Absentia Page #3

Synopsis: Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house. As she begins to link it to other mysterious disappearances, it becomes clear that Daniel's presumed death might be anything but 'natural.' The ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia ... and Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director(s): Mike Flanagan
Production: Phase 4 Films
  12 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
2011
87 min
Website
473 Views


And you say you do not know what you had breakfast yesterday. You are lying.

Liar! - That's it.

For now.

I'm sorry about all this, ma'am.

Simply we can hardly believe that your husband is alive.

We'll find out all the time.

Until then, if you need something ... - Do not ... - Please, take it.

I'll drop by about 10 Can we talk?

I do not know. - Just to talk. It can?

Yes. - After 10th

Bye.

Bye.

When you last saw me, I barely knew to drive, remember?

And you're gone.

Yes, that's right. I did.

I was chasing a guy and a couple of dragons ...

There is so much I do not want to think about it anymore.

How did you get out?

I do not know.

Could you leave us alone?

Of course, of course.

If you want to talk ...

Well?

Los Angeles, Ministry of Health - declared dead / i

No

No

Where did you ... where have you been, man?

I'm here.

I'm not asking you to decide today.

Or add another burden in your life.

The whole situation is impossible. - I just want to say that I have committed.

I will not stop, I will not leave you.

I gird you, protect you and your baby.

I'll do anything to help Daniel.

I'm still the same guy. But he did not.

It is no longer the same one who left.

Remember how you said that things were not so great. - Do not ...

Sorry, I just want to say that this obituary ...

... Correct.

Even if it is on the floor.

Jesus!

Are you okay?

It is not as it seems.

It is more like an insect.

Bright as the silver fish.

Tricia!

Trampala you are with him.

I wish you had not.

Haunts.

Daniel, I think you should go back to your room ...

Tricia and wait.

Do not ... I can not go back.

Inside the walls of the team.

Maybe he'll go.

Do more, do not. Do not ... Do more ...

Do more ...

Quiet, Daniel.

Stop. Enough said.

I assure you that you will be absent from the child's life.

Tricia ... - You always said you'd give it back.

And you're back. And I love you for it.

I see.

And so I wanted ...

I wanted to go away for the weekend.

Sleep under the stars ...

and no one wanted to know whether I would ever return.

I understand ...

I understand why it's ... just go and leave

this mess and said, "I do not care all."

I do not know ...

Ryan?

Are you ...? - No!

Tricia!

Tricia, he's gone! He's gone!

He's gone! He's gone!

It's gone ...!

There's no one inside. What happened?

Daniel, Daniel!

Daniel!

Callie?

Daniel!

I know it sounds weird, but I swear, I swear I heard it in the walls.

Daniel!

He shouted. - It's okay, right?

Daniel!

I will examine you, right?

Look me in the eye.

Everything is OK.

Were you drinking something? Something I should know?

I drank a glass of wine a few moments ago.

Right.

Later we will talk to you, okay? - Yes.

F***ing a**hole.

There is.

You've seen her eyes? - Yes, eyeballs, I know.

But this means that nafiksala. - No, you should search Park,

main roads, I do not care ... - It will cost a large, you know.

I know that you love her, but it does not help you. - I know.

I'll need her statement.

But we will have to make changes in her story ...

I know.

You want to write her ...

Statement ...?

No. No, I think I can and I do.

I was definitely ask for some things.

You'll have to ...

I do not know how to tell you. I'm sorry, I just ...

Oh, Jesus. Can be?

You'll have to sign a paper about a missing person.

Tricia, my God, I'm so sorry. - Shut up!

Hey!

I saw your eyes, you're buzzing around the apartment! Where is it?

No, f***! Listen! I saw it!

You're hallucinating! - I saw. Jesus! Do not believe me?

He can not go a day without Callienih "trip"!

It happened! I would not believe I did not see that!

Well, well, well!

What would happen if it were not so, as I say?

While you were doing and where have you been,

what would happen, Tricia?

I do not know! But the last time I heard that story about the big beetle,

while you were still on drugs, remember?

Okay, but it happened! - There will be no change there!

Father left, my mother was mad,

Callie and tries to solve their problems with a needle!

But at least I did not screw up his marriage with a guy from high school ...

missing / i

list of missing persons / i

Hi, Ruth, Tricia here. You're probably already on the plane, but ...

listen ...

Hey ...

Hey ...

I'm sorry ... - No, it is pointless.

I think I figured out what it actually does.

Right. Walter Lambert lived three houses from us,

disappeared in 1995, on his way to work.

Guess where he went. He left behind a son, who now lives there.

He is convinced that his father was kidnapped by a monster.

Walter declared dead 2002nd year.

I saw him last week. Guess where.

It could be a coincidence, but he's not the only one, not even close.

In the last 100 years, a number of people missing from the environment.

The tunnel was not there 100 years ago. - Exactly.

The highway was built in the early fifties, but before that,

and, no kidding, there was a natural formation,

they built a bridge there, and you know what?

People began to disappear.

In 1928, Charles Ashford went to fetch water from domestic wells.

Cross the bridge ... Family searches. No trace of him.

The traces left by the led to the source.

Not enough? Three students, on the cover of the LA Times,

After their failure in the system of underground caves,

the Verdugo hills, where it connects with the long tunnel into the valley.

They could not find the tunnel ...

Listen! This is important. They said that beneath the city.

Not underground, but underground. - Jesus, Callie.

No, look, 1968, David Stone ...

he went to a party, three buildings away,

began to behave strangely and wandered onto the neighbor's property.

He did not know where he was going, what he's doing, he just said that he was being chased.

Callie, when the mind knows not cope with a terrible situation ...

Do you know that in this country there are 109,000 reported missing?

Guess how many of them disappeared in the tunnel. - The mind creates the schema.

I saw horrible things, right?

Terrible things, that seemed so real.

Myths, legends, folklore. - It is easier to imagine the scariest fantasies

but to accept the truth. - Tricia, every culture in history

has such myths in which monsters abduct people.

Dragged them into a surreal underworld, make slaves of them ...

It is easier to cope with the worst nightmare, but to accept the fact

how stupid and simple this world.

Take the legends of trolls, demons, Egyptian, banshee, Wendigo.

There are records of all this! Just ...

we need to find ... Well ...

Dark matter, tangential dimension ...

If everything is made of atoms,

and atoms are mostly empty space, then how can anything be tight.

Things disappear in this environment, and always disappearing.

And these things occur in one and the same place.

I love you, Callie.

Tricia.

How is he? Where is it?

Hi ... Tric ... - Daniel!

I have to tell you something. Come on in, sit down ...

Sit ...

Ma'am. - What's going on? - I need to talk to your sister for a while.

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