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The Canal
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- 2014
- Ivan Kavanagh
- 93 mins
- 15
Summary
Horror mystery starring Rupert Evans and Antonia Campbell Hughes. Strange happenings prompt a film archivist to delve into the murky past of the house where he now lives with his wife and young son.
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Alan Jones
Making the most of its modest attributes and a wrenching central performance by TV regular and Hellboy veteran Rupert Evans, this Irish chiller lurches from unspoken eeriness to outright horror as it plots a familiar paranormal trajectory. Evans plays a film archivist who moves into a beautiful period house by a scenic canal with his wife and young son. Learning his new residence was the scene of a ghastly early-20th-century murder, he discovers actual newsreel of the event just as he learns his wife is having a torrid affair. When her body turns up in the canal, he's convinced malevolent spirits lurking within the walls of his home must be responsible. Ivan Kavanagh directs the unsettling combination of straightforward old-school terror and vintage found-footage with a no-frills professionalism heavy on ambiguity, dark atmosphere and creeping unease. Steve Oram (Sightseers) adds welcome light touches as a deadpan policeman.
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rolenameDavidRupert Evans (2)ClaireAntonia Campbell-HughesAliceHannah HoekstraSophieKelly ByrneMcNamaraSteve OramBilly WilliamsCalum HeathWilliam JacksonPadraig CurranAlexCarl ShaabanMarieAnneke BlokMargaret JacksonAlicja Ayres
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rolenameDirectorIvan Kavanagh
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Theatrical distributor
Kaleidoscope
Released on
2015-05-08
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sex scenes.
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Colour
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