Meander

Meander's basic rat-in-a-maze premise has an innate tension almost impossible to squander - even when the traps, as here, are a touch on the unimaginative side.

This is torture porn... If you're not into that, then stay away from this.

[Meander] offers some newish sights and shocks.

It's a bit too simple narratively, but it succeeds as experiential horror that brings intense, claustrophobic suspense.

This high-concept sci-fi horror makes up in claustrophobic tension what it lacks in logic.

The climax is too vague to satisfy, but Meander works as a lean exercise in suspense with an emotional sting.

This effective, tense thriller plays out in a slick 90 minutes. A perfect shot of adrenalin.

Meander raises a lot of questions and may require a higher suspension of disbelief than some viewers are willing to give. However, for those open to it, the film’s twists will be a pleasure to uncover.

The formula that Mathieu Turi is using is known, not to say well-known... And it works. [Full review in Spanish]

Some of the twists and turns take you out of the film, and the third act is reminiscent of an episode of Wipeout with pools of acid instead of pools of water...but Turi brings a news perspective to the "trapped-in-a-maze" formula.