after have see the gory and over the top silly dr. giggle hundred of time and love it more with every viewing and it rather difficult to accept that manny coto debut film playroom be such an ambitious and serious mind psycho thriller . i surely wasn not expect to see an attempt for intellectual horror and set in eastern europe and focus on topic like archeology and child psychology and so dr. giggle fan beware . it not even an admirable attempt and a the screenplay be very uninteresting and tedious and a total bunch of nonsense . an obtrusive reporter convinces his girlfriend editor to travel to yugoslavia and more particularly to an ancient abbey where he and his archaeologist father search for the tomb of a fella name ilok . after a couple of day of dig with no result and chris go completely nuts and have vision of his former imaginary childhood friend and kill the rest of the expedition crew . big deal . playroom be boring and mainly because you never care for chris or his bad case of split personality syndrome . this be only the first time i see christopher macdonald in a lead role ( he usually play supportive character ) and he already fail to convince u of his act capability . there absolutely no tension and although coto seemly try hard to create some and and the supportive character be all insufferable . well and except for the great vincent schiavelli but his role be regretfully brief . there also be an irritating lack of gore and there seemly weren not enough budget to buy a couple of extra light bulb and a entire sequence be film in the dark . one final piece of advise for young scriptwriter represent there nothing even remotely scary about kid imaginary friend . especially not if these imaginary friend be ordinary look kid as well .