Citadel Page #2

Synopsis: Tommy Cowley is a young father inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since his wife was brutally attacked by a gang of a twisted feral children. Trapped in the dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown, he finds himself terrorised by the same gang, who now seem intent on taking his baby daughter. Torn between the help of an understanding nurse and a vigilante priest, Tommy sets out to learn the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children. He also discovers that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place that he fears the most - the abandoned tower block known as the Citadel.
Director(s): Ciarán Foy
Production: Cinedigm Entertainment
  11 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
R
Year:
2012
84 min
$10,080
Website
261 Views


Just stop the f***ing

car, please!

This is where the scums are coming from.

North east tower block.

I need to go back now.

Get out.

What?

- Get out!

- No f***ing way of me to get out.

Get out!

Act like a man!

It's a building, for Christ sake!

Look at it!

I see...

You wanna know why they're after you?

Because you fear them.

You fear them.

They see it.

They can see fear.

Sense it. Smell it.

Otherwise, they mostly blind

of anything else.

- What are you talking about?

- Fear!

that's what they born into attracts them.

To the victims, they thrive on it

and they draw you and your fear..

..they're attracted to,

and consequently Elsa.

Sh*t! Jesus Christ!

Some of them're watching us.

Oh they see you, Tommy.

They see you very

f***ing clearly.

- Please, quick, the door!

- There's more others than before.

This could end before

it's too late.

Before they f*** spread somewhere else.

- Please, quick, the door!

- You're going to help me, Tommy.

- Open the door!

- Will you help me?

How can I help you?

If we open the gas flank on the floors,

blow them in riser,

we can torch that f***ing place.

So the kids there..

the kids...

Kids?

I don't see any kids!

Do they look like kids to you?

Get a hold to yourself!

- Jesus!

- Useless f*** up!

Go on, get out.

- You want to torch the building?

- Condemned.

- Infected.

- I used to live there.

We wait for the last vestige

of humanity to leave.

Now it's the time.

Let me ask you something.

What would you have done,

if the lift door had opened that day?

What would you have done,

to protect your wife?

You gotta f***ing kill them!

Let's candle these f*** ass!

Tommy?

You know what?

She's right about you.

You are insane.

I suggest you take a look at the mirror, pal.

I have a condition.

You certainly f***in do.

Help yourself

Hey, Marie...

Thanks for letting me stay.

Marie, you were right.

You were right

about the priest.

He must think I'm an idiot.

I just got upset the thought someone

took advantage of you. That's all.

And yeah,... you are an idiot.

To be honest, I thought you'd

run away, leaving me with the baby.

So, what 'happened?

Did he know who these kids were?

Actually Ted convince me that

they're not even human.

What?

That's outrageous!

Honestly,

and so easy to demonize these kids

"they're not even human".

If people have that man,

have their way,

they would lock 'em up in the building

and burn it to the ground.

I worked with a lot of socially deprived kids,

and most of them is just unloved

one of waste from broken homes.

What they need is all symphaty.

Legs first.

Let me help you.

Wait..

That's good.

Okay.

Here, first the legs...

Here we are.

- I can't do this.

- You can't do what?

She cries everytime I pick her up.

Well, baby can sense fear.

Tommy...

Do you ever try talking to Elsa?

She's a whole special person all by herself.

Not just the result of what happened to Joanne.

- Suede...

- What is?

Joanne used to make me dance

to this song.

I don't like dancing,

It made her smile.

You made her smile.

Stand up!

Marie... I don't know...

Stand up!

Try closing your eyes.

It's ok..

It's ok..

"Tommy, help yourself to the kitchen.

Will be back in time to help you to the bus. "

Elsa.

Are you okay?

You know, you're looking a lot better.

I still feel lost, though..

How can you feel lost?

Didn't you deliver the post around

here?

I worked in a post office.

Besides, it's all the same to me, every city street.

What?

Well, I'm afraid to tell you that

I actually requested more time here.

You're crazier than the priest.

Yes she, she question me.

- Is the bus almost there?

- They're there.

No way.

I'm not going down that f***ing line.

The bus stop is just three vent,

like 30 seconds.

Look, we'll have to go all the way around,

we'll miss the bus.

I go this way to work every single day.

It's fine.

Come on...

Here we are.

- Sh*t!

- Tommy.

For f*** sake!

- We should go back the other way.

- You can practically see the bus!

- It's too f*** dangerous!

- That's not fair.

Okay, look, I'm gonna show you

there's nothing to be afraid of, ok?

Marie...

Marie, please..

F***!

F***!

Must... I must...

must help me!

Some kids...

Help me!

Please help me.

Please, no, no!

Jesus' Christ

For the love of God,

what...

No!

No, no! No!

Elsa! No!

Elsa!

Hello?

Someone there?

Father!

Father!

They've got her!

They've got her!

They've got her!

They've got her!

- I know... I know.

- They killed Elsa.

Tommy, she's not dead.

That's what the bastards do.

They take children.

What? Jesus!

We should go...

- Don't go anywhere

- We need to get to the towers!

We need to get there tonight

please!

- Tommy, would you listen to me...

- No, I need to get there..

- I need to get there tonight!

- We can't!

Get off me!

Get off me!

What do you think you're doing?

- I'll go on my own.

- We can't go tonight!

There's a blackout!

They'll scum you out of the tower on the prowl.

- We'll go tomorrow night.

- I don't care, I'm going tonight!

I know where she is.

If I help you,

Will you help me

start the fire?

I need you to follow my lead to trust me.

No one knew we will get through this.

Sermon hiddden.

- How do we do that?

- They can see fear.

Don't let they do it.

Partly, sense all,

they smell it other...

the secrete, hormone,

cortisol...

But Danny...

Danny doesn't.

They don't see him.

You stay close to Danny,

No one see you.

I don't understand.

Don't be afraid, Tommy.

Have faith.

How come he has the hands?

I found him in the tower.

It was becoming one of them.

Danny could've been with them

for a very long.

He's still healthy.

He understood,

when I spoke to him.

The others... Tower

done something to them.

Poisoned them.

I never know who they was,

where they came from.

He doesn't remember none of it.

Will Elsa become one?

No, if we find her.

Home made plastic explosives.

I saw their faces.

What are they?

Demons.

Demons?

F*** sake.

Your believe'd just a bit error

right now, wouldn't you?

There was a girl...

junkie.

Dolores.

She was a beautiful girl.

Tragic.

So.. in '72, she was found

dead at the bell of that Tower.

She died of unidentified infection.

But what people didn't know

was that before Dolores died,

she gave birth on the..

Twins.

Junkies squatter used to talk

of dumb children.

Brother and sister.

Abe and Matt.

They are into bred, raise the spawn,

they will make the new heir.

So, they are children?

Don't think of them as humans..

..or it can be saved.

I tried.

I got this.

Like cancer.

Cutting the hands must the

best small thing you can do.

F***! F***!

Danny?

Can not see you, Tommy.

Can not see you.

They can't see you.

They can't see you.

How did you do that?

I told you.

He can hide your fear from them.

Can you see fear like they do?

What does fear look like?

A red is.

How do I look?

Scarlet.

Yeah.

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