At a forgotten roadside motel, a detective checks into Room 6, chasing a rumor about something behind the closet door. Inside, silence becomes a trap — and something else decides to wear his face.
At the edge of a forgotten American town, under flickering neon lights, stands the Starlight Inn — a roadside motel that’s seen too many nights and too few guests. When a detective arrives to investigate reports of strange noises coming from the long-abandoned Room 6, he’s met not with answers, but with silence, cigarette smoke, and the lingering sense that someone — or something — is waiting. The bored night receptionist gives him the key with a smirk and a warning disguised as a joke. Inside, the detective finds nothing unusual: a clean bed, still air, a wardrobe standing quietly by the wall. But as he opens it, reality begins to shift. In the faint glow of his Zippo lighter, the hanging coats look strangely familiar — identical to his own. Then, from the darkness between them, something reaches out. What follows is a brief, violent struggle in near-total darkness — a collision of identity and imitation. The next thing we see is movement: a figure emerging from the wardrobe wearing the detective’s clothes and his face, but not his eyes. Room 6 is a three-minute AI-generated short horror film that blends noir atmosphere with psychological dread. It explores repetition, transformation, and the eerie fragility of self — a story about what happens when you confront the part of you that isn’t you anymore.
The Threshold has been officially selected and honored at international film festivals.
Written, Directed and AI-Generated by Jacek Kadaj
Jacek Kadaj is a Warsaw-based filmmaker, photographer, and AI artist with over 30 years of experience in traditional cinema. Trained as a cinematographer, he has collaborated with National Geographic and Getty Images, earned numerous photography awards, and presented his work in international exhibitions. In recent years, he has embraced generative AI as a new creative lens, producing award-winning AI films that blend poetic imagery with emotional depth. His work seeks to explore whether technology can capture — and even amplify — the fragility, tension, and beauty of human stories.
Director's statement
Room 6 started from an image I couldn’t get out of my head — a lonely motel on the edge of nowhere, flickering neon, and a man who enters a room that shouldn’t exist. I wanted to make a film that feels like something you might find on an old VHS tape at midnight — nostalgic, unsettling, and strangely intimate. The story is built around a simple noir setup: a detective, a mystery, and a room. But beneath that, it’s about repetition and identity — about what happens when you confront a version of yourself that doesn’t belong to you anymore. The horror in Room 6 isn’t about monsters, but about imitation — that quiet, disturbing moment when something almost human moves just a little too perfectly.
All characters and events in this film are fictional and AI-generated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.










