Ailsa Marshall, Austin Highsmith, Brad Culver

Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya (Ailsa Marshall) discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must...( read more  read more... ) utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

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Directed by: John Suits

Release Date: September 30, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008

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  • October 17, 2008
    Breathing Room starts off with 13 people trapped inside a werehouse lookin room when another person is thrown into the mix a 14th person named Tonya things get really interesting as there trapped inside by electric collars and no means of escape no one knows who to trust then the...( read more) lights start going out and each time another ends up dead is the killer in the room with them? and if so who? now with the clues they have gotten they must figure out a plan to end this madness. Pretty cool Cube/Saw like movie that must have been made on a much small budget but worth taken a look at as its a cut above the rest
  • October 12, 2008
    Decent Saw/Cube inspired horror flick about a bunch of folks trapped in a room and forced to kill each other. The director keeps the pace going at a decent rate and the performances aren't too bad. Not necessarily recommended, but there's no reason to run away from it screaming.
  • August 7, 2009
    Behold the personification of MEH. I didn't like it, didn't dislike it - the movie was just kinda ok. I'm usually a big fan of the 'throw people who don't know each other into a closed environment to solve a mystery' genre. It just didn't work for me here though. Quite possibly b...( read more)ecause, going by the ending, I'm not sure the writers really had an idea for the movie past that. Solving a mystery is only interesting if the payoff isn't pointless enough to taint the rest of the story.
  • July 15, 2009
    Very similar to the SAW movies, but this one concentrates on the dilemma of being held in small group captivity in a homicidal situation. This had the feeling of a play adapted to film, and most of the essence was in the dialogue. Unfortunately, the characters were unsophisticate...( read more)d, not fully developed, not very interesting, and not very likable. This is one of those movies with an ambiguous end, as the plot concept hinges on the dilemma of being held captive in an elaborate game by a murderer, rather than in the explanation for the circumstances. As such, I think it could have been more exploratory and deeper.
  • July 15, 2009
    Very similar to the SAW movies, but this one concentrates on the dilemma of being held in small group captivity in a homicidal situation. This had the feeling of a play adapted to film, and most of the essence was in the dialogue. Unfortunately, the characters were unsophistica...( read more)ted, not fully developed, not very interesting, and not very likable. This is one of those movies with an ambiguous end, as the plot is mainly in the situation of being held captive in an elaborate game by a murderer, than in the explanation for the circumstances.
  • April 5, 2009
    Suspenseful, but if the ending was clearer, it would've been great. Acting wasn't bad but the mystery was a bit too predictable.
  • February 19, 2009
    AWSOME MOVIE hardly scary but AWSOME!!!
  • December 30, 2008
    Movie doesn't make much sence in the end but doesn't matter :P
  • November 1, 2008
    Quite a good idea, but I wish there was a better explanation. There wasn't really a motive.

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  • Identify the correct film listed the dialogue is from: General Chang: "To be, or not to be. That is the question, which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room." Captain James T. Kirk: "Hitler, Earth, 1938." General Chang: "I beg your pardon."   Answer »

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