The Canal
Came out; 2014
Time; 92 Minutes
Watched on; Netflix
Rating; Un-Sure
IMDB Rating; 5.9
Rotten Tomatoes Score; 81%
Average Rating 6/10, Reviews Counted 16. Fresh Score 13, Rotten Score 3. 53%
Liked it
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Synopsis; Film
archivist David (Rupert Evans) has been having a rough time lately, as he
suspects that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) has been cheating on him with
Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when
David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives him a reel of
to-be-archived footage that shows that his house was the setting for a brutal
murder in 1902. Becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, David
begins to believe that a spectral presence is in his house and ends up
following his wife to a nearby canal, where he discovers that she is indeed
having an affair with Alex. When Alice goes missing shortly afterwards, David
contacts the police- only to become the prime suspect in her disappearance. As
the police grow more convinced that David has murdered his wife, he struggles
to find proof of his growing suspicion that something otherworldly was instead
responsible.
Staring;
Rupert Evans as David
Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Claire
Hannah Hoekstra as Alice
Kelly Byrne as Sophie
Calum Heath as Billy
Thoughts;
The movie start out pretty slow, married couple, pregnant
wife, buying a house. Then it goes forward to a few years later and you come to
find out that the house they live in was site to a murder. David finds this out
while at his job, where he is a film archivist.
A little later, you find out that his wife is cheating on him
with someone she works with. You do find this out in a very graphic sex scene.
As I watch these movies with my daughter, I would have liked a little heads up
on this one. From this point on, the movie gets better. Are there ghosts, is
the house haunted, is David seeing things after his wife’s death? You do find
these answers at the end of the movie when you learn that David was the killer
but the true end of the movie comes with the child, Billy, throws himself out
of a moving car so he can be with his parents on “the other side”
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