From Bavaria Film International comes a new German horror joint called 205 – ROOM OF FEAR. The flick, for which we have a trailer and sizeable synopsis below, is directed by Rainer Matsutani (RAGING INFERNO). Funny, when viewing the trailer, I was immediately hit more with the sensibilities of a J-horror outing than a German horror flick. Then you consider the name Matsutani and maybe the influence is justified.
What happened in Room 205? Why has no one lived there for over a year? Katrin couldn’t care less: the 19-year-old student has landed a room in the dorm, and that means freedom! Freedom from home and her over-protective father. The semester is just beginning, and it’s time to make new friends, go to parties, have sex, and, of course, go to classes. Then, strange things happen in her room, and she begins to understand why no one wanted to move into Room 205 before her… One night, she makes a horrifying discovery in the cellar: Christian, a young man she had slept with, is dead. And it’s only the first in a series of grisly “accidents” in which Katrin is involved.
When she finds the video diary of her predecessor, Annika, she becomes convinced that Annika was murdered by a clique of students who are now accusing her of killing Christian. Katrin feels increasingly terrorized… Annika’s video messages seem to be the desperate cries of a tormented young woman. But are they really? Fearful of going mad and suffering the same fate as her predecessor, Katrin wants to clear up the mystery – even if it means confronting herself with terrifying truths about her fellow students, herself, and the former occupant of Room 205…
Jennifer Ulrich, Julia Dietze (below), Andre Hennicke, Tino Mewes, Daniel Roesner, Marleen Lohse and Florian Jahr all star in the film.
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