Movie Review: BackRooms vs. Disclosure Day

This film was brilliant! One of the most unsettling horror movies I've ever seen because it draws on the shifting architecture of the subconscious. Have you ever dreamed that you were in a place you lived and you discovered that there were rooms in the space you weren't using? I've had this dream frequently for years. I love that this young man--he's 20!--developed and directed this idea. The architecture of the nightmarescape is noteworthy in its own right--this would make a great creepy/unsettling museum experience. The film captures the vibe of 1990 very well--the era of wall phones, cheezy furniture commercials, and I'd say the furniture accurately reflects furniture design from that period. I'm stunned at how good this was. In contrast, Disclosure Day was a profound disappointment. The first half started well, but devolved into what felt like X-files meets ET. Too sacharine sentimental, with large plot holes--how did the two main characters not remember their abduction experience? Why did Hugo wait until this moment to carry out his plot? Out of nowhere, one of the main characters could help people with their emotional pain by presenting as someone the person loved...it was over-the-top hokey. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a much better alien contact film. It's a shame that 50 years later, when he revisits the same subject, he drowns it in saccharine syrup.