![]() Waking nightmares intensify, causing Dana to irrationally reason that this is a fine time to put her meds in the toilet. ![]() She traces the source of the supernatural sightings to a hidden room in the attic, a ‘disappointments room’ where turn-of-the-century socialites cruelly shuttered disfigured children to prevent public shame. ![]() She doesn’t get into specifics of why no one has lived there for quite some time, but you can be sure a newspaper clipping montage will fill in the blanks down the line.ĭana is soon plagued by visions of a dark dog, a little girl, and Gerald McRaney. Twelve minutes in and it is already time for a trek into town where a local shopkeeper expresses relief that someone has finally moved into the old Blacker house. Turns out he is actually talking to a stray cat in the sole moment when the movie says, “bet you thought we were going to go with a cliché!” before its prompt resumption of containing nothing but clichés. And as usual for haunted house real estate in a horror film, the Barrows apparently purchased the property sight unseen, as Dana, an architect no less, seems to be laying eyes on her new house for the very first time.īoxes aren’t even unpacked and little Lucas is already talking to an imaginary friend with nosy questions about mom. Being required therapy for such a tragedy in a dramatic chiller, the family relocates to a creepily cavernous old home in the middle of nowhere. Besides being lamely obvious jabs, all of these are apt definitions for “The Disappointments Room.”Īlong with their young son Lucas, Dana Barrow and her husband David are seeking some sort of serenity after the accidental death of their infant daughter. A vanilla thriller devoid of even one beat that can be considered creative. Any theater where people paid money to flush away 90 minutes of free time. The editing bay where filmmakers confirmed they were cutting together claptrap. The office where financers first realized they were producing a pedestrian potboiler. As they drive away with Dana holding one of Laura’s figurines, Dana briefly sees a vision on Judge Blacker in the house’s window. David removes the door to the disappointments room. David vows that they will return home to Brooklyn and promises that Dana will get better. David tries convincing his shaken wife that no one else was there.ĭana reflects back on how she fell asleep and accidentally suffocated Catherine. Dana runs to Lucas’ room and stops Blacker from suffocating her son by repeatedly bashing Blacker in his head.ĭavid runs in and comforts Lucas while Dana continues hammering wildly at the boy’s mattress. Blacker’s dog then attacks Dana as Blacker exits to attack Lucas in the boy’s bedroom.ĭana breaks the dog’s neck and picks up the dropped hammer. Dana returns to the house after seeing another light in the attic and finds that the painted portraits she burned are back in place.ĭana enters the disappointments room and relives a flashback in which Judge Blacker murders Laura with a hammer while Mrs. In the ground is Laura’s deformed skeleton. A vision of Judge Blacker seemingly kills Ben with a shovel.ĭana discovers Ben hanging from a noose above the open grave. Asher’s advice, Dana has Ben Phillips Jr., who had been working on the house’s roof, dig up the gravestone outside. While David entertains family friends Teddy and Jules on Dr. Behind a pair of facing mirrors, Dana also finds painted portraits of Judge Blacker and his wife that she later burns. Judith, who tells Dana that the Blacker house has a disappointments room: a place where wealthy socialite families cruelly shuttered deformed children.ĭana has another harrowing encounter with Laura, followed by a vision of Blacker’s dog mauling Lucas. Dana stops taking her medication.ĭana finds a newspaper article about the death of Blacker’s daughter and notices Laura died on the same date, July 5th, as her own daughter. Blacker, the house’s original owner, and Blacker’s black dog. Dana later has a nightmare of Laura being frightened by her father Judge Ernest A. ![]() She becomes locked inside and experiences a vision of a young girl named Laura. David helps Dana move the cabinet and they find a hidden door to a secret room, but it is locked.ĭana eventually finds the key and enters the room. Thinking she sees a light turn on in the attic, Dana goes upstairs and finds a large armoire blocking a door. The family goes into town and meets storeowner Marti Morrison.ĭana uncovers a homemade gravestone in the ground outside the house. ![]() Dana soon begins having visions and dreams of a large black dog. Still recovering from the death of her infant daughter Catherine, architect Dana Barrow, her husband David, and their young son Lucas move into a remote house in the country on the advice of her psychiatrist Dr. ![]()
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