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The Canal

    • Director

      Ivan Kavanagh

    • Credits

      Producers:

      AnneMarie Naughton
      Vaughan Sivell

      Cinematography
      Piers McGrail

    • Principal Cast

      Rupert Evans
      Antonia Cambell Hughes
      Calum Heath
      Hannah Hoekstra
      Steve Oram

  • Category

    Feature
    Horror

Cinema archivist David Williams (Rupert Evans) lives with his wife, Alice (Hannah Hoekstra), and their five-year-old son, Billy (Calum Heath). All seems well until David begins to suspect that Alice is cheating on him. His anxiety is compounded by a bizarre coincidence at work: cataloguing a film reel from 1902, he learns that his home was the site of a series of brutal murders by a man named William Jackson, who killed his wife and drowned both of their children in the nearby canal. As David’s suspicions grow, he becomes convinced that a supernatural presence inhabits his house and never wants him or his family to leave.
Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

92 minutes, Ireland, 2014, Colour

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