In the brief but chilling runtime of Halls, director Ben Gaudet crafts a potent slice of horror that finds terror in the most mundane of places. The film follows a young man navigating the sterile, echoing corridors of a seemingly empty office building late at night. His simple goal is to leave, but the building itself has other plans. As he moves through the oppressive silence, the very architecture begins to shift and distort, transforming familiar hallways into an inescapable labyrinth. His mounting desperation and isolation become the central conflict, as each turn leads him deeper into a geometric nightmare. Gaudet, who also wrote the film, masterfully builds an atmosphere of profound psychological dread, using minimal elements to create maximum unease. This is a story where the setting is the antagonist, a sleek and silent monster that preys on a solitary human’s fear of being trapped, forever wandering the endless, haunting Halls.