Splice

Release Date: June 4th, 2010

Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett, Stephanie Baird, Abigail Chu

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Writer: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor

Studio: Senator Entertainment

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Runtime:1 hour 30 minutes

Two genetic engineers Clive and Elsa are engaged in a very specific job, connected with DNA research and experiments. Their current task is to splice DNA taken from different kinds of animals in order to create new hybrids, which would possess the specified qualities and abilities.

The last research, the couple takes part in, is the attempt to create a new hybrid by using the human DNA. But when the work comes to the final steps, the pharmaceutical company, sponsoring the revolutionary investigation, decides to stop the project and forbid further experiments.

But Clive and Elsa do not agree with the politics of the company. At their own risk they continue their secret work with human DNA, promising to become a great sensation in medicine and science. After their last experiment the dream of the engineers comes true. They manage to create a fantastically beautiful creature, whose incredible intelligence is well combined with super physical power.

But as soon as Dren grows and learns with the unexpectedly fast speed, his abilities start to threaten his inventors. And the cleverer Dren becomes, the more nightmarish becomes the life of Clive and Elsa, and the more evident they realize, what they have done…

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The Jailhouse

Release Date: May 4th, 2010

Starring: Ken Aguilar, Siri Baruc, Darren Dalton, Brody Docar, Bill George

Director: Billy Lewis

Writer: Billy Lewis, Brandon Luck

Studio: 3L Productions

Genre:Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes

“The Jailhouse” is a mysterious thriller, the events of which take place in North Carolina and are connected with the Colton jail. The jailhouse, which hasn’t used more than 30 years, became occupied by the family of a jailer in 1900. They lived on the first floor, while the second floor was meant for prisoners. This is a prehistory of the old jailhouse.

In the time about 2006 the local Sheriff of Colton allows a family of Seth Delray (a newcomer Colton deputy) to stay in the jailhouse without any rent. The Delray family takes his offer with pleasure and intends to live there for a while, until their new house is reconstructed.

The fire at the current jail makes the Sheriff to remove its six criminals into the upper floor of the old jail. This unexpected decision totally changes the quiet life of Delray’s family.

Alongside with the prisoners, there is another threat, terrifying all the lodgers of the jail. The spirits of dead from the past appear within the place and force the present world into total chaos. No one is sure anymore, where he is now and what world is dominating in his mind at the moment.

The plot of “The Jailhouse”, written and directed by Billy Lewis, is well provided by chilling and shocking moments throughout the film.

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The New Daughter

Release Date: May 18th, 2010

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Gattlin Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Noah Taylor

Director: Luis Berdejo

Writer: John Travis, John Connolly

Studio: Anchor Bay Films

Genre: Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes

After a painful divorce John (Kevin Costner) - a father of two children tries to start his life again. Moved to a farm place, he makes attempts to rebuild his family with his youngest son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) on his hands and a teenage daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero), who both stayed with their father after the divorce.

Soon after removal John begins to notice, that something strange is going to his daughter. First he considers her to be in the difficult age period, but troublesome Louisa doesn’t allow him to breath with relieve. He puts his abilities as a good father under question because of her, but soon realizes, there is another reason of her troubling behavior. The girl suffers from sudden attacks of panic and frustrations, and John seems to have found why it happens to her. There is a burial mound on the field not far from John’s farm, and he suspects it causes Louisa’s fears. Soon John understands that his family is in imminent danger.

“The New Daughter” is a mysterious thriller, based on the original story written by John Connolly and adapted by John Travis. Directed by Luis Berdejo, the film touches upon supernatural and mortal danger it causes.

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Dead Hooker in a Trunk

Release Date: May 14th, 2010

Starring: Rikki Gagne, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, C.J. Wallis, John Tench

Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska

Writer: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska

Studio: Twisted Twins Productions

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes

“Dead Hooker in a Trunk” is a horror film, created by twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska and Twisted Twins Productions. Four friends are set in Vancouver, where the story of their fight for life begins from. The starting point of all the terrible events, happening to Badass, Geek, Goody Two Shoes and Junkie, becomes the dead body of hooker, which they have found in the trunk of their car.

The friends have to overcome their differences in order to withstand all the horror of the situation, they have got into. How to get rid of the corpse is not the only thing they have to think over. Chasing by the police, facing the suspicions of a motel manager and followed by the Cowboy Pimp, who wants to appropriate the corpse, the four friends have nothing to do but uncover the murder. Otherwise their own lives will be under question, as far as the serial killer, who stays behind this murder, soon reaches them one by one.

The film is full of all horror attributes, necessary to thrilling the audience to the bones. Gun fights, bloody scenes, brutality accompanied with the pictures of gore, guts and more – all these will surely be to the horror lovers’ taste. Starring in the film are its producers Jen and Sylvia Soska, as well as Rikki Gagne, C.J. Wallis and John Tench.

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Micmacs

Release Date: May 28th, 2010

Starring: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

“Micmacs” is a dramatic story of a man called Bazil (Dany Boon), who has become an orphan in his childhood. The father of a boy died because of the mine explosion in Moroccan desert. The next terrible accident happened to Bazil himself. It was the accident, which totally destroyed all his life and his hopes for the great future ahead of him. Bazil has been shot by someone. With a bullet in his head, he had to stay in the hospital for a long time, with lots of doctors around him, trying to save him.

Leaving the hospital, Bazil finds out, that he has nothing at all, neither closes friends, who could help him, nor home. He has lost the job and doesn’t have any means of subsistence. Homeless and in despair, Bazil finds finally the ray of hope in his life: the group of people, who are working as secondhand dealers. Being a part of a friendly gang (Buster, Calculator, Elastic Girl, Mama Chow, Remington, Slammer, Tiny Pete) and living in a strange place that looks more like a cave than a house, Bazil tries to find those, who made the hole in his head. Bazil’s friends help him to take vengeance on offenders for his destroyed life.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “Micmacs” represents strong friendship of bosom friends, who are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of friendship and justice.

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George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Release Date: May 28th, 2010

Starring: Devon Bostick, Julian Richings, Athena Karkanis, Kathleen Munroe, Richard Fitzpatrick

Director: George A. Romero

Writer: George A. Romero

Studio: Magnet Releasing (Magnolia Pictures)

Genre: Horror

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

“Survival of the Dead" is a horror film, which continues traditions of its 6 films-predecessors, released earlier under George A. Romero direction. The film follows the events, happened in "Diary of the Dead”, the main idea of which is a non-stop confrontation between humans and zombies.

The story takes place on a remote island off the Delaware coast. Plum Island, as it is called, is a cozy place, inhabited by two powerful clans: O'Flynns and Muldoons.  Besides the place is full of zombies, who represent a real threat for life of all the inhabitants. People die one by one in the families, and the population is endangered. Moreover, the situation gets more complicated because of the conflicting views of the clans.

O'Flynns thinks that all of undead must be killed without exception. Muldoons believe that it would be better to isolate some zombies for a while, until the remedy against them is found someday. But soon it becomes evident, that the forces of zombie outnumber the human ones. And as far as the struggle between alive and undead escalates, it comes to bloody violence and brutality, resulting by thrilling scenes, chilling the viewer to the bone. 

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The Square

Release Date: April 9th, 2010

Director: Nash Edgerton

Writer: Joel Edgerton, Matthew Dabner

Starring: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton, Anthony Hayes, Lisa Bailey, Lucy Bell, Paul Caesar, Mia Chippendale, Thomas Chippendale, Amanda Crompton

Studio: Blue-Tongue Films

Genre: Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

Terribly tired from the everyday’s routine, Raymond seems to have found a way out. So long as he is not crazy about his work and not happy in his marriage, the main hero takes his chance in a new love affair. His new and beautiful girlfriend called Carla, although is not an angel. Meeting her causes a bunch of troubles for Raymond. First of all, thanks to Carla the man gets involved into her doubtful plan, concerning the money of her husband with a criminal past. The plan they developed is to appropriate his money and run, what can be easier?

Being afraid to lose Carla’s love and respect, Ray has to find the means of doing it. They hire a professional incendiary, but his actions went wrong. The fair alarm sounds, and their attempt to get the money fails. Moreover, now they have to deal with rising suspicions around this case.

Fortunately, the suspicions and talks about firing seem to be settled soon, and now Ray and Carla can breathe with relief… Nobody knows what they have done.  But nothing of the kind! As soon as the first blackmail letter arrives, the couple understands: that is not the end.

Got stuck between anonymous threats and fearing Carla’s husband, the couple has to do something to escape a disclosure.

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The Secret in Their Eyes

Release Date:April 16th, 2010

Director:Juan José Campanella

Writer:Juan José Campanella, Eduardo Sacheri

Starring:Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino,Guillermo Francella, José Luis Gioia, Carla Quevedo, Rudy Romano, Mario Alarcón, Alejandro Abelenda

Studio:Sony Pictures Classics

Genre:Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Runtime:2 hours 07 minutes

The former court worker Benjamin Espósito from Argentina, thirty years after the case of murder, couldn’t accept the verdict in the court and believed it was mistaken. All these years he couldn’t sleep quietly and was thinking about it. So the man decided to investigate the case again.

Benjamin was sure that he can find the real murderer and solve the mystery. He tried to assure the others to open the case again and renew the investigation.

Besides the desire to investigate the case, Benjamin starts to write a book describing the whole story of a rape. It was the case of a young couple who faced terrible crime soon after their wedding. The girl was brutally raped and killed in her own house, when her husband was away at work. Led by personal feelings and thoughts, young Benjamin Espósito was supposed to investigate this case, but that time he was too much carried away to think soberly. Moreover, politicians and some officials didn’t give the case the right way. Tangled in the investigation, Benjamin didn’t act properly. Only thirty years later he decided to restore justice that could give him the opportunity to live at ease.

The film represents such genres as drama and thriller and is based on the events, described in the book written by Eduardo Sacheri.

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The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Release Date: April 28th, 2010

Director: Tom Six

Writer:T om Six

Starring: Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie

Studio:I FC Films

Genre: Drama, Horror

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

 “The Human Centipede” is a horror film, directed by Tom Six, describing the terrible events that take part in Germany.

Two young girls from America travel by car, but their journey suddenly ends up in a strange place. Forced to stop in an unknown wood, they have to repair their car. In search for help and shelter, the girls find an isolated house and its owner. The man presents himself as a surgeon, who conducts the experiments and helps to separate Siamese twins. The girls are happy to have a place, where they can spend the night, and that there is someone over here, who could help them to fix the car. But in the morning next day they wake up in a basement with one more girl. The things get even more terrible, when they find out, that Dr. Heiter is going to run another experiment, trying to implement his life-time dream - to create a real “human centipede”. The horrible surgeon wants to connect the bodies of three girls; he has, and become a prominent and unique surgeon in the world history.

Frightened to death of the fact, that all of them will be joined together in one creature via gastric system, the girls try to find the way out. Is it possible to do something to escape for the girls? The crazy surgeon is ready to perform his terrible actions…

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The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

Release Date: April 9th, 2010

Director: Gabriel Bologna

Writer: Michael Berenson, Gabriel Bologna, Sean Clark

Starring: Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, Sean Lawlor, James Duval,Nick Mennell, Mircea Monroe, Arcadiy Golubovich, Electra Avellan, Elise Avellan, Walker Howard

Studio: Parallel Media

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes

“The Black Waters of Echo's Pond” is a psychological thriller, directed by Gabriel Bologna. The film is full of supernatural horrors producing by a mysterious game, having a nightmare hidden deep inside of it.

Nine friends decide to spend one of their weekends on a private island in Maine. Having stayed in a house, belonging to a Victorian epoch, they uncover there an archaic board game. While drinking and talking, friends find themselves soon deeply involved in the game they have found. But playing the game unleashes the dangerous monster. The evil reveals and awakes in all the players their weakest sides, buried before deep in their consciousness. Lust, greed, jealousy, hatred and rage manifest themselves in their most terrifying way. People, who have been playing the game, can no longer keep in touch in a normal way and start to behave as if they hate each other and soon become dangerous and absolutely uncontrolled.

"The Black Waters of Echo's Pond" opens each player, who has looked into, his own true dreams, but these dreams seem to have nothing in common with the real state of things…

In some way the film reminds the well-known “Jumandji”, based on the similar scenario, concerned with a board game mysteries and horrors.

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Pornography

Release Date: April 16th, 2010

Director: David Kittredge

Writer: David Kittredge

Starring: Matthew Montgomery, Pete Scherer, Jared Grey, Walter Delmar, Nick Salamone, Dylan Vox, Wyatt Fenner, Sean Abley, Steve Callahan, Jon Gale

Studio: Triple Fire Productions

Genre: Mystery

Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes

Three mysterious stories, touching upon dark sides of human being are represented in the horrifying thriller “Pornography”. The events of these stories are some way connected with each other and intersect throughout the film.

The first episode takes place in 1995 with a porn star Mark Anton. His manager Billy offers him forty thousand dollars for only one interview with Mark’s greatest fan. While Mark Anton is thinking out the proposal, the manager dies accidentally from a botched robbery. Nevertheless a porn star decides to take the offer and finds the way and the place, where the interview is to be shot. But the situation, he gets into, escalate a real nightmare.

The second story happens several years later in New York City. Michael, a hard-working writer, and his boyfriend William move into a new large apartment, situated in Brooklyn. Michael is engaged in researching a pornography book. Soon he begins to find strange photos in his mailbox and discovers the fact, that the apartment they live in has a dark past. A bit later he founds a video tape, damaged and hidden in one of the walls. The tape, which is connected with Mark Anton…

The third episode happens in our days in Los Angeles. A porn star Matt Stevens wakes from a bloody nightmare, which makes him to start writing a three-act thriller about pornography. He dreams to produce a film “The Mark Anton History”, and this dream brings him into a real hell…

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In My Sleep

Release Date:April 23rd, 2010

Director:Allen Wolf

Writer:Allen Wolf

Starring:Philip Winchester, Tim Draxl, Lacey Chabert, Abigail Spencer,Beth Grant, Kelly Overton, Michael Badalucco, Tony Hale,Kevin Kilner, Amy Aquino

Studio:Morning Star Pictures

Genre:Drama, Thriller

Runtime:1 hour 45 minutes

The dramatic thriller “In My Sleep” directed by Allen Wolf with the brilliant actor Philip Winchester as Marcus tells about a young man, who suffers a terrible and unusual sleep disorder. The problem is that every time he wakes up he can’t remember his actions during the sleep. Marcus can walk, talk and behave like a normal man, who is not sleeping. But these actions are not always too good and some of them terrify the hero.

Trying to get solve his problem, Marcus joins the group of people who suffer different diseases, having something in common with his case. In such a way he tries to receive support from the others.

But the events turn terrible and night walks of Marcus are appeared to be awful. First accident was, when Marcus found himself in one bad with his best friend’s wife Ann (Kelly Overton). Ann begged Marcus to conceal the fact of their affair from her husband Justin (Tim Draxl). And the second event was, when Marcus woke up with the knife next to him, covered with blood. And the dead person was Ann. Shocked and desperate, Marcus tries to find the key to this story and is afraid that he could be the Ann’s killer.

Coming to SA group with his problem, Marcus gets acquainted with Gwen (Abigail Spencer), who supports him and tries to investigate the case.

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The Eclipse

Release Date: March 26th, 2010

Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn, Dorothy Cotter, Eanna Hardwicke

Director: Conor McPherson

Writer: Conor McPherson, Billy Roche

Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes

Michael Farr is a widower, who lost his wife two years ago. He lives not far from Irish seashore with his two children, of whom he cares by himself. Still suffering from the emotional trauma, caused by his wife’s death, Michael tries to find a way out. But the situation gets even more stressful, when he starts seeing and hearing terrifying apparitions at nights. The man is puzzled and frightened by these phenomena and doesn’t know whether they are just his nightmares, or real ghosts, living in the house.

The town, where Farr and his family live, starts the annual literary festival, where Michael works as a volunteer. By chance he gets acquainted with Lena, an author of supernatural fiction. He tells her about his night visions and fears. Lena tries to help Michael to get rid of these apparitions, but at the same time she has to solve her own problems, connected with her brief and unpromising relation with the novelist Nicholas Holden.

Further the events of the plot twist around these three adults, whose ways crossed at the same place and at the same time. And the more Michael and Nicholas collide with each other, the more vivid visions come to Michael, and the more powerful the phenomena get…

“The Eclipse” was written and directed by Irish dramatist Conor McPherson.

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Harry Brown

Release Date: April 30th, 2010

Director: Daniel Barber

Writer: Gary Young

Starring: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Iain Glen, Sean Harris, Ben Drew, Jack O'Connell,Jamal Downey, Lee Oakes

Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Genre: Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes

A 77-year-old former serviceman called Harry Brown (Michael Caine) faces uneasy life in the world around him, where the young generation is so cruel and join in criminal bands, inspiring fear among the people. Visiting his wife in the hospital and his only best friend Leonard (David Bradley) isn’t an easy task in the suburbs of London. Harry has to think twice before visiting his dear people, in order not to meet with hooligans.

But one day the events went worse. Leonard was killed by the gangsters, whose Harry tried to step aside. It has become the last drop in the patience of an old man.

Harry Brown couldn’t but take vengeance on the hooligans for his best fiend Leonard. Having absorbed in the dark world of gangsters, Harry buys the gun and tries to do everything possible to find the killer and get even with him. The scenes of the thriller “Harry Brown” are getting especially unsurpassed and chilling, when an old man finds himself having a deal with the local drug lord. In addition to Harry’s investigation, the police also tries to find out the conditions and circumstances of Leonard’s death. The traces bring them soon to the gangsters, so Harry has the chance to revenge his best friend’s death on the hooligans.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Release Date:April 30th, 2010

Director:Samuel Bayer

Writer:Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer, Wes Craven

Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, Lia D. Mortensen, Charles E Tiedje

Studio:Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:Drama, Horror, Thriller

Rating: for for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror, and language.

The bloody nightmare is back on the big screen. The surpassed Freddy Krueger, the horror of those who fell asleep, returns to his fans in a new remake, filmed by New Line Cinema under Samuel Bayer direction. Having a long and thrilling prehistory, the new film is based on the original series of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" released in 1984 and directed by famous Wes Craven.

Jackie Earle Haley in the role of Krueger, who has become an eternal veteran of the horror series, appears before the audience again.

The new scenario was written in cooperation of two prominent screenwriters: Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, including the original parts, which belong to the pen of Wes Craven himself.

Several teenagers living in suburbs have something in common. All of them fear to fall asleep. The reason of their fears is hidden deep inside of the dreams, coming to them every night. As long as the guys are awake, they have nothing to be afraid of. But when it comes to a sleep time, they get into Freddy Krueger’s grasp. Those, who don’t manage to escape the monstrous lord of nightmares in their dreams, will “awake” dead in reality.

The film touches upon the psychological aspect of nightmares and starts a new trilogy of the famous bloody thriller.

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After.Life

Release Date: April 9th, 2010

Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Writer: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, Paul Vosloo, Jakub Korolczuk

Starring: Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Josh Charles, Celia Weston, Chandler Canterbury, Anna Kuchma, Rosemary Murphy, Shuler Hensley, Malachy McCourt

Studio: Anchor Bay Films

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes

The terrifying and mystical story of a girl called Anna who was between two extremes (death and life) is described in a thriller “After.Life”. Christina Ricci in the role of Anna was frightened to death, when she understood, that she would be buried soon.

Anna became conscious after the accident that had happened to her in a car crash, and found out she had to be buried. Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) was the main person who organized the ceremony. The funeral director persuaded the girl, that she was dead and that he was a person, who had the tie between the other world and the world of living people. Anne was about to leave the Earth and this world.

Having nothing but believe her own death, Anna went with the flow. The only person who didn’t want to accept the fact of Anna’s death was her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long). Paul suspected, that the death of his beloved was somehow connected with Eliot and was not real. Step by step Paul unravels the terrible truth and tries to do everything possible to save Anna and prevent the funeral ceremony.

The film “After.Life” makes the audience think over the sense of life and death and see how thin the line between them can be.

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Stolen

Release Date: March 12th, 2010

Starring: Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm, Jimmy Bennett, Rhona Mitra, James Van Der Beek

Director: Anders Anderson

Writer: Glenn Taranto

Studio: A2 Entertainment Group

Genre: Drama, Тhriller

Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes

Perfectly directed thriller “Stolen” describes us a father who has lost his son. He cannot live quietly without the information about the killer of his dear boy. The desperate father tires to find out the truth and punish the offender…

Being a successful detective, Jon Hamm in the role of Tom Adkins is a father, who wants to establish the justice. Tommy Jr., his son, was only 10 years old, when one day he suddenly disappeared. And there were no traces of him, no witnesses or facts, that could help his father’s grief.

But the event that happened one morning would cast light on an intricate case. Starting to investigate the case of a murdered boy, whose remains were found 50 years after his death, the detective perceives the similarity to the case of his own son.

The facts of the investigation bring the detective Tom Adkins to the house of a man named Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas). He gets to know that Matthew has a strange son John, who is insane. The details of the case become more and more evident. But these details are very horrible. Step by step the detective gets to know the way, his son was killed. Living with the only desire – to punish the murderer, Tom Adkins is now as close to his mission as possible.