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ACTOR
Karen BruereAbel DivolCapucine MandeauJulien Masdoua
DIRECTOR
Frédéric Grousset
SYNOPSICS
Aquarium (2004) is a French movie. Frédéric Grousset has directed this movie. Karen Bruere,Abel Divol,Capucine Mandeau,Julien Masdoua are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Aquarium (2004) is considered one of the best Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Six people wake up locked in an empty room. They are observed by a camera and loudspeaker broadcasts music on hold. After meeting, they try to find a way out, but the only possible outcome is walled. Suddenly, the music stops and a voice begins to dictate their orders.
Aquarium (2004) Reviews
welcome to your new residence. it does not have an exit.
surprised to see no ones discussing this on the forums or there isn't already a user comment. i got this on netflix after first finding it in a record store but i didn't buy it. it sounded cool. it kind of reminded me of cube or saw, six strangers wake up in a white room with no exit or memory of how or why they are there. all the while under a surveillance camera, they are told to participate in group activities almost like they're on 'Big Brother' and these are their challenges, only if they refuse to participate, sabotage, or lose a challenge/activity they will be executed and removed from the room. if a person survives all challenges, they will be released. one by one the prisoners are offed. more of a long episode of the twilight zone than a decent movie like cube or saw. its only an hour and ten minutes. evil game of simon says, Russian roulette. it all had me until the end, which tries to explain and justify everything but just seems "tacked on", as a netflix user b-independent.co puts it. it would have been better to just leave it a mystery. but still worth seeing, if you dig this type of genre.
"I'll stick to what I said before:It's a well done bad joke."
Whilst gathering up French films to watch over the next 4 months,I was happily caught by surprise,when a very kind fellow IMDber sent me an obscure,gritty looking French Horror. Being in the mood to watch something lean & mean,I decided that it was time to dive into the aquarium. The plot: Waking up in an empty room,6 strangers discover that they have been locked in,with the only items around being some weird food,a CCTV camera and a microphone playing music into the room.As they try to make sense of what is taking place,a voice booms out telling them all that they must perform some tests and follow a series of rules,which will lead to 5 of them dying,and the survivor being freed.During the first "warm up" test one of the 6 falls to the ground,which leads to everyone soon discovering what happens when they break "the rules." View on the film: Backed by an unsettling Industrial hum from Camille Grillot & Nicolas Verdoux,co-writer(along with Jean Mach) director Frédéric Grousset & cinematographer Johann Valette whip around the gore in razor sharp,off-centre edits,and cut into a cold,clinical Horror atmosphere.Keeping most of the movie in one room, Grousset drains any hint of humanity from the title,with dried greys,browns and blood being the only light surrounding the strangers. Running for just under 70 minutes-and being shot in 8 days,the screenplay by Mach & Grousset take advantage of the swift speed by uncoiling a mood of dread,thanks to the writers making the closed- off location play with the strangers heads,which gives the already difficult challenges a merciless bite.Although they do well layering the deadly horror facing the strangers,the writers disappointingly leave the characters rather flat,that causes a number of major set pieces (such as a game of Russian roulette) to not be completely filled to the brim with tension,due to the 6 strangers not being given a chance to make each of themselves fully stand out,as they look into the aquarium.
A very low budget Saw clone
Six strangers awake in a strange sealed off room. A surveillance camera constantly watches them, while, via a speaker, someone relays instructions to them. They are left in no uncertain terms that only one of them will survive this ordeal. Aquarium is a pretty decent attempt at ultra low budget film-making. It's fairly compelling and intriguing, and makes the most of its limited setting. However, it does feel as if not enough was made of this basic premise. The characters never even discuss their last memories before they arrived in this situation, while the psychological games played upon the participants are never developed enough and mostly feel quite rushed. It really feels like a short movie stretched – just – to feature length. Its too under-played, it would have been better adopting the more in-your-face approach of the film it is most mimicking, Saw. Still, I didn't think this was a bad film, just one that could've been much better.
A tense, claustrophobic Orwellian nightmare. But by no means perfect.
"Hell", to paraphrase philosophe and all-round general smart arse Jean Paul Sartre, "is being locked in a room with your friends". "Yeah", adds spacebum and all-round true Brit Dave Lister in Red Dwarf, "but all his mates were French." So sets the scene for Aquarium, the 2004 Frederic Grousset's low-budget (French – obviously – duh!) indie – except for the friends part; as ever when a desperate group of people are brought together in an unlikely scenario, they are all strangers. Think Cube meets big brother. Six strangers awaken in a room with no idea how they got there. A single camera watches them, from behind which a monotone voice informs them they must partake in a series of tasks, with the last man or woman standing being allowed to leave. The losers won't get to leave because – well, they'll be dead. As often in survival of the fittest scenarios, the real tension here comes doesn't come from the external threat, but from the possibility of your fellow sufferers turning on you at any second. Can you really work together to solve the problem when someone may knife you in the back any second? That's not to say there's not some fun to be had as the jail master ensures they toe the line. The fact that all of the prisoners can me incapacitated through anaesthetising gas pumped into the room means that any hint of insurrection results in a swift knockout for everyone, the captors enter the room, remove or punish the perpetrator, leave, re-seal the room and then wake everyone up, meaning that that group very quickly submits totally to their "hosts". One character tries to break the camera and awakes to find his finger sitting on the floor next to him. Money can't buy the kind of obedience that gives you. The inhabitants don't hang about for long. They are swiftly despatched in between bouts of contemplation, bonding, arguing and fighting. Unfortunately, it's difficult to root for any of them as, despite a cursory background, most of the characters remain in 2-D, falling into "shrill harpies" or "shouting angry guy" roles. The slightly washy visuals betray the low budget, but don't distract as badly as the few jarring edits that could have been avoided by keeping a better eye on continuity. A tacked on ending lets the film down badly. It's as if Grousset decided at the last minute to try to make the whole film a metaphor for modern living. The final "twist" is fairly predictable and something at the end about a big corporation controlling various aspects of modern living really made no sense and detracts from what is otherwise a reasonably tense thriller.