The Disappointments Room Dvd

The Disappointments Room is a 2016 American psychological horror film directed by D. J. Caruso, written by Caruso from a script by Wentworth Miller, and starring Kate Beckinsale and Mel Raido as a couple in a new house that contains a hidden room with a dark, haunted past. The film was inspired by an HGTV episode from a segment called “If Walls Could Talk”.

Originally completed in 2014, the film was only released in September 9, 2016, by Rogue to both critical and commercial failure, grossing only $5 million from a $15 million budget.

Plot

An architect named Dana Barrow moves with her husband David and their 5-year-old son Lucas from Brooklyn to the Blacker estate in rural North Carolina, a once-grand dream home that has sat abandoned since the death of its original owners in the 19th century. Upon arrival, Dana begins having unsettling visions and nightmares of a mysterious German Shepherd and Lucas covered in blood. She finds a homemade gravestone on the grounds and an area of the house not listed in the blueprints: a room whose entrance is blocked by a large armoire. The couple pushes it out of the way only to find a locked door. Dana finds the key on top of the door frame and enters the room, experiencing a vision of a little girl being tormented by her father and his German Shepherd. She suffers a nervous breakdown.

Later it is revealed that the couple not only had Lucas, but also a daughter; Catherine, who died a year before.

Shaken by her experience, Dana researches the history of the house, learning about its namesake Judge Ernest Blacker and his daughter, Laura Blacker, who died the same day that Dana’s daughter was born, July 5. Local historian Judith tells her the Blacker family had a secret “disappointments room” in the attic, where wealthy socialite families cruelly shuttered their deformed or disabled children. As she spends more time researching the house, Dana’s mental state begins to unravel, and she stops taking her medication. She begins having disturbing visions of Laura, Judge Blacker, and the dog, and acts erratically toward David and Lucas. She finds a hidden portrait of Judge Blacker and Mrs. Blacker and burns it.

While David entertains family friends on the occasion of what would have been Catherine’s first birthday, Dana hires local handyman Ben Philips to dig up the grave in the backyard. The ghost of Judge Blacker kills Ben with a shovel and Dana discovers his body hanging from a noose above the open grave. Inside the grave sits Laura’s deformed skeleton. In the attic, she finds the portrait she burned completely intact. Entering the disappointments’ room, she witnesses a flashback of Judge Blacker murdering Laura with a hammer, as his wife tries to stop him. Blacker’s dog attacks Dana; she breaks the dog’s neck and stops Blacker from killing her son by bashing Blacker with the hammer. David rushes in, seeing Dana frantically hitting the bed with Lucas in it. He takes Lucas to their bedroom, then returns to talk to Dana.

Calming down, Dana reflects on Catherine’s death, a flashback reveals that Catherine died after being suffocated after her mother had fallen asleep over her. She realizes that she can no longer tell what’s real when she realizes that she was hallucinating Ben’s murder and corpse. David vows that they will return to Brooklyn, and that Dana will get better. Before leaving, he removes the door from the disappointments’ room, and Dana takes one of Laura’s figurines. As they drive away, Dana spots Judge Blacker looking down at them from the window.

Cast

Kate Beckinsale as Dana Barrow
Mel Raido as David Barrow
Gerald McRaney as Judge Ernest R. Blacker
Lucas Till as Ben Philips Jr.
Duncan Joiner as Lucas Barrow
Michael Landes as Teddy
Michaela Conlin as Jules
Celia Weston as Marti Morrinson
Ella Jones as Laura Blacker
Marcia DeRousse as Judith
Joely Fisher as Dr. Asher
Jennifer Leigh Mann as Mrs. Blacker