have been a truly memorable experience. 5/10

The real terror in The Corridor is more subversive than the obvious antagonist...

[info-347-916579 · 9/10 · 17 April 2012]

The Corridor is an interesting film as horror films go. Even as a small film it is undeniable that it is a creature of ambitious efforts. Fortunately, these efforts pay off to the tune of delivering the audience a disturbing and rare portrayal of what happens when the extraordinary brings out the unusual and ultimately the worst in a group of friends whose circle is dangerously close to splintering from very real pressures of the earthly kind.

The Corridor follows 5 men whose boyhood friendships have persisted into adulthood and who individually are still struggling to find their places in the grown-up world. Their roles are further questioned when a member of the group, Tyler (Stephen Chambers), loses his mother under suspicious circumstances that leaves Chris (David Patrick Fleming) injured and questioning the sanity of his life-long friend.

In an effort to reconnect and help Tyler in the emotionally grueling process of laying his mother's ashes to rest, the 5 men decide to plan a boys' retreat to the cabin they spent so much time in in their youths. Tyler, grappling with his dementia (an aftershock of the ordeal with his mother) makes a discovery in the woods that will threaten the sanity and the lives of the rest of the group.

The real terror in The Corridor is more subversive than the obvious antagonist and the depth of the film's themes skirt on the edges of such cult favorites as Fight Club, Donnie Darko and some of Lynch's more surreal efforts. The threat isn't so much the enigmatic force in the woods as it is the enigma that is silently killing the group from the inside: Who are you when you lack purpose? How do we define ourselves in a world that denies us definition? It is the the corridor itself that empowers the group and seems only to magnify their own personal problems into full blown psychosis.

Although this might seem a little heady for the casual watcher, TC speaks to those of us who saw our role models revealed as villains, saw our fathers too humanized to remain out heroes and ultimately left us in a world without warrior poets looking forward to jobs we despise and positions in life that rarely treat us with any real moments of fulfillment. It is this alarmingly emotional character study of the group that elevates the Corridor to a film that actually surpasses its intent. For the horror fan The Corridor delivers some truly disturbing scenes of torture and madness driven degradation that sticks with you long after the credits begin to roll. It is in these moments that we see a group of actors that have struck their rhythm and deliver on all levels of the script, from the intense loss and longing to the stark insanity that characterizes the latter half of the picture. Director Evan Kelly has hit the ground running and I for one am eagerly looking forward to his next effort.

Highly recommended.

woodsy horror with a sci-fi twist.

[rabbitpack · 6/10 · 19 September 2019]

Let's cut to the chase; this movie is a half/half, depending on who you are. while the shots and camera work amazed me, some acting and makeup made me want to laugh. the ending wasn't my favorite, mostly because the sci-fi genre just doesn't stick with me.

the initial opening was decent, save a underrated reaction to a knife being driven straight through someone's hand. i understand that the knife could have destroyed the guy's hand nerves (a proven point later in the movie, where he explains that his psychical therapy was finished), but there could have been more of a reaction then huddling in a corner and staring at it.

after the opening, i was introduced to the characters years later, with beautiful winter shots and what i could assume was a indie folk song (which i enjoyed, as a fan of hozier and oliver daldry). the costumes and makeup were, for the most part, believable with a forest-town feel. except for bobcat's hair. sure, men may lose hair with age but ... are you kidding?

as the story progresses, i find myself more and more interested, lured in by the dark, winter aesthetic and the point of slowly losing your sanity due to an outside entity. the torture scene(s) were amazing, and my favorite part was probably when tyler was locked into the bathroom while bobcat was strung up on the wall like a dollar-store jesus motif.

however, when the movie came to the climax, and formally introduced the entity, i wanted to shut the movie off and go about my day. it was, in all honesty, stupid. watching one of the characters speed across the forest at the speed of light was unnatural (yes, i know it's supposed to be like this, but come on!), and almost made me laugh at how silly it was. the end was sub-par, made little sense, and left much to desire. the only good part of the ending was the sole living friend, stumbling through the forest under an iron-gray sky.

if you're in the mood for a indie horror flick with a dash of a strange, sci-fi twist, this might be your movie! be prepared for some faults (which all movies have), but an overall good movie, and a decent addition to the horror genre.

Never judge a DVD by its cover

[bowmanblue · 4/10 · 16 December 2014]

Otherwise you might start watching The Corridor. The front cover looks genuinely well-made, with a real creepy atmosphere. How wrong it can be. Despite the intriguing visual art, the film is pretty dull.

It plays out like Stephen King's 'Dreamcatcher,' only not as good (and Dreamcatcher was pretty maligned!). Four (or was if five?) friends go to a mountain cabin to bond (or something, it doesn't really matter). There, one of them starts finding a wibbly-wobbly area of the surrounding woods that looks nothing like a corridor, yet that's what they call it. This wibbly-wobbly bit gives them all nosebleeds. Carnage follows.

However, what little carnage there is (and one particularly impressive gore scene) comes woefully too late. The characters are simply too dull to care about, which is a shame, as the actors do a decent job of portraying them (if you can excuse the worst 'bald' man's head ever to hit the screen).

The acting is not the problem, it's just the flow. The first two thirds are basically the guys sitting around discussing their problems. Most people will have already condemned the film before it kicks off. Then, when it finally gets going, you may enjoy the final third, but it's a hell of a long road to travel just for the pay-off.

If you liked Dreamcatcher, stick to it. If you didn't, you probably won't like this either!

Total rubbish from beginning to end

[doorsscorpywag · 1/10 · 5 April 2012]

Don't be fooled by the 5 positive reviews here. Some written by people who have only one opinion on IMDb, this film, which is always suspicious. This film is rubbish. Another badly acted badly written load of old rubbish where some weird phenomenon that is not explained in any way allows some guys to go mad and mutilate each other so it can claim to be a horror film. This one has some light which appears for no discernible reason other than to tie in with the pitiful opening scene and allows the six poor actors to be in the place they are all in via some evidence that appears on a video mysteriously. What it is and why it's there is never explained as that would probably have meant employing a writer.

Character development ...nil!

Acting...minimal!

Script...there isn't one really!

Special effects...it's some light!

Ending ...a joke!

Opening scene....pitiful!

Stuff in the middle....boring and nonsensical!

Don't waste your time even if you are looking for the so bad it's good grenre as this is just bad.

Boring screenplay leads slowly to a pointless conclusion.

[suite92 · 4/10 · 8 January 2014]

Five young men (not teenagers) get together for a retreat in the woods. It's in snow country, and there is a lot of snow. That's good for snowball fights, snow angels, yelling for the sake of yelling, and yellow snow. Okay, so they are older, bigger, stronger, and more accomplished than teens, but still exhibit some of the same behaviours.

Tyler is mentally disturbed, in that he witnessed his mother die from overdose, and just might have had something to do with the dying part. Then he spent time in a mental institution to deal with it. Nice beginning, I suppose, but it casts doubt on all that follows. Are the proceedings supernatural, or is the whole film just about the extended delusions of an unbalanced mind? Is the film supernatural horror or psychological drama? Sigh.

Tyler makes a big deal of going away from the others to spread his mother's ashes in a spot nearby that was of some significance. He chats about it when he gets back. Is he OK? Is he OK to drink alcohol?

Jim figures he's 'shooting blanks;' that is, does not have viable seed. He's trying to figure out how to tell his wife. Bobcat has lost his hair, but gained a lot of kids, and likes to play recorded football games. Everett and Chris both play guitar. They catch up through talking.

This is all rather dull through the first 36 minutes. Then the weirdness and SFX start up. Of course Tyler witnesses it first; he's the least likely to be believed. He sees bright light in the middle of darkness, and sees an odd being who looks just like his dead mother. Tyler confides in Chris, who promises to go with him in daylight.

There is a bit of transition, but the other four witness what Tyler experienced. Together they set about exploring it. Driving a snowmobile through it does not work; the motor stopped. Their telephones do not work. All of them feel great, but they all start having nosebleeds. Everett stays; he wants to experience more right away. The others decide to go back to the cabin.

They try to figure out how to monetize it. Not surprisingly, they start having contentious exchanges; the possibility of huge amounts of mostly free money seems to open their ability to irritate each other. Everett meets Lee Shephard in the woods; Lee offers to help fix the non-functional snowmobile...then he witnesses the corridor of lights. Lee takes to it quicker than all the others. Everett notices this and garrotes him.

Their behaviour continues to become more weird. Tyler starts to look like the most sane one of the bunch. The corridor expands to the cabin.

Will the friends survive this experience?

------Scores------

Cinematography: 6/10 Hand-held camera for some sections, uninspiring for the others.

Sound: 8/10 Mostly good.

Acting: 6/10 Competent, but not engaging. The actors were good soldiers. Unfortunately, the best actor by far, Nigel Bennett, had very little screen time.

Screenplay: 0/10 Pointless.

This is not a good movie, and you people need to stop giving it positive reviews.

[DeeEll1 · 3/10 · 3 September 2017]

Honestly, I'm not sure why anyone gave this movie any sort of positive review. The only reason I've given it more than 1 star was for the acting of the actor who plays "Ev" (curly hair). Not even going to bother looking up his name.

Okay, this movie is REALLY not good, you guys. It COULD have been good, but the story had far too many unexplained nonsense going on. One reviewer suggested that we DO learn about what the Corridor really is... yeah, no. No, you don't. And you'll want to prove me wrong by finding the lines in the movie--and by quoting them directly--that actually explain what's really going on. Oh, wait, there aren't any. They SUGGEST some garbage that never really makes sense, and there is literally NO NO NO upshot to any of this.

I can't imagine why anyone would suggest that this movie is "mind blowing" or otherwise makes you think--no, sorry, it does not. It forced me to wrack my brain to figure out what the crap was going on (and not in the good way), but otherwise... it had no insights into human existence, mental disease, friendship, loneliness, meaningless, etc. If you think this movie was "mind blowing, whoa, man!!!!" then you're clearly uneducated. You probably also think that The Matrix is life-altering--and you've clearly never taken a basic Philosophy 101 class in college either.

Seriously, there are a MILLION other b-horror flicks to watch that are actually "diamonds in the rough," hidden gems worth your time. Oh my god, this is NOT one of them. So angry with you positive reviewers; you need to stop reviewing things IMMEDIATELY.

Stupid movie!! Do not waste time, I wasted 45 minutes before I turned it off!!

[bettyboop-walkerbrown · 1/10 · 2 July 2012]

I am a movie buff, and for me not to like a movie it must SUCK!! My husband and I LOVE horror films, we wasted 45 minutes of our life before turning this movie OFF!!! First I looked at the reviews as I always do and decided by the reviews it seemed like it would be a good movie, but as I watch this movie I think what in the world were the people reviewing this movie watching, cause it sure wasn't this movie!! This movie was absolutely awful, it never picks up, it is very boring, no horror in it at all, at least not in the 45 minutes I watched of it and that is waaaaaayyyyyy to long to wait to see some horror in a supposed to be horror film!! Do not waste your time!!!!!

Contender for weirdest movie of all time

[o_s_k_r · 5/10 · 31 August 2012]

I can't think of the last time I saw anything this bizarre. The script must surely have been written by a genuine schizophrenic - parts of it are too idiosyncratic to be anything other than autobiographical and other parts of it are too strange to have any meaning beyond the context to the author's own delusions. There must be an endless number of scripts out there that are equally weird, produced daily by schizophrenics in mental hospitals all over the world. Here is one however, that someone decided to straight up make into a movie. I mean I don't know that this was the case but that's certainly what it appears to be.

There are however some genuinely scary moments amongst the bad acting and contrived scenes. For example - when the mother starts doing sign language on a loop on the video. The best bits of this movie (and they were very few) reminded me of "the Atrocity Exhibition". Check it out if you like unmitigated weirdness.

A Weekend Get together Goes Terribly Wrong When There is an Encounter With an Unexplained Light Entity

[terryq50 · 8/10 · 27 February 2011]

What would happen if the switch that keeps us from bludgeoning the next passerby we encounter on the street was turned off and we reverted to a more feral existence albeit still convinced we were of a rational mind? In Evan Kelly's The Corridor, 5 friends encounter an entity, a something? and what begins as a Big Chill type get together becomes an unstoppable nightmare all playing out in the banal everyday-ism of a small cabin in the woods.The Corridor is an intelligent film that asks its audience to engage with it rather than be spoon fed a sequence of Peckinpahesque scenes of gratuitous violence. Sure there's some blood, but you may find yourself realizing after you see this movie that you imagined some of the more violent scenes --thats because Kelly seems to have attempted to stay clear of a blood fest type showing and opted instead for a more nuanced approach -- sometimes you can imagine a more horrific picture if you are handed just a few pieces of the puzzle. The film introduces us to 5 friends who have shared a tragic experience and have come together to heal old wounds though each of them comes with their own personal baggage. When they encounter the Corridor, the baggage they carry becomes the fuel that funnels the feral. Kelly heightens the suspense of emotions slowly going out of control until we reach the point of no return and events careen to their tragic conclusion. If I have a criticism, it may be in wanting to have seen the escalation more drawn out and crafted but this is a film that has come together well beyond it's meagre budget and both Kelly and his DP, Chris Ball have worked marvellously in a cramped cabin set for well over half of the movie moving the characters about and toward their eventual fate so perhaps that type of wishful thinking comes with a movie of much greater budgetary resources and screen time. If you liked the pacing and visual appeal of Let the Right One In, you will want to see this picture.

Wanabee Dreamcatcher

[paigekristiina · 3/10 · 11 August 2012]

Felt like to me they tried to hard to capture the amazing story "Dreamcatcher' by stephen king but whoever wrote this movie is most obviously not king, and should never write movies again. I will agree the horror scenes were really intense, but the movie itself lacked any real story line and just seemed to be bouncing around everywhere. I the acting was 'ok' but i still cant stand the plot, and how we never even know what the hell the 'corridor' is? Why make a movie about a supernatural entity thats only in the movie for 5 seconds? I don't get it. I'd liked to seem the guy with the glasses in more movies, he was the only character i liked and actually was good at his job portraying his role. So if your into brutal scapling, crusifixation, and plot holes everywhere, this movies for you. Otherwise just watch Dreamcatcher.

Pastiche of Stephen King stories

[krachtm · 4/10 · 5 April 2013]

The plot: A group of friends come upon a mysterious corridor in the woods that has strange effects on them.

I don't understand why The Corridor has so many rave reviews. For one thing, the score is really rather low (4.5 or so) and the majority of comments are negative. And, yet, there's a long string of reviews calling it awesome, voted as being extremely helpful. It's basically a slow-paced pastiche of Stephen King stories. I don't understand how anyone could call this fresh, different, or original, if they've ever read a single Stephen King book. It strongly reminded me of Dreamcatcher and Tommyknockers, but there's elements of others, as well.

There are many things wrong with this movie, but the biggest is that it's boring for the first half. When it starts getting more interesting, it's derivative. Its like they randomly threw in plot elements of all their favorite Stephen King novels, without any real attempt at cohesion or making sense. Some of the scenes did work, but many of them just annoyed me. The characters were generally unlikable and annoying, which just made the whole experience that much worse.

I guess you might like this movie if you're big into low budget, Canadian horror movies. I usually am, but this one really didn't do much for me.

Seem to be a lot of cast/crew members giving very high ratings !

[FountainPen · 4/10 · 7 February 2018]

That is the ONLY reason I can discern for ratings such as 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. This is a minor effort which I have rated 4/10, considering all aspects. The acting is corny, but the cinematography is reasonably good. Recommended ONLY if you are at a temporary loss for something to do, but be prepared for long periods of boredom !

Not bad

[hrundivb_ · 5/10 · 11 November 2013]

First off, once I realized the opening music was by the Great Lake Swimmers, I realized I was watching a Canadian flick and very keen. Overall I was not disappointed. Acting was fair to good for the most part. The story itself was somewhat unique and each character had sufficient personal baggage to keep things interesting.

Here are my pros/cons

Pros: not your typical story, Setting was excellent (nothing like a real snowy landscape to add an air of realism), Dialogue for the most part was well written, nice little scare scene when watching the video tape, Some not anticipated brutality

Cons; confusing ending, possibly meant to be that way, The jock's balding scalp. Come on, this was ridiculous. When we first see him about to come out of his house I actually truly thought he was wearing a cheap Halloween fake bald head. I thought maybe it was a joke, but evidently not. It is hands down the worst make up blunder I've seen, quite obvious this guy had a full head of hair.

So, playing off the Great Lake Swimmers soundtrack against the worst fake bald head ever, I give this movie a 5.

Fake bald guy

[rodzombi · 1/10 · 31 August 2021]

Yes, fake balding clown hair guy, that's what you're in for. 50 minutes in and nothing happens, the actors can't do anything with the boring dialogue. Just plain boring. Watching cardboard cut outs of people would be more entertaining. What's in the woods? Who cares.

It was not big budget Dreamcatcher. but it was fine.

[davidjp-2 · 5/10 · 1 January 2013]

Some mentioned The Corridor along with Steven King's Dreamcatcher. The similarities were limited. What did they have in common? Childhood friends went to a snowy mountain, stayed for a few days, talked about feelings, strange things happened, people died. The difference, was it supernatural or monster?

The acting were decent. The characters were the problem. If you switch roles among actors, you don't really see the difference. None of them was more likable, none of them stood out; some of them even looked alike, dressed alike and talked alike. After subtle plots unfolded, half way through the movie, I didn't care any of them, what might happen to them.

It was a fine little movie, if you can sit through the first half. Although the last half was not very exciting, somethings did happen, it was enjoyable.