Corridor
Press
"It's the kind of film that not only keeps you thinking about the plot long after the film is done, but it expanded my mind about human nature and the very stupid things we do when we're terrified and paranoid, both for good reasons."
www.aintitcool.com
"Corridor is one of those movies everyone can and will relate to.
a damn good movie, an intimate, tense thriller that realizes that there is nothing scarier than not feeling safe in your own home, especially when the man behind your non-safety is a very angry Peter Stormare.
Corridor is a small film, the kind of low-key, audience pleaser that not enough people make anymore. There is nothing high concept going on here, just a solid story driven by good actors and a final act that that's intense because of the stakes but hilarious thanks to a screwball comedy level of intricacy. Corridor is meat and potatoes filmmaking at its very best."
Jacob Hall, www.chud.com
"Corridor is Rear Window with sound instead of sight.
Writer/Directors Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm have deftly created something gripping that will drive fingernails deep into theater seat arm rests.
Beyond the tone and the strong performances, the fear is palpable because of how real it is.
Most of the movie takes place in the imagination of the audience, and that’s a powerful tool in delivering a tight story that scares the bodily fluids out of you. What Jaws did for the water, Corridor might do for making new friends in your apartment complex."
Cole Abaius, www.filmschoolrejects.com
"Corridor will certainly thrill those who get a chance to see the smart, funny and anxiety-inducing movie. The filmmakers wonderfully mine anxiety from the easily relatable material of an inconvenient living situation and the consequences of mistaken identity, while Johnsen delivers a great performance as the young student whose self-righteous indignation gives way to dread andpanic, as his orderly world of text books and science devolves into a manic fight for survival. "
Matthew Odam, www.austin360.com
"A Hitchcockian thriller that plunges into paranoia and brutal murder.
The film quickly focuses on the basics: paranoia, fear, loneliness.
Never had hammer blows been so great!
One inevitably thinks of the stifling atmosphere of THE TENANT by Roman Polanski."
Francis Barbier, DevilDead.com
"A brilliant exercise in style by two young Swedish directors, Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm, who tackled the psychological thriller genre. Their technical mastery of the genre’s codes is admirably used in the dramatic construction of a complex character who initially repulses viewers, only to better embroil them in his madness and confront them with their own fears."
Aurore Engelen, Cineuropa
" a claustrophobic film, in the fine tradition of 1970s US psychological thrillers. (...) Shot almost entirely in interiors (the university, Frank’s flat, the corridors of the building…), one of the film’s most interesting aspects lies in this huis clos effect. The interiors accentuate the characters’ anguish and doubts and, while the space of the action is limited, this encourages an inventive direction that doesn’t need to resort to special effects to create the desired tension and anxiety. What is hidden is usually more horrible than what is shown, and this talented new pair of Swedish directors already seem to know how to use this to effect."
Vitor Pinto, Cineuropa