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Forbidden Room (The)

Country: Canada, Language: English, 130 mins

  • Director: Guy Maddin; Evan Johnson
  • Writer: Guy Maddin; Evan Johnson
  • Producer: David Christensen

CGiii Comment

You may ask yourself: Is this the long awaited sequel to Flesh Gordon?

And, you may tell yourself: This is art.

After 130 minutes of this claptrap...you will be as mad as Maddin, it's all just a little too much to stomach.

Those who persevere will be no more the wiser by the end...if it was Maddin's intention to dumbfound - he succeeds, wholeheartedly.

The constant shifting imagery, the demented editing and the howlingly bad acting all serve to make this - quite possibly - the most exhausting film ever made.

Five unconnected, incohesive, incomprehensible intertwined stories - the stuff nightmares are made of. The 'experimentalists' will love it. The rest of us, who endured to the end...will feel stupid

Draining drivel.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Roy Dupuis as Cesare;
Clara Furey as Margot;
Louis Negin as Marv / Smithy / Mars / Organizer / Mr. Lanyon;
Udo Kier as Count Yugh / The Butler / The Dead Father / Guard / Pharmacist;
Gregory Hlady as Jarvis / Dr. Deane / A Husband;
Mathieu Amalric as Thadeusz M___ / Ostler;
Noel Burton as Wolf / Pilot / The Captain;
Geraldine Chaplin as The Master Passion / Nursemaid / Aunt Chance;
Paul Ahmarani as Dr. Deng / Speedy;
Caroline Dhavernas as Gong