Breathing Room (2008/I)

Directors:

John Suits
Gabriel Cowan (co-director)

Writers:

Gabriel Cowan (writer)
John Suits (writer)

Release Date:

30 September 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Let the games begin.

Plot:

Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game...

Plot Keywords:

Room | Collar | Game | Clue | Corpse

Cast

Ailsa Marshall	...	Fourteen (Tonya)
Michael McLafferty	...	Eight (Lee) / Twelve Corpse
David Higlen	...	Five (Harry)
Brad Culver	...	Six
Kim Estes	...	Ten (Henry)
Keith Foster	...	Host
Stevens Gaston	...	Thirteen
Austin Highsmith	...	Eleven
Terri Marsteiner	...	Three
Jeff Atik	...	One (Charlie)
Eve Sigall	...	Four (Rothie)
Sara Tomko	...	Nine
Bryce Gerlach	...	Two (Operator)
Steve Cembrinski	...	Zero (Robert) / Scientist
Brandon Stacy	...	Two (New Room)
Jessica Natalie Smith	...	Henry's Grand Daughter
Eric Lindley	...	Maggot Corpse / New Room Participant
Patti O'Donnell	...	Seven Corpse
Mark McKeown	...	New Room Participant
Jimbo Lee	...	New Room Participant
Ellen Dransfield	...	New Room Participant
Gabriel Cowan	...	New Room Participant
Monica Forouzesh	...	New Room Participant
Heather Monley	...	New Room Participant
Charles Suits	...	Other Room Participant
Sarah Suits	...	Other Room Participant
Kerry Johnson Bailey	...	Other Room Participant / Scientist
Morgan Riehl	...	Other Room Participant / Scientist

Directed by
John Suits
Gabriel Cowan		(co-director)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Gabriel Cowan		writer
John Suits		writer

Produced by
Kerry Johnson Bailey	....	co-executive producer
Gabriel Cowan	....	executive producer
Gabriel Cowan	....	producer
Bryce Gerlach	....	producer
Morgan Riehl	....	co-executive producer
Morgan Riehl	....	line producer

Original Music by
Chris Kidd
Kari Rae Seekins
Karl Suits
Tim Ziesmer

Cinematography by
Gabriel Cowan
John Suits

Film Editing by
John Suits

Production Management
Mark McKeown	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kerry Johnson Bailey	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Eric Lindley	....	sound recordist

Editorial Department
Sarah Suits	....	assistant editor

Production Companies

• New Artists Alliance
• BIG Pictures
• Imagination Worldwide (presents)

Distributors

• Accent Film Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Albatros Film (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Gryphon Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Movie Bank (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (rental)
• New Select (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)

Also Known As:

A Room to Breathe (Canada: English title) (working title)
El cuarto del miedo (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]
Jigsaw: Rule of Death (Japan: English title) (DVD title) [en]
L'exutoire (France) (TV title) [fr]
No Exit (Germany) (DVD title) [de]
No Exit - Verloren zwischen Albtraum und Wirklichkeit (Germany) [de]

Runtime:

USA:89 min | USA:89 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo | Stereo (original release)

Certification:

Australia:MA (2008) | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Argentina:16 | Germany:18 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Azusa, California, USA

Company:

New Artists Alliance

Quotes:

[first lines]
Fourteen: [crawling in the dark, distressed breathing, scream, falls naked into lit room]
Six: Shit! Now we're talkin'. I think she's the last one boss.
Eight: You're going to be okay. We'll get you some clothes.
Fourteen: What's going on?

A very unappealing rip off of the "Saw" series.

This film is for the most part just like the "Saw" series. More like Saw 1 actually then the other two though. You basically have a group of kidnapped people trapped in a room where they're picked off one by one till there is one person left who then gets to go free. The only real difference is this film is horrible. The sound effects were so fake sounding, the characters were annoying at best and the story went basically no where. The twists in this film were so lame and didn't really change the plot at all. It just wasn't scary enough either. You never see anything graphic which also brings this movie down. The Saw series completely blows this film out of the water. I'd pass on this one.