Mystery

No Right Turn

No Right Turn poster Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook. She is quite fed up of her current lifestyle especially the drunken dreams of Johnny and, to escape from her weary life she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy. One night after an argument with Johnny, she storms home where she is abducted by a pair of thugs and is fortunately rescued by a timid and guilt-ridden girl, Monella.

Even though they are from two very different worlds, they quickly become close friends and sooth each other lives.

Johnny hearing about Nina’s ordeal with the thugs, sadly attempts to win her heart back by going on a crazy revenge spree. This scares Nina off even more. Nina eventually tells Monella of her ploy of escaping from Johnny’s seedy world by conspiring to steal his much talked about hidden stash, stored in a safety deposit box deep in the neon city.

Monella reluctantly agrees to help…and we follow each of their dangerously entangled lives until their ultimate and timely fate.

No Right Turn is a haunting fairy-tale thriller set between snowy landscapes and a neon city.

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Dorothy Mills

Dorothy Mills poster Jane Morton, a psychiatrist from Dublin in deep mourning following the accidental death of her husband and son, is assigned to work on the case of Dorothy Mills, a teenaged girl in a small village who tried to strangle a baby. After miraculously surviving a car accident, Jane discovers a village darkened by strange events and meets a very nervous Dorothy, who swears she never touched the baby. After analyzing the teenager, Jane makes a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder until the day that Dorothy speaks with the voice of David, Jane’s dead son.

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Who Saw Her Die?

Who Saw Her Die? DVD The mists that wreathe the eerie city of Venice become the hunting ground for a faceless child killer that seemingly cannot be stopped in the taut and brilliant thriller, Who Saw Her Die? (released 28th July 2008) directed by Aldo Lado (Night Train Murders). Rigid with tense atmospheric style, this film bears an uncanny resemblance in mood to the classic Don’t Look Now but was actually made a year before. Boasting starkly evocative cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo (Il Postino) and a score by Ennio Morricone, Who Saw Her Die? (Chi l’ha vista morire?) haunts the mind long after viewing it.

Who Saw Her Die? hits DVD on July 28th courtesy of the good folks at Shameless Screen Entertainment

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Poland Nights

Poland Nights poster After a meteorite impact, a small polish village fall into a parallel dimension. A television crew goes on to investigates, but little do they know that their reporter just escaped from a mental institute.

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Phantom of Death

Phantom of Death DVD Michael York stars as piano virtuoso Robert Dominici who suddenly contracts a devastating disease that ages him rapidly. With death closing in fast a decaying Robert abandons tinkling the ivories to instead embark on an arpeggio of vicious slaughter upon anyone who finds out about his impending gruesome fate!

Closing in fast to try and end this crescendo of violence is Police Inspector Datti, played by the seasoned psychopath chasing Donald Pleasence. Will he solve this mystery? Not before you’ve enjoyed a long and lingering symphony of superbly gory set pieces!

Phantom of Death (Un Delitto Poco Comune) was released on UK DVD on October 1st by Shameless Screen Entertainment.

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Fragments

Fragments poster Fragments is a double-murder-mystery with fast paced twist after twist after twist. It is being filmed digitally and will be presented in black-and-white.

The film is directed, written and produced by Ross Nickson, under his Dubious Films production banner.

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Saxon

Saxon Saxon is a 90-minute drama that lives in the same dark alley as Dead Man’s Shoes and Trainspotting. The basic story runs along classic lines: a reformed bad man is compelled to undertake a desperate mission which unleashes the demons of his past. On a journey through revenge, hope and horror, the narrative unfolds at the gripping pace of a good thriller.

London, the present. Soon after leaving prison, Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie’s other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash, Eddie phones Linda, a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing, feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth, and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon: the place where he grew up, the place where his mother works as a prostitute, the place where he murdered a bailiff.

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Sleuth

Sleuth poster In Sleuth, a millionaire detective novelist (Michael Caine) matches wits against an unemployed actor (Jude Law) who ran off with his wife in a deadly serious and seriously twisted game with dangerous consequences.

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The 4th Dimension

Poster for The 4th Dimension The 4th Dimension is a meditative examination into the mind of an introverted genius who obsesses to solve the complexity of time. The 4th Dimension explores the dark and lonely world between dreams and reality.

Jack is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock, unexplainable events begin to occur. After finding Albert Einstein’s journal on his still unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack becomes compulsive about analysing time and theorizing its connection to his supernatural experiences, his surreal dreams, and his perception of reality, only to lead to the discovery of the biggest mystery of all - himself.

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Deadwing

Deadwing David is a loner, submersed in his job as a sound designer. Late one night he spots something in the film rushes that he cannot explain. This event, and a chance encounter with the mysterious Elizabeth, leads him down the winding path of his subconscious where he has to confront his past head on.

The writers of Deadwing are Mike Bennion and Steven Wilson. Mike directs TV commercials, music videos, the occasional short film. Steven is singer/songwriter/lead guitarist of the bands Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Blackfield and Bass Communion. Mike plans to direct this movie, Steve to compose the soundtrack.

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