SO,

I really enjoyed this film and i am so glad i went to the cinema to see it. it has your typical horror elements of jump scares but plays them so well, and did in fact make me jump myself a few times.

as most horror films i tend to love this has the feeling and elements of Dante's inferno, as above, so below, this internal exploration of self, grief and trauma. (gave me 1408 vibes fr but more folklore to it) a writer goes/is invited to a hotel to only be denied a room for it to later pull them into it's horror.

I loved the vibes of this film, its colouring, it's set, everything, I low-key did not like ohm much at first as he did come off as rude but so did others, the more we get to know him the more we see why he was being the way he was and a lot was foreshadowed.

Many scenes showed reflections of people and one of Ohm walking out of the elevator to the suite which was such an imagery piece to as above, so below that he was about to set into another world, hitting towards you are only seeing things because of drugs, implying his turmoil was an internal one and not a real witch and only appeared that way because of the folklore of the witch being told to him. did he really see a witch? or was this a manifestation of his grief and self loathing he believed he should be taken to be tortured forever. (his hands taken from him because he used them to kill his mother accidentally)

the Jack? rabbit character was such an amazing creepy part of this film and i wish there was more of him tbh. "want help? it isn't coming, feel scared? you should be" you can only help yourself. a figure from his childhood he connected to to be used against him, a constant reminder of his young happy mother's life he "stole".

Jerry, a man who did the hardest thing a person could do to be used as a scapegoat and killed like the ones he buried that those hotel workers killed. there is so much i can keep saying.

in the end, Fiona saves Ohm again and we see he starts to soften on others instead keep them at arms length. and he beings to see the world a little less bleak and create work that doesn't end in suffering but redemption and connection.

Ohm faced the witch and and himself, went through fire and he came out the other side.