room 8 ( film )
‎room 8 (2013) directed by james w. griffiths • reviews, film + cast • letterboxd
congratulations to james w griffiths for his bafta award for short film for room 8. room 8 is one of five different films from the same script: the bombay sapphire imagination series. seeking to spark the imagination, we asked oscar winning writer geoffrey fletcher to write a short script stripped of any stage direction. the five most imaginative film entries were picked, produced and premiered at tribeca film festival 2013. to see more about director of room 8, james w. griffiths, go to urltoken
griffiths’ originally was an editor, and started to direct shorts later, room 8 only the third project he’s directed .
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room 8 is a short starring tom cullen, michael gould, and yuri klimov. a prisoner discovers a magical box with a baneful secret that he falls foul to .
room 8, a short film written and directed by james w. griffiths, takes place in a russian prison. british prisoner ives (tom cullen) is taken to a new cell, where he meets the mysterious shears (michael gould) .
allegory, fantasy, and tale of incarceration ,
room 8
makes a robust impression for its limited running time. like the best pieces of short fiction, the film is memorable, fully imagined, and effective. it makes a tremendous impact .
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in a mere five minutes, director, james w. griffiths creates a short film that is moody, fantastic, dark, and chilling. a well - assembled mind - bender, griffith' s
room 8
combines fantasy with prison drama and results in a statement on the traps the humans can never escape .
a cultural phenomenon, tommy wiseau' s the room has become a cult classic since its release in 2003. the film itself is hard to describe; the basic synopsis barely does it justice :
2014. it is the first and only time a branded content film had won the highly coveted award .
created as part of the bombay sapphire imagination series, room 8 is one of five handpicked films based on oscar - winning screenwriter geoffrey fletcher’s (precious) script. run in association with the tribeca film festival, the competition invites filmmakers to take a script that is absent of direction and inject their own genre, locations, characters and imagination to bring the film to life. speaking to the director via email, i was eager to discover exactly what attracted him to this particular competition :
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the box would be free falling forever since you' re room and every other room would have been thrown over the wall as well. so you' d just be floating around forever like on the space station .
for the faithful, the room isn’t just bad, it’s intoxicatingly awful .
- nicholas barber, urltoken
room 8, a short film written and directed by james w. griffiths, takes place in a russian prison. british prisoner ives (tom cullen) is taken to a new cell, where he meets the mysterious shears (michael gould). in the cell, ives finds a red box, which piques his interest. unable to fight his curiosity, he opens the box, and is shocked at what he finds .
don' t listen to the haters or those that want to chip away at the overall brilliance of' room'. what film doesn' t have small flaws, they pale into insignificance during the 2 hours of continuous emotional maelstrom that follows. this film wrings every last drop of emotion and drama out of the allotted playtime. make no mistake, despite short bursts of touching serenity, this films starts up full throttle and doesn' t let - up. i can only assume reviewers here scoring this film 8 or less must be vulcan by birth, or just terminally insensitive. this is a first rate drama with stand out performances all round. especially from the child protagonist. * * warning * * if you have trouble viewing emotionally charged material of a sensitive nature about abuse. you would be well advised not to view this film .
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what is so fascinating about the room is how beguilingly
off
it feels. dialogue seems almost intentionally unnatural, moments escalate out of nowhere and can settle almost as quickly, and scenes play out in confounding fashion. but in a weird way, it kinda works. because of this, audiences approach the film with the same fervor as a rocky horror picture show crowd, complete with callouts and the occasional props. it is a film everyone should experience once, and we certainly recommend doing so before james franco' s the disaster artist, which chronicles the making of the room & its subsequent release, hits theaters in december .
set in a 1970’s prison cell, james w. griffiths’ striking room 8 mixes an intriguing narrative with impressive visual fx to create an utterly compelling 7 - minute short. with a plot that feels pulled from an episode of the twilight zone, griffiths’ short is one part thriller, one part science fiction and one part horror. which in my eyes equals a whole lot of awesome .
a man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the dolphin hotel. soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror .
the cynical and skeptical writer mike enslin writes books evaluating supernatural phenomena in hotels, graveyards and other haunted places, usually debunking the mystery. while writing his latest book, he travels from los angeles to new york to spend one night in the dolphin hotel' s posessed room 1408, which is permanently unavailable for guests. the reluctant manager mr. gerald olin objects to his request and offers an upgrade, expensive booze and finally relates the death of more than fifty guests over decades in the cursed room. however mike threatens mr. olin, promising to sue the hotel, and is finally allowed to check into the room. later in the night, he finds that guests of room 1408, once they have checked in, might never leave the room alive .
really excellent production values and a clever, twisty little five minute twilight zone premise combine to make a film which continues to linger in the mind well after it' s finished .
nice film. but why would you do that? the best he could have hoped for was spending the rest of his life hidden among giants. lonly and in constant danger .
but what' s the main idea of the film? there are three more short movies on the topic, and all of them are about opening the box and regrets later .
british academy of film and television arts) award for best short film. it was selected in an online competition to be part of the five - part bombay sapphire imagination series, based on a script by oscar - winning screenwriter geoffrey fletcher. competitors were invited to pitch a script, based on fletcher’s outline and the winners would get a significant budget to produce their short .
whilst griffiths’ film is the pick of the bunch, the series as a whole is an impressive collection of shorts, showcasing the work of some up and coming writers / directors. with a variety of different interpretations of fletcher’s script on show and some truly impressive production values in each film, bombay sapphire have certainly set a high standard when it comes to brands collaborating with filmmakers. with the series already accepting submissions for a second year – the winning films due to premiere at the tribeca film festival in april 2014 – we’re already eagerly anticipating what this impressive collaboration brings to our screens next year .
i mean, he' d have to blast the room to smithereens, but if the outline of the opening of the box was intact, i bet it still would work .
if you' ve seen christopher nolan' s doodlebug, you' ve seen this short film. though i must say, it is a dark and manipulative drama very neatly induced in just under six minutes .
tldr: it' s physically impossible take a littler box out of your original box, you can try to carry your original box out of you room. but as soon as you' re over the wall, everything will look and seem like an endless abyss of space... but at least you could float around your room like a sexy sandra bullock astronaut .
as an editor, griffiths’ has cut his teeth on a series of successful shorts, including 2011 short of the week pick stanley pickle. yet it is in making the transition from editor to director that we’ve really begun to get a sense of the talent and originality griffiths injects into filmmaking. with room 8 now his third (and most ambitious) short as a director, following splitscreen: a love story and we were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, we asked griffiths how he went about developing geoffrey fletcher’s stark script and how the production differed from his previous work :
towards the beginning of his stay in room 1408, mike mentions that
some smart - ass
once wrote about the
banality of evil .
the
smart - ass
in question is german political theorist and intellectual
while mike is reviewing the room for the first time, he puts down the bottle of cognac on the bedside table, opened. when the radio starts and he looks back from the window, the cork has magically reappeared .
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“online film competitions are becoming more and more common, but the problem with most is that you must use your own resources to make the film first and then it gets judged. what was unique with this competition is that first you pitch for the chance to make it, the judges pick the best pitches and then they give you the resources to make it, including a substantial budget. opportunities of getting good budgets for short films is few and far between at the moment so i wanted to grab hold of this one with both hands. ”
how about that! the ending is haunting and left me with a sense of dread. how would you react if you were to find a box like that? do the boxes give access to a parallel universe, somehow? i have so many questions, and they all go unanswered. it’s a very mysterious film .
someone' s going to need to enlighten me as to what' s so great about this. it' s not a terribly original idea and is reminiscent of christopher nolan' s
doodlebug
short film from decades ago. sure it' s a neat little idea, but there' s nothing else to it .
there' s a competition to write a story around a given script. as i understand it all the writers are given words to the script and have to create a story hence there being 4 other winners who had their film created with similar scripts but each of them have had original ideas and executed them differently. this is probably my favourite .
i' m ok with the shaky - cam, but everything about this film is very derivative (especially of doodlebug, as you mentioned), and i saw the whole
send the next prisoner
thing coming almost immediately. it' s also just pointless and meaningless, pretty much the only thing someone will get from watching this is
ah ha !
room tells the extraordinary story of jack, a spirited 5 - year - old who is looked after by his loving and devoted mother. like any good mother, ma dedicates herself to keeping jack happy and safe, nurturing him with warmth and love and doing typical things like playing games and telling stories. their life, however, is anything but typical - - they are trapped - - confined to a 10 - by - 10 - foot space that ma has euphemistically named room. ma has created a whole universe for jack within room, and she will stop at nothing to ensure that, even in this treacherous environment, jack is able to live a complete and fulfilling life. but as jack' s curiosity about their situation grows, and ma' s resilience reaches its breaking point, they enact a risky plan to escape, ultimately bringing them face - to - face with what may turn out to be the scariest thing yet: the real world .
as jack is lying face - up, his head at the tailgate of the truck, he beholds the naked sky for the first time. the world is passing by - from top to bottom of the screen. this is exactly the opposite of how he would see it from his established perspective. this is no small error for arguably the most beautiful moment in the film .
edit: if you tried to carry your open orig box out of your room and over the wall, then as soon as you got your box over the wall, everything will look and seem like an endless abyss of space. so imagine you climb up to your ceiling while holding your original box. you open the lid of your orig box so the bigger you opens your ceiling. you climb out and are now hanging on the outside of your wall by one arm with your other arm holding your original box. you look up and see the bigger you is holding your entire room (his box) that your hanging on to. and you see he himself is hanging on to the side of his room, which is being held by an even bigger you. you then look down at your box and see an infinite chain of ever smaller you' s clinging to your box to infinity. but while the chain is infinite, it' ll never be longer than the distance you can hang from the box, it' ll just get infinitesimally small .
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this is the perfect metaphor for why we can' t accelerate mass to the speed of light. imagine if you opened the box, but you had a rocket, at first you would easily pass through 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 boxes... but as you became inversly smaller the distance to the next box would become infinity more difficult to achieve on a logarithmic scale, eventually, no matter how much force you put behind the rocket, the distance to the next box would be infinity long never allowing you to reach it .
now what if, while holding your orig box at chest level, you opened it and flipped it upside down to try to get the littler box fall out of your orig box? it still wouldn' t work. but something really weird would happen. the bigger you would of flipped his box (your room) upside down as well, and so on to infinity. so all the boxes (rooms) are now upside down and free falling within each other. but, given physics, we know everything falls at the same rate (not accounting for friction), and a weird effect would take place. everything in your room would seem to be weightless because everything is technically in free fall (although it wouldn' t feel like your falling at all). you' re orig box would just float there upside down. it' d be like being on the space station; the space station and everything in it is just constantly
falling around the earth
but we call that orbiting. if you think about that, it' s pretty damn cool; you can essentially control and
aim
the gravity of your room
now what if, while holding your orig box at chest level, you opened it and flipped it upside down to try to get the littler box fall out of your orig box? it still wouldn' t work. but something really weird would happen. the bigger you would of flipped his box (your room) upside down as well, and so on to infinity. so all the boxes (rooms) are now upside down and free falling within each other. but, given physics, we know everything falls at the same rate (not accounting for friction), and a weird effect would take place. everything in your room would seem to be weightless because everything is technically in free fall (although it wouldn' t feel like your falling at all). you' re orig box would just float there upside down. it' d be like being on the space station; the space station and everything in it is just constantly
falling around the earth
but we call that orbiting. if you think about that, it' s pretty damn cool; you can essentially control and
aim
the gravity of your room .
shined up i decided to watch this after polanski' s
the tenant
and that was probably a bad choice, because that film is precious. this one consists of three elements, typical of the king formula. the first is the expression of terror, shaped safely so that you can watch but not be personally threatened. i think this is a king invention. here, we know we would have taken seriously the warnings so he deserves what he gets. it relieves us. the second element is trite, so far as i am concerned. also a king specialty is to weave some sort of emotional trauma into the otherwise merely decorative horror. here it is the death of our character' s child, which happened before we meet him. this allows for the final zinger. the third element is the stuff i study and that king knows well. i call it narrative folding. situations are nested in each other. time gets shifted, at the same time that the period in the room proceeds in real time, even with a clock counting down. ghosts inhabit ghosts and all people are ghosts. cold is hot. water is land. daughter is wife. this is the stuff that makes the film work, and i think it is done pretty well. its why they picked cusak. he understands this stuff. has since
malkovich
and
fidelity
and mastered in
identity .
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] once upon a time, before i came, you cried and cried and watched tv all day, until you were a zombie. but then i zoomed down from heaven, through skylight, into room. whoosh - pshew! and i was kicking you from the inside. boom, boom! and then i shot out onto rug with my eyes wide open, and you cutt - ed the cord and said ,
hello, jack !
paul and jennifer hemdale have just moved into their dream house. but their happy marriage is about to be put to the test as they slowly discover the secret behind the black room in the cellar. something else is already living in their new home and it is growing stronger every day. it has claimed many victims including the last owners of the house. repairmen who journey down into the basement soon meet a horrible end. when paul is taken over by this demonic entity, it is no longer trapped within the walls and is quick to take advantage of all pleasures of the flesh. jennifer and her younger sister karen begin to suspect that something is wrong with paul. karen finds out the truth a hard and painful way, leaving jennifer alone to fight the demonic entity that has possessed her husband and threatens to destroy her very soul. and paul is not the only one transforming as jennifer soon discovers that the black room is not only evil but alive as well and may not be able to be stopped! the ...
“the first thing i got from the bare script was that there had to be something really fascinating inside the box. i felt that to open a box and see the room that you where sitting in could provide some really cool visuals and an interesting story. everything developed from there. setting it in a prison cell came about when i wanted the man to jump out of the box at the end, but had no real reason for him to do so. so i had the idea of him jumping out to make himself small to escape under the door. ”
“the first thing i got from the bare script was that there had to be something really fascinating inside the box. i felt that to open a box and see the room that you were sitting in could provide some really cool visuals and an interesting story. everything developed from there. setting it in a prison cell came about when i wanted the man to jump out of the box at the end, but had no real reason for him to do so. so i had the idea of him jumping out to make himself small to escape under the door. ”
you wouldn' t be able to actually lift the littler box out of your original box, since they' re actually all the same boxes, it' d be like standing on your own hands and trying to lift yourself up. so if you reached into your original box and grabbed the littler box then the bigger you would be reaching in to his box (your room) and be grabbing your original box, and this would reverberate through all the boxes to infinity (everything reverberates through all the boxes to infinity). when you start lifting the littler box up, the bigger you starts lifting your original box up as well. with your hand still inside your original box, it will be picked up by the bigger you but only as high as you can stand on your tip toes. as soon as you let go of the littler box inside your original box, so does your bigger you let go of your original box .
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thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. within the grey cage, an unwelcoming fellow convict cautions the newcomer not to touch the intriguingly mysterious red wooden box which rests on the lower bunk, moreover, not even think of opening it. why is there so much secrecy about the contents of the box? could there be hiding the means to his escape ?
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the contents of a mysterious box leads a convict to attempt an extraordinary prison escape .
set in a russian jail, when a new british prisoner is thrust into one of the cells he finds a fellow countryman and a mysterious red box. when the box is opened a series of incredible and surreal events give him a chance to escape .
“this was a much larger production than my previous films. i was used to working with a bare minimum crew with a very low budget, one of my previous films was even shot on mobile phones. this project gave me the opportunity to work with a great production company (independent), with great actors on a great set. ”
the implications regarding the justice system are also interesting: apparently, the guards are working with shears to get rid of prisoners. it’s like a form of solitary isolation that takes in a lot less space, and eventually, assuming they don’t get food or water, they die in the matchboxes, they are essentially executed. in its essence, it’s an allegory for the current prison system, where prisoners are dehumanized and reduced to insignificant creatures, mandated by their own uncontrollable impulses – those that got them imprisoned in the first place, but also, in this case, curiosity .
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a prisoner sits on his bunk, greeting the man who shares his cell. the prisoner spies a box on his bunk. the rest is left best discovered by the viewer, but the following story beats can both thrill and disturb with a claustrophobic stab that is sharply felt. the production is small - scale, but it meets the needs of the story and never feels rough or unpolished .
james w. griffiths’ neat mind - bending short is part twilight zone and part doodlebug as a prisoner finds a unique way to escape his cell thanks to a mysterious red box. featuring excellent production values and a premise of endless permutations it is an enjoyably twisting and twisted story with a particularly dark climax .
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should' ve tried to pick up the box from the the box... . that would probably cause a spatial loop and the universe would collapse .
mind - blowingly entertaining. wonderfully shot. similar idea with nolan' s doodlebug .
holy shit, i didn' t see that coming. what a short! best short i have seen in a while. i totally recommend giving it some notice .
expérimentation louable de l' unité (classique) du lieu, que n' aurait pas déprécié, via rétroaction, un amateur de correspondances méta - médiumniques tel que léonard himself (suffit de substituer aux plates & planes triangulations bidimensionnelles, la rodomontade quantique). intéressant imbroglio entre le carcan psychologique de sa vie intérieure (ici, la
vice
, comme une vis, qui rive, rogne et échaude), et mon existence mondaine, souvent l' épiphénomène de l' autre (
may god forgive your sins; your nervous system won' t
( korzybski). à défaut d' être intellectuellement séduit par tout le profond caractère insoupçonné de son unprocessable situation, le vulgairement écroué (cd. le taulard ordinaire, moyen) ne pense qu' à sa fuite (romanesque robinsonnade), qui ne saurait être, évidemment—nous qui gambergeons le savons de toute éternité! —, qu' une ligne de fuite vers le même intransigeant quantum .
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a british prisoner is taken to a new cell and there he meets a man who protests to not to open a red box that he finds inside the cell, unable to fight his curiosity he ignores the man and opens the box only to find something mysterious and the rest happens to be the end of the story .
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cox racked up three tackles, one interception, and one pass defended in a second half battle during the bengals’ preseason opener .
the cincinnati bengals opened the preseason on friday night, beating the tampa bay buccaneers 23 - 12 in paul brown stadium. at the half, the bengals were down 9 - 6 and had to rely heavily on the defense in the second half to keep the buccaneers from taking the game away from them. a large part of that effort came from rookie defensive back demetrious cox who signed with the bengals as an undrafted free agent out of michigan state following the draft in may .
cox first saw action late in the third quarter of friday’s game. the first play we’ll look at is a tackle on a run play where cox limits buccaneers running back jeremy mcnichols to a one - yard gain. in the clip below, you can see cox pursue the running back well, moving toward the line and then turn mcnichols back inside toward help. cox does well to help limit mcnichols to only a yard here on first - and - 10 .
two plays later, on third and nine cox is on the outside perimeter one - on - one with bernard reedy who runs a solid out route right at the first down marker. cox sticks right on reedy’s hip, and actually had solid coverage, but the great throw from ryan griffin was right on the money and tampa bay picked up the third down. also on this play, and this has nothing to do with cox, check out the great pressure from defensive end chris smith. though, like cox who was unable to break up the pass even with great coverage, smith’s motion toward the quarterback didn’t do enough to negatively impact the play for the buccaneers who converted their third down into a first down .
finally, we’ll look at cox’s interception, which was the only turnover of the game for the bengals. playing deep in the last zone, the overthrown ball was too much for walker and cox did a good job of tracking, locating and getting underneath the errant pass for the pick .
cox also gets up quickly and gets back down the field, showing some shifty moves on the return of 37 yards, which completely flipped the field for the bengals’ offense. had cox stayed down, the offense would have been on their own 10 yard line, but instead they were outside of their own 30 yard line .
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part of the credit, there' s the name of jack white, the guitarist and vocalist of the band the white stripes, a poster of which can be seen in a scene in joy' s bedroom .
( insert expletive here)... . perfect! !! ! !
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the reform club, pall mall, st. james' s, london, england, uk
, who wrote about the
banality of evil
in her essay
eichmann in jerusalem .
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i have no idea why this is rated so high. i actually had to look it up here to see if it was supposed to be a horror movie or comedy. it is like some trash movie filmed in the 80s. plenty of nudity though if you are into that sort of thing. it really reminded me of the first hellraiser. that movie was scary when it came out but if you watch it now it' s laughable. at least it had a storyline worth following .
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now. whatever you saw or did. is no longer my concern. but let' s be clear. it won' t end well.
room 8 is a 2013 short film written and directed by james w. griffiths . on february 2014 , this film has won the 67th british academy film awards ( bafta ) as the best short film . 
room 8 is a 2013 short film written and directed by james w. griffiths. on february 2014, this film has won the 67th british academy film awards (bafta) as the best short film.
room 8 is a 2013 short film written and directed by james w. griffiths. on february 2014, this film has won the 67th british academy film awards (bafta) as the best short film.