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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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