Kidnapped (AKA Secuestrados) 2011

After a flurry of home siege movies, Kidnapped is a new Spanish offering, that has more than a passing resemblance to some of the big genre classics. A family move into a new high security house, but rather amazingly become victims of a home siege on the very first day they move in. While the husband and one of the captor’s head out into the night to get cash, the Mother and Daughter are left to cope with the more dangerous assailants.

Kidnapped (AKA Secuestrados) has a lot to it, a lot that is slightly different, including some nice split screen storytelling made famous by Brian DePalma’s Carrie back in 1976. The use is well placed, not over the top, and a nice way of keeping the movie in real time, in periods where much is going on.

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The Innkeepers (2011)

The Yankee Peddler Inn is closing, a one time majestic hotel has been so unpopular in recent years, and its rooms lay empty almost every single night. Claire (Sarah Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are the hotels last staff, and managing the final weekend between them. Obsessed with the fact that they believe the hotel to be haunted the duo decide to spend the weekend loading images and sound onto a website that proves the hotel is haunted, and not just something they personally believe. This weekend, they are about to be proven right, or are they?

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