17 April 2014

The Canal



Ivan Kavanagh : 2014

Cinema archivist David Williams lives with his wife, Alice, and their 5-year-old son, Billy. All seems well until David begins to suspect that Alice is cheating on him. His anxiety is then compounded by a bizarre coincidence at work: cataloguing a film-reel from 1902, he learns that his home was the site of a brutal series of murders by a man named William Jackson, who slew his wife for being unfaithful and drowned both of their children in the nearby canal. This sinister history then ripples into the present and casts a shadow over life as he knows it, and as David's suspicions grow, a terrifying shadowy figure of a man, who resembles Jackson, starts to appear to him. In his drive to unveil the shadows hidden in the walls, David begins to descend into insanity, threatening the lives of everyone around him. Ivan Kavanagh's sixth feature, an Irish ghost story, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2014.

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