Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016)

There was definitely some potential to be had with "Gehenna: Where Death Lives", however, it doesn't end up amounting to much other than a vastly mediocre supernatural horror flick. Had it played up its strengths and scaled back on it's meandering, I think this would've been a pretty decent movie.

A team of architects are scouting the future location of a lavish resort in the Western Pacific when they come across a Japanese WWII bunker. Upon exploring it, things get hairy when they discover rooms containing withered corpses, are attacked by an old man and eventually find themselves locked inside. As they struggle to find their way out, apparitions start targeting each of them - preying on their own personal past traumas.

While there are a few scenes that are fairly effective - namely the old man scene (starring Doug Jones of "The Shape of Water" fame, whose part is but a mere minute-and-a-half, tops), which was kind of creepy and also a part involving a ghostly chicks' head and neck contorting which looked alright. Though, aside from these brief moments, the movie is MUCH too long and incredibly drawn out. None of the bland back stories touched uon mattered at all to me and the overall execution of the story felt aimless to a frustrating extent. Had the more 'interesting' scenes come across as less of an obvious 'seize the opportunity' of getting Doug Jones and Lance Henriksen for a VERY limited time, which is highly toutable for the films cover, I think the movie would've played out much better; and especially if they tightened up the story and done a little more editing to cut down on tedium. Again, I can kinda see where they wanted to go with this, but unfortunately, it was a swing and a miss.