Luciferous Page #2

Synopsis: In a high-rise apartment young parents Alex and Mahsa live with their seven-year-old daughter Mina. Everything about the family is completely normal, uncomfortably real: Their home, their jobs, her school, the way they hold and love each other. The line between fact and fiction is blurred because THEY ARE A REAL family. Until completely normal turns into what they fear the most. Alex's injury opens the door to a malevolent force that attacks and dismantles the family one person at a time: A violent aggressor determined to prove that possession is real, unconscionably disturbing and very different from how it's depicted in the movies.
Director(s): Mahsa Ghorbankarimi (co-director), Alexander Gorelick (co-director)
  5 wins.
 
IMDB:
4.0
UNRATED
Year:
2015
90 min
28 Views


to the orphanage by somebody?

- Oh, Mina.

Always going to have

your mommy and daddy.

Always, always, mommy and

daddy are going to be with you.

- Of course baby, I'm

feeling a lot better now.

You've stayed home long enough.

- So baby please,

just a lot of rest.

No unnecessary walking around.

Yes?

- Of course.

- I love you so much.

- Hi baby.

Alex, are you okay?

You were supposed

to be resting today.

- Three, two, one, action.

Hi, this is my daddy,

and this is me,

and we're playing dress up,

and my daddy is filming it.

My daddy had a bad accident,

so I decided to dress him up

but he didn't look that pretty

when he had the accident.

So I decided to

make him handsome.

Daddy, go look at

yourself in the mirror.

- Okay.

- You're not even supposed

to be walking right now.

You totally forgot everything

that the doctor say,

you know the consequences if

you don't recover properly.

- Baby, I'm not suggesting.

- Don't baby me,

this is not a joke.

- I'm not joking,

I need to go back to work.

We have bills to pay and

there's no way you can pay

all of them up in time.

- You know that this

is just gonna put off your

recovery, not speed it up.

But it doesn't matter, as

soon as I leave the apartment

you're gonna do whatever

you want to anyways.

- What is that supposed to mean?

- Guys, don't fight anymore,

it's a really good part now.

Guys, wake up, you

guys are on camera.

- Mina, it's Saturday,

let's just sleep.

- You guys it's late,

it's already 7:
00.

Get up, get up you guys, get up.

- Mina, again with the camera.

Not really sure how a video

blog is gonna help with my

head injury, even the doctors

say that it's just a pile of

project at the hospital.

I guess no real

results guaranteed.

Like as far as giving a brief

history as to what happened,

to tell you the truth, I

really don't remember much.

My health just sort of is

improving, some days are better,

some days are worse, I don't

really feel like myself

to tell you the truth.

- Oh my god, Mina, I'm here.

- Mommy.

- I'm here, I'm here.

Mommy's here, it's

okay, it's okay.

- Just don't talk to

anybody about my health.

Let's just be done with this.

Move it!

- Slow down, baby,

please, just slow down.

- I really sorry,

so sorry, baby.

I really don't know

what came over.

I'm sorry, I'm so

sorry, I got so upset.

- It's okay, baby, it's okay.

It's okay.

- No, this is just bull sh*t.

I mean f***, can life

just become normal again?

F***!

It's not okay, that's

the whole point.

This is not okay, what the f***!

- It's all gonna be okay baby,

we're gonna get through this.

- Now this is the

way I'm treating you?

- Wow she really listens.

Wow full trained.

- Yeah, I trained

her really well.

- I didn't bring them down.

- You sure?

- What the f*** kind

of question is that?

I'm not gonna remember

bringing down f***ing 35

wine glasses, am I crazy?

What the hell stinks in here?

Your stupid rabbit stink

up the place again?

- Mommy.

- I don't know, no matter what

I do, I can't sleep at night.

No matter what I do I keep

falling asleep during the day,

I get up, I don't know how

long I've slept, go off like

a f***ing shotgun, get

angry for no reason.

It's absolutely

not at all like me.

The pills are not working.

Now I'm hearing

sounds in the condo?

I don't know, maybe

they're in my head.

- Mina ma me, wake up,

it's time to go to school.

- Why mommy?

- Good morning Mina, I

will help you get dressed.

Go brush your teeth.

- Okay.

Mommy, come and skip with me.

Come on, let's go,

go skip together.

- Alex, I know

the rabbit has stunk.

He could have been

taken to the pet shop,

did he have to die?

- What are you talking about?

Is fluffy dead?

- In the closet.

- What the f***, baby,

what are you talking about?

What the f*** is this?

What the f*** happened here?

F*** it, I'm calling the police.

- Alex hold on, let's

talk about this.

- What the f*** is

there to talk about?

We had a f***ing break in.

What the hell.

- How does that make

sense, somebody broke in?

We been home all night.

- Baby what are

you talking about?

God that's completely

unacceptable.

- Sir, at this

point, there's nothing more

that we can do.

- It's just completely

unacceptable.

How much more evidence

do you guys need

about the break in?

- Sir, sir, you

need to calm down.

- Oh my god, you

know what officer?

Thank you, thank you officer.

I'm perfectly calm

considering the situation.

- Baby.

- Yeah, now, so in

your mind, I did this,

no other possibilities, right?

Husbands a lunatic.

- Alex, you just had a

big trauma on the head.

The doctors already told us.

You might have times that you

do things you can't remember.

Baby, that doesn't

make you a lunatic.

But we have to go to

the doctor anyways,

they have to do something,

because we can't have

incidents like this anymore.

I love you so much, baby.

We're gonna go

through this together.

- He loved me, he

would never escape.

You guys just sent

him away on purpose.

- Minishka, you know

that's not true.

We would never do such a thing.

- But daddy already

said he stinks.

- Mommy, mommy.

Mommy!

- What is it Minishka?

What is it mama, did you

have a nightmare, again?

- Uh uh, daddy woke me up.

- Daddy is asleep.

- Daddy!

- Daddy is sleeping

Mina, go back to bed.

- No, he was here,

he woke me up.

- Daddy was asleep.

You just go back to bed.

- I want to see daddy.

- See Minishka, daddy is asleep.

- Is Mina okay?

- Alex, where were you?

- I was in the wash room,

what are you guys doing up?

- She wanted to see you.

- To see me?

So after my daughter's

pet rabbit was killed,

which I was blamed for, I

went to the doctor's office.

And what did they do?

They prescribed new

medication, again.

Now they have this new

theory about my condition.

They think that the injury

that I suffered might

have been self inflicted, and

now, since I'm doing these

video blogs, they're

recommending that I use

different filters, so

here I am in x-ray mode,

because they think that if

I play the videos back to

myself it might help me

to regain my memory about

the incident.

They say that maybe it'll seem

like I'm hearing information

told back to me,

by someone else.

- Oh, what is this smell?

Mina, you're sleeping

on the floor mama.

Come on Minishka,

something's stinking.

Have to get up, I

don't know mama.

- Why do you keep

scrubbing so hard?

Do you think fluffy came?

I smell like him, right?

I think that fluffy came back.

- Look at all this sh*t.

- I don't know, the gallery

owner said they have never

seen such a thing happen.

40 prints coming down

at the same time.

- I know, that's so strange.

So how long does it take

you to put the show back on?

- Well, they closed down the

gallery right now for insurance

and renovation after all

that disaster that happened.

They don't even know

how long it's gonna take

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