UPDATED with new synopsis.
The trailer for the upcoming Canadian horror film HELLMINGTON can be seen below, and it gives a preview of what looks to be an interesting film centered on a missing persons investigation that uncovers some horrific things. I'm sold on checking out HELLMINGTON after watching the trailer, and I'm glad I did because the official synopsis that was available earlier wasn't appealing to me at all. With talk of documentary filmmakers investigating and analyzing footage from when a blogger went missing at an asylum-turned-haunt, it sounded like HELLMINGTON was going to be another found footage movie about people stumbling around in the dark.
Thankfully the trailer assures us the movie isn't anything like that, and it's because the earlier synopsis was outdated. Here's the newer, more appropriate one:
In 1999, outside the sleepy town of Hellmington, troubled high school senior Katie Owens mysteriously vanished. Nine years later, Detective Samantha Woodhouse, a former classmate of Katie’s, returns to Hellmington for the first time since graduation to deal with the unexpected death of her father.
His passing just another tragedy in an already devastating year for Sam: her own daughter was murdered, resulting in a downward spiral of anguish and guilt that has slowly destroyed her marriage and career. Sam soon discovers that her father’s demise is one in a series of suspicious deaths over the last several years, and it appears that the grisly fatalities are becoming more frequent. Even more alarming, every victim circles back to the troubled Katie Owens.
Battling hallucinations, insomnia and her own personal demons, Sam struggles to uncover the disturbing truth of what really happened to Katie Owens; a mystery that will lead her to a secretive, centuries-old cult of revenge.
Written and directed by Justin Hewitt-Drakulic and Alex Lee William, the film stars genre icon Michael Ironside and Nicola Correia-Damude.
Uncork'd Entertainment will be giving HELLMINGTON a Digital and DVD release on September 10th, and the movie is going on my "to watch" list.
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