Luciferous Page #4

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
27 Views


Mommy, mommy!

Mommy, mommy!

- Mina, Mina, Mina!

- Mommy, mommy!

- Oh my god, Mina!

What's going on?

- I was on the staircase,

all of the doors were locked.

You are my sunshine

My only sunshine

You make me happy

When skies are Grey

You'll never know dear

How much I love you

Please don't take

my sunshine away

- Thank you so much doctor.

- Nice to meet you, Alex.

- Baby, I'm gonna go home.

- Don't worry so much,

I see this a lot.

- You stay here with mommy.

- This prescription

is for six bottles,

one bottle per week.

Just make sure he takes

the pills in the order

as directed on the bottles.

If he takes the whole

regimen, it will help.

- Thank you so much doctor.

- Then just try to provide a

comforting environment for him.

- Mina, stop filming.

- Hi baby.

What, she didn't get on the bus?

No, no, just stay,

baby just stay there.

I'll be right there,

just stay down there.

- I didn't know that, mommy.

I didn't think about it,

but thank you for coming

and getting me.

Are you mad at me?

- No, Mina, I'm not mad at you.

Just when, baby slow down.

Slow down baby.

I just wanna make

sure you're safe.

You can't get, you have

to get on that bus.

And why do you get into fight

with these kids these days?

- I don't know, mommy, but

the principal said that you

have to come to school

and talk to him on Friday.

- Really, when did he say that?

- Would you two just shut up!

- May I please have a cup of tea

and a blueberry cookie please?

Sure.

Sure you can, because

you're my friend.

- What the hell is

that supposed to mean?

Are you suggesting we don't go?

- Alex, not use explaining

our problems to the principal.

What are we going to tell her?

That we killed her pet rabbit

and put it in a closet?

Or we took her out

in minus 20 degrees

to the park to freeze?

- Oh ok, we or me?

- It's not about

finger pointing, Alex.

I know sh*t is going on and

we are trying to fix it,

but it's not so easy to

explain it to other people.

What are we supposed to

tell to the principal?

- Baby, we need to

keep some normalcy,

some normalcy in our lives.

- I'm not saying to stop

a normal life, just things

that are gonna cause

problems that we can't fix,

like her going back to school.

- Oh my god.

F***!

- May I please have

a cup of tea, too?

Not you, you are

a very bad doll!

- That is the most ridiculous

thing I've ever heard.

- Shhh, oh my god, shhh.

- Baby, every kid has

problems at school.

We can't just keep her at home.

- Alex, keep your voice down.

- Oh my god.

- It's not forever, but

right now school is not safe.

- Oh, school is not safe.

- Today, she didn't

get into the bus.

Tomorrow she's gonna

get into a fight.

The following, she's going

to run into the street,

get hit by car.

- Okay, so schools not safe?

This apartments not safe.

- Shhh.

- Hey man.

- Hi John, come on in.

- Is this a bad time?

- No, no, no, no, no.

- No of course not

buddy, it's a perfect time.

Yeah, couldn't be better.

So they tell me that all

of my symptoms are because

of the pills I'm taking.

Meanwhile, they prescribe

new pills for me to take.

This time for crazy people.

Pills for crazy people, so

pills that make you crazy, and

pills because you're crazy,

pills that make you crazy,

because you're crazy.

- Mina, Mina, Mina.

- Mommy I'm here, I'm here.

- Masa, are you okay baby?

- Stay somewhere I can see you.

- Baby, baby, Mina's asleep.

Masa.

- Yeah, I know.

You should be, too, go to bed.

Baby, it's not that

easy, and I don't think

it's a great time right now.

- Baby, I know money is

tight right now, it's just a

short trip, just for a few days.

We all need the rest.

We all just get away

and live together,

just have some time off.

- Time to go.

- Coming.

- Come on kiddie.

- Thank you dad.

- That was fun, just

nice to be back home.

- The trip was good,

looks like the pills

are finally working.

I feel a lot better,

we all do actually.

If this apartment could

just leave us alone.

What are you doing here?

What are people doing here?

- Hi baby.

Alex?

Alex, baby?

Alex, oh my god,

you're sleeping?

Alex, Alex, Alex, wake up baby.

Alex, are you okay?

Oh my god, are you breathing?

- They were here.

They were here.

- What, baby, you got

into fight with somebody?

- They were here in the house.

- It's today's footage

that is all like this.

The live feed was

fine, cameras fine.

Today's is all almost like this.

- Yeah, that's bullshit.

- Baby, are you taking

your medication?

Baby where have you been?

I got really worried.

- It hurts.

- Mina has this

weird fever, again.

Did you bring the groceries up?

- Groceries?

- You didn't go shopping?

- Woah.

What the, ugh.

Just leave us alone!

Hell, leave us alone!

- Alex.

- If I tell you that I

didn't do any of this,

you're not gonna

believe me anyway.

Just say that I moved

the furniture around.

- Alex.

- Don't bother with the

surveillance camera, either.

It's f***ed.

Is that supposed to happen

at f***ing 4 P.M. in the

middle of the day?

No, not under any

normal circumstance.

- Baby, are you hungry?

- I'm in the middle of a

f***ing recording is what I am.

Can I just have some

f***ing privacy?

- Okay.

- You know what?

I should really say this for

the record, because I seem to

be the only one here that

sees this f***ing shitty

situation for what it is.

There is an entity in

our f***ing apartment,

who's messing with all of

us, and who's not gonna stop

until our whole f***ing

family is destroyed.

Taking over all of

our f***ing lives.

But me, oh, but I'm gonna

keep taking your pills.

Yeah the pills are the answer.

F***ing pills are

the answer, right?

Keep taking the crazy pills.

- Mommy, mommy.

Why did you leave, why

did you sleep here?

- Are you okay?

- No, I'm really cold.

- Okay, come on, we'll go.

It's okay, mommy, it's okay.

You go back to bed, I'll

be there in a second.

They keep telling to

keep the fever in check.

How long am I supposed

to do that for?

She's so sick.

My whole body is in pain, what

the hell is wrong with me?

- Oh my god, baby, I know

you don't believe me.

No baby, I'm telling

you, okay, it's Peter.

Baby, Masa, it's Peter,

I saw my blog last night,

I can't even recognize myself.

Okay, he's gonna make

me hurt you and Mina.

- Oh my god, Alex, we talked

about this nonsense enough.

You know these are

hallucinations, and you know

your pills are causing them.

- Hallucinations?

- We'll maybe it's not just

your pills, I know there's

something definitely

wrong with us.

I woke up in the middle

of the night on the couch.

I have no idea how I got there.

We have to ourselves a

reality check to really figure

out what the hell is wrong.

- A reality check?

Check for what, baby?

So they can prescribe

the same f***ing pills

I've been taking?

- No, to see exactly medically

what's wrong with us.

- Medically.

Mina, Mina, Mina, Mina!

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