11: The Room (2019)
Trailer which gives away just about everything
Yes, really, somebody made a film called The Room again.
Content warning for glimpsed sexual violence
Having basically exhausted Netflix for the year, turning to the regular month of Shudder. After last year having three pretty big recent cinema releases and a few other interesting new things after I missed a year, this year... maybe I should make this every two years.
So looking through its originals and exclusives, we have this.
A couple move into a not-immediately-creepy old house and discover a secret room which a sub-Hellraiser-y door and lock design... which grants wishes.
With the snag that the wished for items quickly age or rot once outside the house. But that’s no big deal when they stay in and enjoy assorted luxuries for one montage having fun.
Until, because they’ve already failed to have a child twice, one of them uses The Room to make one. So from then on the film’s about that, with a couple of interesting twists, one visually striking moment, and a bit that requires a content warning.
It’s an idea used to relatively little effect.
The medium: Shudder
Gameability: What would your PCs do with a limited wish? Hard to destroy the world with that restriction but I’m sure they could find a way...
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