Cadaver: The aftermath of a nuclear disaster in Norway, likely war. Things are bleak food is short, the city looks bombed out, there's a const gloomy fog/mist. A strange man arrives offering people food and entertainment in a local hotel. People are fed and an interactive theatre ensues. That's when reality becomes difficult to separate from the performance. People start to disappear, strange things happen. Some really horrific scenes as what is really going on becomes all too obvious. Not a totally original story but the execution gives it a fresh flavour. Some heavy handed allegories though and the running time could have been pruned. Once again a horror film which might have worked better as an episode of The Twilight Zone. Written and Directed by Jarand Herdal in his feature debut. On Netflix. 6/10.

It's one of those movies which you watch and you don't have opinion about it. I liked the main idea, it was something unusual and unique. The problem was how the main idea was fullfiled. It takes about 40-50minutes of whole movie just walking and seeing literally nothing. There's only 20minutes of action in the film which makes movie very boring. I won't talk about plot jumps, some nonsense scenes(there was a lot of them). I wouldn't recommend to watch it because there are many similar movies that are better than this, like "Get out" or "Us".

Sometime after a nuclear disaster there is widespread famine and Leonora, Jacob and their daughter Alice are just about surviving. One day Alice hears a man outside advertising a theatrical production at a large hotel... as well as a play a meal is promised. Jacob cautions against going but Leo prevails and they attend. After eating the production begins; hotel owner Mathias explains that there is no stage; the production will take place throughout the hotel with the audience following various actors. To tell who is an actor and who is a member of the audience the latter are given masks to wear. Shortly afterwards Leo and Jacob lose sight of Alice and panic as they can't find her. They start to wonder what they have let themselves into; is it just a macabre production where, as Mathias said, nothing is real or is something very sinister going on around them?

Horror is a highly subjective genre; what scares one person won't scare another and what for one person is great tension building is just boring for somebody else. This really worked for me; the hotel provided a great atmosphere and for quite a while I was unsure whether anything really bad would happen or if Mathias was being honest when he said that nothing was real. The film does play with genre clichés; secret passages accessed via hidden buttons and even characters looking through holes in paintings where the eyes should be... I don't think I've seen that one since I watched 'Scooby Doo' in the 1970s! Sometimes the characters' behaviour is a little unrealistic but that can be justified by plot demands. The cast does a fine job and the film is shot in a way that looks really impressive. Overall I'd recommend this to horror fans who don't need a creatively gory death every few minutes... not that there is anything wrong with that!

These comments are based on watching the film in Norwegian with English subtitles.