Two strangers, Adam, a photographer played by Leigh Whannell, and Lawrence, portrayed by Cary Elwes, find themselves inexplicably bound to pipes at opposite sides of a room. Each has a small recording device in their pocket, and the only way to hear it is through a tape player held by a dead man positioned in the middle of the space. Some cleverness is required to access the equipment needed to play the tape and perh…

I usually prefer older movies, particularly horror or thriller films, but I did go see installments three and five when they first came out—even though it's not really the proper way to watch a series, I just didn’t mind. They struck me as interesting and acceptable, for reasons I can’t quite explain. Now that I have a partner who loves horror films and my son is also thirteen and into them, I figured I should give t…