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The Immaculate Room (2022)
Interest concept, poor execution
The Immaculate Room, is as the synopsis states...a movie where you spend 50 days in a white room, and by completing this you win $5 million.
It's as described on the tin. Plot wise, it seems like its going to be like other similar titles such as Phonebooth, The Circle, The Platform, Cube, etc....but this movie really goes nowhere. There is no tension. And while I really like the main actors, its hard to suspend your disbelief that people would really act this way and be so self destructive when theyre constantly reminding themselves its $5m on the line.
Really theres quite a lot of stimulation. Theres actually 2 rooms. Plenty of space to be active and move about. The lights are dimmed every night (not constantly on and over stimulating), and there are various treats and such that add stimulation to the time, so really its hard to believe that people cant do 50 days.
There's no twist or pay off for the little bit of tension in the movie either. The movie really goes nowhere so can't really recommend it.
Death Clique (2014)
Innacurate to the real story
As most are probably aware, and why you probably watched this movie, is it was based on the true story of the murder of Skylar Neese in 2012.
This movie unfortunately was quite different to what was testified as the true events leading up to what happened. They portrayed the characters Ashley (Rachel), Sarah (Skylar) and Jade (Shelia) as quite different in character to witness testimony.
It was portrayed in this that Ashley was constantly actively pushing Sarah out of the group. And that they went regularly to big parties. In reality the girls had quite religious households, and Ashley & Jade were trying to keep their relationship private and secret. They werent actively mean to Sarah to her face, but they started to exclude her and stopped hanging out with her and inviting her places.
Additionally they have Sarah living in a family home and had no job, when in reality their family lived in a secure apartment complex, and she worked at Wendys. It doesnt make sense that Sarah ridicules Ashley's living conditions when she herself was the one who lived in an apartment while the others lived in houses.
This movie had Ashley as the one masterminding the events that happened, when in reality it was Jade. It had Sarah go out the front door, and sneak out as if it was the first time. In reality Sarah would regularly sneak out her window, to go and smoke weed with Ashley & Jade. It portrayed Jade as clueless about what was happening.
In reality Ashley & Jade spent weeks/months planning the murder, including how it would happen, change of clothes, shovels, etc...Sarah would finish her shift at Wendy's, arrive home and go to bed. Ashley & Jade would text her to sneak out as they often would, to go and Smoke weed. They would drive her out to the woods about 50 minutes out of town on the state border where they would normally smoke. They would then proceed to jump her and kill her together, both stabbing her. Following the killing they couldnt dig into the hard earth to bury her, so they covered her in branches, leaves etc...and left her in the woods.
When questioned about her disappearance, Ashley & Jade would stick to the story that they had snuck out that night, but they had dropped her home at around midnight as they always did at the end of the street. The video footage from her apartment would falsly corroborate this story. Thinking that the footage of her arriving home was from them dropping her off, and then she snuck out again to another unknown car. It would turn out, the footage of her arriving home was her coming home from work, and the unknown car was actually Ashley's when they picked her up (the parents didnt know her car, only Jades).
Over time, Ashley would be the one to have a break down and get aggressive with her mother, yelling her, beating her, to the point she called the police. Ashley would eventually be taken to the mental clinic, afterwards she would visit the Police Station and confess to the murder, and take the sheriff to the body. Neither of the girls directly confessed to the parents, most certainly not Jade. The parents werent notified until after the police recovered the body, which was approx 1 year after the murder.
Its a shame they would destroy the true crime story to this extent. This movie didnt fairly represent any of the girls, their relationships, and what actually occured. In reality the mastermind was Jade, Ashley was the guillable one to go along with it. They completely twisted the real story.
I think had they built the movie around the real story, it would have made for a far more compelling movie to watch. It could have been more along the lines of the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures.