The Sleeping Room, A Prostitute, Ghosts, and a Possessed Boyfriend

Prostitutes. In films they can be such sympathetic figures.  Always hot. Always with a sad story. Always the losers of society's cruel lottery.  Today we look at a neat ghost/possession set in the seaside city of Brighton (the U.K.).  Of course our protagonist is a lovely and misunderstood call-girl.  This won't be a happy one.  Gritty, no humor, and dark...so if you like your horror movies like that, this one is for you.  So let us delve into a lurid tale that is 2014's "The Sleeping Room," directed by John Shackleton.

Blue (Leila Mimmack) is our call-girl protagonist. She has a past that is horrific.  Her mom used to be a call-girl at a brothel in Brighton called The Dells.  The mom was a whore when she went to see her parents, murdered them, and committed suicide.  This left Blue to be raised by foster parents.  Now Blue is amiss in life wondering who her mother really was and why she did what she did. One day, Blue is called to service a guy named Bill (Joseph Beattie) at the old brothel.  Bill is a contractor hired to fix the place up for sale.  Him and Blue will fall in love. Blue will also snoop around and find a lot of secrets in the house.  One secret leads to another secret and all of a sudden it appears that snuff films were filmed there and the gals who were butchered in them were never found.

Bill is quite taken with the mysterious Blue.  Blue is quite taken with him.  Uh oh...the evil guy who made the snuff films, Fiskin (Christopher Adamson) is still there.  Fiskin, is a ghost who possesses Bill. Blue finds antique reels and watches them.  They are brutal.  More ghosts will appear.  Blue's seedy existence will also come to wreak havoc on her.  A bloody ware will be fought at the old brothel.  Poor Blue, everyone and everything in her life seems attached to the horrific past of the old brother, and it and they all want her gutted.

Will Bill be able to fight the Fiskin ghost and help Blue prevail?  What secrets does the old place hold about Blue's homicidal mother?  Why did Blue's mother murder her parents and herself and is Blue condemned to repeat this horrific deed? Atmospheric and spooky, this film is also ominous and not the feel good film of 2014.  For a neat ghost/possession horror film, with a hot prostitute in much peril, see "The Sleeping Room."