I’ve sampled horror flicks from all around the world, and I’ve found that most of them have a pretty regional flavor to them. The Japanese and Koreans, for example, love ghost flicks. The Europeans favor the theme of man’s inhumanity to man. And most horror I’ve come across from other lands is at least fairly good. Joining the ranks of the best, however, is a little title from Poland, The 206.
It’s about a guy who wakes up in a stairwell, semi-conscious, unable to figure out what’s going on. As he sets out to reconstruct his life, he finds out there more going on here than he realizes.
The best part about this one? There’s NO DIALOGUE. The story is being told entirely through the actor and through the background music, both of which are quite thoroughly awesome. The ending, however, is somewhat unclear and can be interpreted several ways, something I never like.
However, the rest of the film is enough to wrangle a rare eight out of ten from the Screenhead Ten Scale, who was sufficiently on edge through most of it to appreciate its sheer Hitchcockian tendencies.
Popularity: unranked [?]
