, or even a single room to tell stories that strip bare the characters contained within them, and reveal something haunting not just about the people on screen, but the people watching on the other side. At their best, these films are feats of tremendous logistical, budgetary and narrative imagination, sometimes even more than their scaled-up horror contemporaries.
. That film, while not a single-location story, made excellent use of intimate surroundings and a small cast to tell a moving, frightening story of grief, regret and the ever-present past.allows Geoghegan to return to familiar themes and a stripped-down narrative scaffolding, while delivering something very different from his past horror success.
Through a solidly laid few minutes of table-setting and reminiscing, we learn that Hock is still mourning the loss of his wife, who committed suicide a month earlier amid paranoia about Nazi spies living next door.