Blu-ray Review – The Black Room

Writer/co-director Norman Thaddeus Vane has the general idea for a vampire movie with 1982's "The Black Room." Instead of creating creatures of the night, the writer turns these monsters into landlords who prey on the undersexed needs of their tenants, taking their dignity and their blood in the process. "The Black Room" isn't particularly sharp, but it has a germ of an idea that could be developed into something uniquely sinister. Vane and co- director Elly Kenner don't have the budget or the patience to create a compellingly bleak look at the breakdown of marital communication, going with a film that's lost somewhere between its desire to be an erotic thriller of some sort and its need to conjure frights for paying audiences. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com