Room 205 (2007)

Room 205 is a Danish product part of the Ghost House Underground collection; and my favorite of those I have watched. A pretty scary ride that plods along at first, but when the blood starts to splatter and body count builds...we have an awesome shocker on our hands. Katrine(Neel Ronholf)decides to move into an old dorm in order to go to college. Its like most, not very modern, plenty of vacancies and of course a ghost story. The dorm seems to be ruled by a nasty spirited Sanne(Julie Olgaard), who decides who's 'in' and who's 'out'. When Katrine seems to hook up with Sanne's ex-boyfriend Lukas(Jon Lange), she is automatically put on the 'out' list. That means some spooky pranks and some humiliation along with the incited fear of the ghost of a student that died in room 205. It comes to the point that a string of murders are not blamed on a mysterious ghost, but Katrine; she if forced to figure out how to get rid of a spirit that seems to be living in every mirror in the dorm.I found Olgaard exciting to watch; not a shabby actress...and very nice to look at. Most of the scenes are dimly lit, but those ghostly visions were superb. Also in the cast: Mira Wanting, Mikkel Arendt and Rikke Lylloff.

Rating based on US DVD of Room 205 (Kollegiet), not the original version. I'd rate this higher, but apparently Ghosthouse Underground doesn't trust the audience to be literate enough to read subtitles. What would have been a very good horror film was ruined by overdubbing the original dialogue with English. It's not the 70s anymore, trust the audience to be able to follow subtitles. The vocal performances are lost under new, studio polished American voices, which takes away from the quality of the film. It's a shame, because it's nice to have a film based on fear, not gore. It's not a perfect film, and I wasn't scared, but it made me want to see more from this cast and director.But shame on Ghosthouse Underground for overdubbing! I know they've ruined Vikaren (The Substitute) based on the overdubbed trailer at the beginning of this DVD. I've seen that subtitles, and I shudder to think of how they ruined that one.So know if you rent this, you aren't going to get the full benefit of the original film.

When you walk in to see this film, you don't go to see great art. You go to get scared shitless. You go to frightened and thrilled. I went to see this movie for that reason. Mission... not... accomplished... The film starts OK. The cinematography is interesting and the slowly unfolding plot seems to be heading somewhere. But it's not! After a couple of minutes you start wondering: Is that all there is to it? Has horror really been reduced of a couple of clichés and unintelligent plots? The story doesn't hold. The "monster" isn't scary. The characters are paper thin. So thin, that you suddenly start to laugh of how stupid and unoriginal these characters are: There's the shy girl who has a hard time integrating into the campus community. There's the evil girl who's just like every female villain in teenage flicks. There's the sexy snob and the good looking oddball with a golden heart. This film is basically a Mean Girls version of The Ring. But the worst part of the film is the monster. Do you remember that spoof on Samara in Scary Movie 3. The monster in Kollegiet is just like that. And the feeble attempts to give her some back story doesn't work. You end up feeling sorry for the people behind this plain horrible horror film, which basically is a mockery to the slasher genre. Verdict: A very bad attempt to make a danish mainstream version of The Ring. Can only be recommended to teenagers who like unintelligent films.

I have just seen the danish movie Kollegiet, and if you wanna see a good movie do not watch this one. Only see it if, you want to see a cheap and bad wannabe of the ring. The script and the actors is about as poor as my English.The plot is very bad and predictable. Although the movie you know when the chocks come and you ain't really scared at any time. and thats a shame because that is the only thing they could have wanted whit this movie.The main character have a mom who is dead, moves to the apartment smashes a mirror and the ring wannabe girl comes out. That is the long version of the movie:)Sorry to be so harsh whit kollegiet but I did really not like it.