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THE BLACKENING
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Development - ENGLISH - Thriller, Horror - 90 minutes

Log Line

Some secrets are so dangerous, we keep them from ourselves.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2019 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2021

Director(s) : Paul HYETT
Writer(s) : Paul HYETT, Conal PALMER

Synopsis

Lindsay, an Army Intelligence officer recently returned from Iraq, is living in a nightmare. Struggling to settle back into her civilian life as wife and mother after harrowing combat experiences, she is suffering from increasingly violent, bizarre and disturbing hallucinations.

But this is may be more than PTSD. Her psychotic episodes seem to be connected to her work in the army's covert and controversial Black Site interrogation centres.

Lindsay seeks help from a therapist and between them they start to unravel what really happened. Why is there a month she can’t remember? What do her terrifying dreams of a ghostly child leading her to death really mean? As the therapist and Lindsay unravel the buried secrets of her mind, the deeper they go, the darker it gets. Lindsay feels she’s been altered by the army, was forced to do things against her will, at a place she recognises but can’t remember ever being there.

But the truth is a lot more sinister then she could ever comprehend. As clues surface as to the exact nature of her conditioning in the psychological warfare unit Lindsay's sanity unravels and she descends into a world of deceit, schizophrenia and murder leading to a shocking and unexpected ending.

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM


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