The Tower

The Tower

Which side will you choose?

Rating

1.0 (1)

Release Date

2/8/2023

Runtime

90 mins

Overview

In the heart of a city, the inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the residents try to organize themselves, but to ensure their survival they gradually succumb to their most primitive instincts, until they sink into horror...

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A pressure-cooker nightmare where ordinary people trapped in a tower succumb to their darkest impulses as civilization crumbles around them. It's a slow descent into chaos that finds horror not in monsters, but in what humans become when cornered.

Mood

Dread-soakedClaustrophobicUnsettlingTense

Themes

SurvivalPowerComing apartIsolation

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violence

Reviews

brett

This most likely sounded great on paper, but it should’ve been burned to a crisp immediately after reading it.

<i>Lockdown Tower</i> begins with a “coating” surrounding an apartment building, trapping all inside from the outside world. Internet and TV are down, and the electricity goes in and out. Now trapped with no escape, the building’s residents do whatever they can to survive, which includes turning on each other.

The film drags for most of the time (and takes place in a five year period). We do not have a specific character to focus on or, rather, there is no one we can or should care about because they’re all terrible. In addition, we learn absolutely nothing about what’s happening outside, which should be the main focus of the film. It’s shown mostly at the beginning, and then it’s thrown to the side, never to be spoken of ever again, just like what I’ll do with this film after reviewing it.

<b>Final thoughts</b>:
What sounds like a potential mix between <i>Await Further Instructions</i> and <i>The Purge </i>(if it were held in a single location) results in a non-scary fight for survival and a terrible ending.

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