Cinema of the Damned
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
›2009 · Thriller, Mystery, Crime · 106m · Andrew Garfield, Warren Clarke, Sean Bean
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
The Tunnel
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Bel Deliá, Luke Arnold, Andy Rodoreda
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
The Shrine
›2010 · Horror · 85m · Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern
A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
Re-Cut
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ross Kohn, Meredith Phillips, Austin Basis
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.
Cold Ground
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 86m · Doug Rand, Philip Schurer, Gala Besson
1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a first-aider, a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, Melissa and David will go looking for the missing team deep into the mountains.
