A business woman heading to her sister's house for the holidays finds herself locked within the confines of the parking garage at her work being preyed upon by the company's night watchman.
Rachel Nichols plays a business woman named Angela who's in the process of leaving work when something terrible happens. On route to exit the parking garage at her job she finds that her car won't start so she goes to get assistance from the company's night watch man Thomas. Right away you can tell there's something not right with the guy but in kind gesture he offers to share his Christmas meal with her, which she declines and they go back to her car and to her dismay, it can't be fixed. So she calls a cab and waits out in the lobby with all her Christmas crap and when the cab gets to the building she attempts to exit but the doors are locked and she's obviously screwed. So she goes BACK to Thomas's office but he's not there so she walks through the garage when all of a sudden all the lights go off. Blinded by darkness Angela takes out her cell to light her path only to be attacked by Thomas in the dark as she raises her phone for some source of light. And that's when the fun starts.
 
We find that Thomas has a very unhealthy obsession with Angela and he won't take no for an answer when it comes to her being his company for the holiday weekend. With no one else in the building to help she has to do everything she can to attempt to escape in fear that she may become the unhealthy victim of an unhealthy obsession.
Now this movie starts out a little slow but kicks in really well, though parts drag on for a little bit this movie is genuine and original which I completely appreciate. Simplistic but sharp this movie pulls some pretty sweet curveballs, especially the scene where Thomas runs down the office man-whore with his car, smashing him into a brick wall, ripping his stomach open, intestines spilling on the floor, then one more slam on his head and he's tomato paste on a windshield! That scene alone caught my attention and praise. In the spirit of actual realistic horror this movie does well enough to win my vote, I'd definitely give this a run again, at least to watch that bastard smashing scene in slow-mo! Check it out!
Though the title doesn't explain shit about the movie it's all cool, this movie isn't all that bad. I recommend this movie, not highly but it's definitely worth renting for a run.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2007
DIRECTOR: Franck Khalfoun
WRITING CREDITS: Franck Khalfoun, Alexandre Aja
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley, Stephanie Moore
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 98 min
RATING: 7/10
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