For their follow-up to House Of The Dead 2, director/co-writer Mike Hurst and co-writer/co-producer Mark A. Altman decided to play on people's fear of hospitals while giving their script liberal does of ideas taken from Larry Cohen's 1990 film, The Ambulance, and (more so) Jacob's Ladder.

Christine Taylor (taking a break from doing comedies, mostly with hubby Ben Stiller) stars as Amy, a seemingly always busy schoolteacher who's been suffering from various nightmares involving hospitals. One morning she sets-out for work, brushing aside her boyfriend Nick (Shane Brolly) who's attempting to try and propose to her.

Later that afternoon after school (and after Amy deals with one of her more eccentric young girl students - who will become somewhat psychic later and mildly push the plot along), Nick picks her up and they head home and end-up getting in an argument along the way. But it's soon cut short when they end-up in a car crash.

During said crash none of the witnesses seem to be acting normal and it's confirmed when Nick is briskly taken away by an ambulance to hospital while Amy tries to figure out what's going on and where they are taking him. From there she ends-up befriending Lucas (Jerry O'Connell), who's sister was also taken away from the crash scene.

It's here that Room 6 becomes yet another horror flick that tries much too hard to keep the audience on edge by mixing reality with nightmare as Amy begins to question her sanity as she suffers from various visions (the best one coming when she goes into a nearby church) and has to swallow her fears and deal with her childhood guilts when she's forced to enter a creepy, seemingly other worldly hospital in order to save Nick from the various demons, odd staff members, and lesbian, blood drinking nurses within.

Suffering from a messy and confused script, Room 6 just doesn't work. Hurst and Altman attempt to keep you off-balance as you're watching the movie and forget about actually stringing the movie close enough to reality that we're able to buy it. The entire thing is much too disjointed to work and while it does offer decent make-up effects by Robert Hall and his Almost Human crew and there's some okay fright scenes in the finale (the shambling, zombie-like burnt corpses for example), there's not enough "common sense" on hand for us to get involved with Amy and her quest to unravel the mystery behind St. Rosemary's hospital.

Of course, the mystery does get revealed to us at the end, and if you've seen any amount of supernatural/spiritual horror movies in the past you'll predict the outcome way beforehand. Taylor does okay in her role, but she's really only required to scream a lot and look scared, and director Hurst does show a strong visual sense, but this is too close in tone to other, better, films and it just doesn't manage to be very satisfying. (Chris Hartley, 6/11/06)

Directed By: Mike Hurst.
Written By: Mike Hurst, Mark A. Altman.

Starring: Christine Taylor, Shane Brolly, Mary Pat Gleason, Chloe Grace Moretz.