When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus -- yes, if you're looking for COVID-19 escapism, perhaps this is not your movie -- pregnant tourist Naomi (Yumiko Shaku, Lt. Akane Yashiro from 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and Godzilla: Tokyo S. O. S.) and Val (Carolina Bartczak) bond over more than just their bad marriages. They're also stuck in a hallway filled with victims, all to find Val's daughter Kelly and perhaps get through the horror.

Made as an ode to 70s and 80s horror -- obviously, this Canadian project that tells of an isolated building dealing with a disease within is going to get a Cronenberg association -- the guiding question behind this film was "What would happen if vaccines were created intentionally for purposes of government control and for the profit of the pharmaceutical industry, not necessarily to cure viruses?"

Director/co-writer Francesco Giannini first full-length feature shows a confidence many won't have five movies in. This is a claustrophobic and dark movie that just plain works.

Don't let the genres of "mystery" and "thriller" fool you. There are NO thrills here, just interminable boredom. It runs 1 hour 20 minutes, but it feels like 4 hours because nothing happens. We get to listen to someone's boring, pointless phone call to their mother, which goes on and on and on for no apparent reason other than to pad the running time. A terrible, terrible movie which should be an embarrassment to all involved.

I liked almost everything about this one. Except the fact that the mom just keeps doing everything else than try to save her daughter.

The first 40 or 50 minutes were really okay. After that it went in all directions. Like most others say. Good start. Weak ending.