Saw first published by Movie Gazette, October 24, 2004 Adam (co-writer Leigh Whannell) wakes up to find his leg shackled to a pipe in a large, filthy bathroom, with the surgeon Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) chained to the opposite wall far out of reach. The presence in the room’s centre of a bloody corpse…
Tag: locked room mystery
The Woman With Leopard Shoes (La Femme aux Chaussures Leopard) (2020)
From the outset, The Woman With Leopard Shoes (La Femme aux Chaussures Leopard) both does and does not let us know what kind of film it is going to be. As an unseen woman recruits a burglar who is wearing a hood over his head to prevent him identifying her, the scene unfolds not only…
Dead End (Punto Muerto) (2018)
Dead End (Punto Muerto) first published by Rue Morgue Dead End (Punto Muerto) opens in 1907, in room 217 of the Deja Vu Hotel, where blind Marie Rathbone (Maria Eugenia Rigon), typing braille at her desk, is attacked by masked criminal mastermind The Wraith, who first stabs her with a rapier blade, and then strikes…