The Disappointments Room

The Disappointments Room
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	D. J. Caruso
Produced by	Geyer Kosinski Vincent Newman Tucker Tooley
Written by	Wentworth Miller
Starring	Kate Beckinsale Mel Raido Gerald McRaney Lucas Till
Music by	Brian Tyler
Cinematography	Rogier Stoffers
Edited by	Vince Filippone
Production company	Demarest Los Angeles Media Fund Media Talent Group Relativity Studios
Distributed by	Rogue
Release dates	September 9, 2016 (2016-09-09) (United States)
Running time	92 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million[1][2]
Box office	$4.7 million[1]

The Disappointments Room is a 2016 American horror film directed D. J. Caruso, written 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 released on September 9, 2016 by Rogue^[3] to both critical and commercial failure, grossing only $4 million from a $15 million budget and panning from critics.

Plot

Looking for a fresh start after the death of their infant daughter, Dana and David, together with their 5-year-old son Lucas, move into their dream house, a once-grand, now run-down^[4] rural home. When frightening and unexplainable events lead Dana to discover the long lost key to a room in the attic, she accidentally unlocks a host of horrors that reveal the house’s past is terrifyingly tied with her own. A town historian tells Dana that houses of the well to do often had a "disappointments room" where children with special needs or deformed would be isolated so as not to embarrass the family. Dana uncovers the shocking story of a judge whose daughter was kept in such a room in her house and the spirit of the deformed girl and the monstrous judge still linger. She starts to see this demonic spirit who threatens her own child but by doing so she begins to doubt her own sanity.

Cast

• Kate Beckinsale as Dana
• Mel Raido as David
• Gerald McRaney as Judge Blacker
• Lucas Till as Ben
• Duncan Joiner as Lucas
• Michael Landes as Teddy
• Ella Jones as Laura

Production

The production on the film began on September 8, 2014, in Greensboro, North Carolina. On October 20, Kate Beckinsale, Mel Raido and Michaela Conlin were filmed outside buildings on South Elm Street in Greensboro. The same buildings were used for exteriors, but the interior filming for the scenes represented by those buildings took place on Fourth Street in nearby Winston-Salem. The house used for the main location was the English Tudor style Adamsleigh estate, built in 1930 and designed by Luther Lashmit, at Sedgefield Country Club outside Greensboro.^[5]

Release

The film was seeking a distributor after Relativity Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and placed the film up for sale.^[6] Later, Relativity Media scheduled the film for a March 25, 2016 release.^[7] On March 14, 2016, it was revealed that Kidnap would be the first post-bankruptcy release in August of that year, pushing The Disappointments Room and Before I Wake off the release schedule.^[8] When Relativity Media revealed their new film schedule, The Disappointments Room was moved to November 18, 2016.^[9] It was then pushed up to September 9, 2016 with Rogue Pictures distributing the film.^[10]

Box office

In the United States, The Disappointments Room was released on September 9, 2016, alongside Sully, When the Bough Breaks and The Wild Life and was projected to gross $1–2 million from 1,554 theaters in its opening weekend. It went on to gross $1.4 million in its opening weekend, finishing 17th at the box office.^[11] In the second week the film, still playing in those 1,554 theaters, grossed just $377,322, dropping to 24th place.

In its third week, however, The Disappointments Room was dropped from all but 36 theaters (97.4%). This set a record for highest percentage of theaters dropping a film in its third week, surpassing the 97.2% by the infamous flop Gigli.^[12][13] By the fourth week, only ten theaters were still showing the film, bringing in just $3,749.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 0%, based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 2.9/10.^[14] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 31 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[15] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale.^[16]

References

External links

• The Disappointments Room at the Internet Movie Database
• The Disappointments Room at History vs. Hollywood