Exorcism Film, found footage film, Ghost, Horror, thriller film
The film tells the story of an "old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England that has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realise that belief in a myth can quickly materialise into reality, bringing horror to life for the town."
The film tells the story of two men and two women, who leave from a plague-ridden ship and reach the Malayan jungle. The relationships between the four people before they enter the jungle are examined and are transformed as they interact with natural phenomena and the natives who populate the jungle. The film also relates how each of the four people carried on in life after they emerged from the jungle.
The plot portrays the Swedish government as being responsible for using the ship to covertly transport Russian high-tech components to the United States. The story is uncovered by a young female journalist, not unlike Rabe herself. According to Rabe, divers hired by the Swedish government (signing contracts swearing lifetime secrecy) spent hours breaking into cabins frantically searching for a black attaché case carried by a Russian space technology dealer, Aleksandr Voronin (who died 2002).
Jack (Ray Liotta) awakes with amnesia in the middle of the desert. Suffering from violent flashbacks, he finds his way to the home of reclusive artist Vicky Robinson (Gloria Reuben), who agrees to help him uncover his past. While Jack's flashbacks become more violent and vivid, the pieces of his past slowly come together.
The film's title character, Francis, lives with his invalid, abusive mother Sal in a dingy tenement apartment, and has suffered a life of unrelenting misfortune and brutality, further impacted by a stutter. Over time, he has withdrawn from the world and into himself, silently observing others rather than interacting with them. His only solace has been his Catholic faith, but he has begun to question his belief in a loving God who could countenance so much evil and pain.
Mid-level drug dealers Eddie and Frank grow restless with their limited growth potential and set up a meeting with their supplier, Madsen. Instead of negotiating, Frank impulsively murders Madsen and takes his cocaine. Eddie's excitement quickly turns to apprehension when he hears about Madsen's death, but Frank talks him into bluffing their way back into drug lord Vincent Camastra's good graces.
Charles Bradley, a newspaper editor, establishes contact with Kim, a whistleblower with evidence of corrupt Los Angeles Police Department officers dealing stolen drugs. The pair agree to meet so Kim can give Charles his evidence in exchange for a cash payment. A private investigator working for Charles to monitor the corrupt officers has his cover blown and breaks into the apartment of Charles's son Joey, where he hides a wiretap recording of Charles and Kim's conversation before being killed by Ryan, one of the corrupt cops.
Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One afternoon, her teenage daughter, Randy, mentions running into a man who tells her she reminds him of someone he once knew. Crystal, already jumpy and unable to sleep, knows that this man is her mobster husband, Steve.
On the island city of Palma de Mallorca, David Norton promotes his latest book, The Kovak Box before a small private gathering of European fans. While nothing unusual happens, one of the audience members has a distinctive Russian Mafia arm tattoo, and the hotel concierges are subtly condescending towards Norton, despite the writer's mannered patronage and celebrity status. Later in the evening, Norton's fiancée, Jane, receives an anonymous phone call and jumps off their hotel balcony.
Martin Ryan is a Detroit columnist with mob ties. He meets Caprice, a stripper with a dark past. When his best friend Doc helps sell a film deal based on his writings to a Hollywood studio, Martin chooses between fame or saving his girlfriend Sara.
When the captain of the merchant vessel S.S. Berwind dies, Ed Rummill is offered the job. He accepts, even as he is warned of recent problems aboard the ship, now moored at New Zealand.
When the sudden and shocking death of a coworker sends everyone reeling at Gault Capital, Jane Porter (Sarah Butler), uncovers a very dangerous secret. Her boss, charismatic billionaire Thaddeus Gault (Malcolm McDowell), is suspected of massive financial fraud. An assassin, Frank (D.B.
A small-time criminal called Hoodz finds success robbing stores and small businesses, finally catching the jackpot by attacking a big drug dealer for his stash of money and drugs. Gunz, an undercover police officer posing as a member in his squad, is failing to make regular contact to his commanding officers and is increasingly becoming extremely content with the idea of being one of the members in Hoodz's crew. The police begin to view him as a suspect like all the rest.
Two criminals who are also lovers, Ned and Jude, kill three people in a jewelry store robbery. Ned is caught but escapes and vows revenge on Jude, who pushed him out of the getaway car. Ned is joined in his hunt for Jude by a woman hitchhiker named Bec.
The evening of December 23, Moreau, a reporter for Agence France-Presse (AFP), is asked by his editor to find out why Fèvre-Berthier, the French delegate to the United Nations, did not attend that day's meeting of the General Assembly. Moreau talks to McKimmie, an information officer at the UN, who does not know anything, but mentions Fèvre-Berthier's family is also trying to find the diplomat, and then Fèvre-Berthier's secretary, who suggests he may be with a woman, but does not know who or where. At a dead end, Moreau asks his friend Delmas, an alcoholic tabloid photographer, for help.
As written in the article by Movies News Week, the main character of Josh Pratt (played by Colin Egglesfield) is on the verge of becoming a partner at a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, but then his life is turned upside down when the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates the head of the fund for insider trading. Pratt finds himself forced into a “vacation” he never asked for; he ends up in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is deeply involved with the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. Unfortunately for Pratt, the only way out is to give up information he does not know he has.
The story depicts a young woman, Mona, living in London with her family of Pakistani origins. Mona has a boyfriend of whom her family do not approve, and believe the relationship to be a blight on the family's honour. After plans to elope fail, Mona is forced to go on the run from her family, who attempt to locate and punish her, which will likely lead to her being killed.
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiancé, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame the dashing, but roguish, former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan gets her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father cannot offer him financial support. Two years later, she having been told that Glennan is dead – has married Kearn, and they keep Glennan's son.
Susan Wilcox is a young woman who was raped by an unknown man when she was 13. Traumatized by the experience, she suffered a mental breakdown, did not speak a word for two years, and was entered in a Swiss sanatorium. Upon leaving the psychiatric institution for the first time, she returns to her old home where her mother, Miriam, is now in an unstable marriage with Harold Jennings, an alcoholic.
