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A Haunting in Cawdor

2015 ·1h 40m · ★ 4.4 (21)

In this tense tale of psychological terror, Vivian Miller (Young) is a young twenties woman who’s serving out her jail sentence at a work release program in the Midwest. Her 90 days of probation takes her to The Cawdor Theater, a dilapidated summer stock theater run by Lawrence O’Neil (Elwes). Lawrence, a failed Broadway director, is now reduced to staging amateur productions with young parolees and raging over the mistakes from his past. Vivian’s arrival in Cawdor starts a terrifying series of events that brings Lawrence’s secret past to the present. After Vivian views an old taped stage production of Macbeth, a force of evil is unleashed which soon turns its sights on her. With the help of Roddy (Welch), a local outcast, Vivian sets about trying to discover who the supernatural killer on the tape is before she becomes the next victim.

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Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
0
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
50
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
100
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
60
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
0
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
33
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
50
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
43
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
66
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Content Warnings

Dehumanization
Phobia triggers

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TMDB Keywords

hallucinationmichiganreformatoryteenager

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