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That Demon Within2014

Name: That Demon Within
Genre: Psychological
Released: 2014-04-17
Rating: 5.9

Directed by Dante Lam Chiu-yin

5.9

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IMDb 5.9Rotten Tomatoes 47%Metacritic 51TMDB 5.6

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Year

2014

Runtime

112 min

Box Office

Domestic

$172,343

🏆 1 win & 12 nominations total

The premise

By a strange twist of fate, dutiful Hong Kong policeman Dan saves the life of the leader of a violent gang of armed robbers. When they commit another crime, Dan is determined to put an end to their activities. He works with the leader, whom the gang had betrayed, to engineer a plan to wreak havoc within the gang and let the gangsters kill one another. But it becomes increasingly obvious to Dan and to his colleagues that Dan is suffering from a severe mental disorder, and Dan finds that instead of upholding the law as a righteous police officer, he has now become a fugitive wanted for murder.

Horror Vault's take

A by-the-book Hong Kong cop finds himself bound to a dangerous criminal after an act of misplaced mercy sets off a chain of devastating events. As he fixates on bringing down a ruthless gang of armed robbers, the line between justice and madness begins to dissolve around him. What starts as a procedural manhunt curdles into something far more personal and disturbing, as those closest to Dan start to question whether the real threat is the criminals — or the detective himself. That Demon Within is a brooding, psychologically charged descent into one man's unraveling identity.

Content: Violence, Depictions Of Mental Illness, Disturbing Imagery