The Canal (2014)
In Dublin, film archivist David (Charmed’s Rupert Evans) deals with the one-two punch of finding out his wife is cheating on him… swiftly followed by her mysterious death. Could it be tied to the fact that their family home—glimpsed in eerie vintage footage unearthed by David’s co-worker—was the the epicenter of a series of killings 100 years prior? (Ben Wheatley fans will note that Steve Oram, star and co-writer of Sightseers, plays a detective who zeroes in on David as a person of interest.) Writer-director Ivan Kavanagh’s film is a blend of murder mystery, ghost story, and study of a man who’s slowly but surely unraveling, all lurching forward under a cloud of doom.
