This is listed as a horror film, but it could also be considered sci-fi.
It is placed somewhere in the future where a company has decided to "punish" their employees for less than stellar work performance with being drugged and kidnapped...and put into individual cells with a very old school wheel mill.
Each of these people wake up disoriented, and very frightened. Only to have darkness fall and the terrifying screams of what sounds like either torture or someone being killed come over the extremely high wall.
Maybe your next door neighbor will talk to you, maybe they won't. Maybe they will tell you the truth, maybe they won't. Because their life depends on doing at least one (or more) walks around the pushing mill to avoid TERMINATION.
And it's an open sky. So each day could be hot as heck, or lovely. But the job only gives you the same sandwich, chips, and one bottle of water...rain or shine.
And if you break the rules or talk back, there are consequences.
And those consequences can affect ALL of the employees in the arena (or just you, who knows?) And every single night someone gets violently, well, terminated. (Which by the way we never see,I liked that myself, old fashioned terror without blood n gore)
And our protagonist, who is primarily the only person we see throughout the whole film, has to live through this. And Lil Rel might come off as a comedy actor. But he killed it here.
And there were times I didn't know what he was going to choose to do. And that's unusual for a horror film. As so often characters are very much cut and paste.
I only took off a star for the few times it felt it was dragging. And the whole "dream sequences/memories" idea they went with. It felt so afternoon soap opera. But all in all, 9/10. I would love to see the employees revolt.
It is placed somewhere in the future where a company has decided to "punish" their employees for less than stellar work performance with being drugged and kidnapped...and put into individual cells with a very old school wheel mill.
Each of these people wake up disoriented, and very frightened. Only to have darkness fall and the terrifying screams of what sounds like either torture or someone being killed come over the extremely high wall.
Maybe your next door neighbor will talk to you, maybe they won't. Maybe they will tell you the truth, maybe they won't. Because their life depends on doing at least one (or more) walks around the pushing mill to avoid TERMINATION.
And it's an open sky. So each day could be hot as heck, or lovely. But the job only gives you the same sandwich, chips, and one bottle of water...rain or shine.
And if you break the rules or talk back, there are consequences.
And those consequences can affect ALL of the employees in the arena (or just you, who knows?) And every single night someone gets violently, well, terminated. (Which by the way we never see,I liked that myself, old fashioned terror without blood n gore)
And our protagonist, who is primarily the only person we see throughout the whole film, has to live through this. And Lil Rel might come off as a comedy actor. But he killed it here.
And there were times I didn't know what he was going to choose to do. And that's unusual for a horror film. As so often characters are very much cut and paste.
I only took off a star for the few times it felt it was dragging. And the whole "dream sequences/memories" idea they went with. It felt so afternoon soap opera. But all in all, 9/10. I would love to see the employees revolt.