A Dowager prepares for her birthday party. A young couple are on the run. A mysterious man in black watches from the shadows. Four rooms. One evening. Nothing is quite as it seems.
Acting
Juliet Stevenson serves aristocratic menace in under 8 minutes of screen time.
Direction
Sheridan wrings Hitchcock-level tension from four hotel rooms and a hallway.
Editing
Razor-sharp cross-cutting makes 19 minutes feel like a feature's worth of dread.
Director
Jennifer Sheridan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single location over two days on a micro-budget, proving Sheridan's background in music videos taught her economy of dread.
The title's numerical pun—four rooms, four characters, but also 'for' whom is this violence performed?—rewards repeat viewings once the interconnectedness becomes clear.
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