The Canal Page #4

Synopsis: Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has been having a rough time lately, as he suspects that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) has been cheating on him with Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives him a reel of to-be-archived footage that shows that his house was the setting for a brutal murder in 1902. Becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, David begins to believe that a spectral presence is in his house and ends up following his wife to a nearby canal, where he discovers that she is indeed having an affair with Alex. When Alice goes missing shortly afterwards, David contacts the police- only to become the prime suspect in her disappearance. As the police grow more convinced that David has murdered his wife, he struggles to find proof of his growing suspicion that something otherworldly was instead responsible.
Director(s): Ivan Kavanagh
Production: The Orchard
  3 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
92 min
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I'll help you.

Clare they sacrificed children

in this room...

don't you know?

David what are you talking about?

Baby's blood is the most powerful, you see?

They would carry the bodies from here through

the sewer and dump them in the canal.

In the canal!

They... they thought of everything...

David, stop it, stop it!

Stop it... look at me!

Did you kill Alice?

just say you didn't do it...

look me in the eye

Say you didn't do it.

Say you didn't do it, please!

Just tell me!

Whatever you say, I'll believe you.

Whatever you say, anything you say,

I'll believe you.

I'll believe you...

I'll believe you...

Just tell me...

just tell me...

just tell me...

Just watch this.

Then you'll understand.

Yeah, we'll... we'll watch this.

Ok there she is... do you see her?

She's moving...

you see?

David...

there's nothing there.

Just wait... there's more.

Ok... there... there!

Do you see, there, look!

What is that there?

She's moving toward us, do you see her?

What is it?

Yes... I see som...

You see it?

I see something

I told you I'm telling the truth..

What is it?

I'm not going insane!

Do you understand me...

look there!

What is it?

David...

David, turn it off!

Turn it off, what is it?

What is it?

David please! No!

Nooo!

Stop!

Arrrrghhhh!

What's up then?

It wasn't me.

We saw him go into the house with a woman,

then we heard her screaming.

What have you done, David?

What have you done?

I didn't do it!

Open the door, David!

Mr Williams...

David! Open the door!

Open the f***ing door, David.

Upstairs!

David!

Come back!

Stop!

David!

Stop it... stop it...

Look at me..

look! Right, there she is.

There! She's moving.

David..

there's nothing there..

There.. she's moving towards us...

DO YOU SEE HER?

Look!

I want you to see her.

You can see her!

There's nothing there!

Go that way!

The master wants her.

Give her to him.

I couldn't help it..

You're a f***ing whore!

David, I love you!

You're a f***ing whore!

That's what you are!

I didn't mean for this to happen.

I need to leave,

I need to take Billy with me..

.. No no, David, I'm sorry...

No no...

F***ing b*tch!

David...

No, David!

Da...

David!

David!

Euurgh!

DAVID!

Hellp!

David!

Aghh!

Alice...

Alice...

David...

Aggghhhh!

Arrrgghhh!

Arrrggghhhh!

Arrrgghhh!

You alright?

When's the first viewing, then?

Next Monday.

Will that give you enough time?

Oh yes yes,

the house will be cleared by next Friday.

I don't want time wasters.

I only want serious people

looking at this house.

Of course. I feel the same.

Nana,

can I go inside and get my dinosaur book?

Yes, yes - don't be long, we're going now.

I have a list of appointments

already lined up for next week.

Billy...

Billy, over here!

It's Daddy...

I'm here with your mother.

Do you miss us?

Do you want to stay here with us?

Do you want to stay here with us forever?

I love you Billy.

I love you.

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Ivan Kavanagh

Ivan Kavanagh is an Irish filmmaker who has written, directed and edited five features and ten short films. His second feature film "The Solution" toured the festival circuit worldwide and won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2007 in London. The Durban International Film Festival in South Africa called it “a gritty masterpiece”. Ivan's third feature Tin Can Man won Boundary Breaking Best Feature at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007 and Best Actor for Patrick O'Donnell. It also won Best Foreign Film, Best Foreign Actor for Michael Parle and Best Foreign Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 and Best Cinematography at the Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008. His 2009 feature film The Fading Light produced by Park Films and financed by the Irish Film Board, recently won Best Irish Film and Best Male Actor for Patrick O'Donnell at the Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2010. Amongst many other festivals, it also played in the World Cinema section of the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival 2010, South Korea and at the Titanic Film Festival 2011, Hungary. more…

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