In the Dark Half
2011, 120 minutes
a psychological horror set in Hartcliffe
It's Autumn and Marie is fifteen. She lives on the edge of the city with her mum Kathy. Filthy lives next door. He is a single father with a six year old son called Sean. He takes his boy out hunting with him for rabbits on the hill behind their houses. They are very close and spend all their time together. Marie also likes the hill. She goes running on it every day. In a secluded spot near the top she has a secret den. It is her refuge from a world she is finding increasingly difficult to cope with. She appears to be losing her only friend and she doesn’t seem to be able to communicate with her mother. One night Marie babysits for Filthy. Whilst in her care, Sean mysteriously dies. Nobody knows why and Filthy is devastated. Marie becomes convinced the death has something to do with the hill. She has been seeing strange things in the landscape. It is also Samhain, the Pagan festival that marks the beginning of the dark half of the year. A time when the line between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. As Filthy's grief threatens to overwhelm him Marie becomes aware that she is being haunted by a frightening presence. It follows her from the hill into the city and it won't leave her alone. It wants something from her. What is this presence? Is it the spirit of Sean? Or something much more terrifying.
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