The Canal

(2014)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 469 votes

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 2014

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Ivan Kavanagh

Cast: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ханна Хукстра, Стив Орам, Kelly Byrne, Serena Brabazon, Anthony Murphy, Calum Heath, Paddy Curran, Maura Foley

Plot

A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.

Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has had a rough time lately, suspecting that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) is 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. David begins to believe that he has a spectral presence in his house; becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, he ends up following Alice to a nearby canal--and discovering that she is indeed having an affair with Alex. When she goes missing shortly afterward, 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 responsible instead.