I was looking for something humorous, and saw this Netflix movie from Norway (dubbed in English), so I decided to give it a try. Well, maybe the humor just didn’t quite translate (were they going for dark humor?), because I didn’t laugh once and found it mind-numbingly boring and over-the-top gory as well.
In The Conference, a small group of municipal employees are off to a woodsy conference center for team building, and to prepare for an upcoming groundbreaking ceremony for a project they have been working on which includes a controversial shopping center. Not only are the employees ineffective at their jobs, they are led by an odd duo with suspicious motives. Soon, one employee who has just returned from an unexplained absence–Lina–begins to question the project, various other employees, and how the group should proceed. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure has begun picking off the skeleton staff at the conference center one by one. The killer then swipes the large head from the project’s creepy “mascot” and continues its gruesome rampage in an oh, so bloody, manner.
Will Lina convince other employees to join forces with her to fight the company’s greed and corruption? Will the murderer get to all the employees, or just the weirdest ones? Will Lina save the day by figuring out who the murderer is and why they are doing this? Will any viewer still care after the first twenty minutes? Alas, all good questions, but I forgive you if you don’t care to find the answers and pass on this one for your 31 Days of Horror.
- Top Scare: Jonas
- Heartbeats: 1 out of 5
- Gore Factor: 4 1/2 out of 5
- Scare Factor 1 1/2 out of 5
- Recommended for: 17 and up, due to gore, violence, nudity
Your review had me LOL! and making a mental note to avoid this one like the plague…or meetings!