Damian McCarthy directs Adam Scott, Peter Coonan and David Wilmot in this Irish horror where a depressed author goes to scatter his parents ashes at the creepy hotel where they spent their honeymoon.

Very much my jam. A maze location, sinister set design, Stephen King tribute moves. Oodles of clues and puzzles and wrong turns and “Don’t do THAT!”s. Scott finds himself in a quicksand of mysteries, each one as lethal and traumatic as the next. A nexus of locked door suffering that recalls In The Mouth Of Madness, Hellraiser and Barton Fink. Just a low key thrill-o-matic. Love the fetid, whiskey barrel woody look of this one too.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Hallow (2015)