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Requiem

Requiem

Directors: - Mitchell Morgan & Jon Kirby
Producers: - Crispin Manson & Jon Kirby
Cast: - Jason Connery, Jodie McMullen, Crispin Manson, Dan Taylor

Genre: -
Horror


Martin Hunter is a successful property developer. He is a workaholic and has a reputation as a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing and let no-one get in his way when putting a deal together.

His latest project is in an enormous former mental asylum called Harleston House which used to house 3000 “patients”. Martin is planning to develop the property into a business and conference centre with gyms, swimming pools and a handful of restaurants etc. Having given a highly polished performance in the form of a presentation to a selection of heavy hitting investors, Martin is all smiles and can “smell the money”. The investors are clearly impressed and it leaves one final hurdle of a simple summary from the surveyors in the morning, which is expected to go well and have the investors reaching for their chequebooks.

As Martin is preparing to leave Harleston House for the night he is very surprised to see his wife Nancy arrive. They obviously have a troubled marriage brought about by his self-centeredness and devotion to work and nothing else. She has brought divorce papers with her and reluctantly he is forced to sign. They try to order a taxi but strangely there is no signal on either mobile. When they get to the front door this too, is mysteriously locked. Putting this inconvenience down to the security guard the pair are forced to “team up” and try and find another way out.

What follows is a strange sequence of events that leads to the pair getting separated and Martin hearing and seeing strange things. They are apparently not alone in Harleston House. Martin, completely lost by this stage, keeps seeing a young boy who appears to be leading him through the maze of corridors of Harleston. But is he being led in or out? Martin then has a confrontation with his dead father, Jeremy. It transpires that Jeremy found out his wife was having an affair because he too was a workaholic who ignored her but this ended up with Jeremy murdering his wife. An event that was witnessed by their seven-year-old son Martin.

The building itself seems to be taking over Martin's mind. Is he really seeing these things? He seems to have become delusional and actually begins chasing Nancy and trying to kill her (as Jeremy did years before)….

Martin is forced to confront his worst nightmares. Thoughts he had pushed to the back of his mind since the terrible events he had to witness as a seven year old. Martin and Nancy find themselves (in between getting separated and fighting) having to work together and after a frosty start they begin to remember perhaps why they got married in the first place.

In the morning the investors all arrive to find Martin and Nancy coming out of Harleston House. But Martin has realised that he has been getting his priorities all wrong and leaves his assistant to handle the investors so he can take some off with his wife.

The night inside Harleston buried his demons and saved his marriage.

Runtime:- 80 minutes

 

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