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Puritan

Synopsis

An old house in London on a bitterly cold night. In the house, a crowd of people are gathered, young and old, their rapt attention fixed on one man, Simon Puritan, a medium. A man who talks with the dead. Simon picks a husband and wife in the crowd and tells the husband that their deceased daughter is in the room with them. The husband is in shock as Simon tells him things that only he and his wife could know, delivering the husband a message from his daughter - a message of hope and love from the afterlife. The husband is a changed man; the pain in his eyes has vanished.

Later, in the now empty house, Simon meets the wife who pays him for the service he has just rendered. There was no daughter's visit from beyond the grave; Simon had manipulated the wife's grief in order to ease her husband's suffering. The whole thing is a set-up and Simon is the worst of all con artists. But fate is catching up with him.

Later that night, Simon stands waiting on an eerily deserted Underground platform. Just before a train arrives, Simon spots something out of the corner of his eye. A scarred figure charging towards him. Everything goes black. And the mystery begins. He wakes up in hospital, seemingly healthy; but something has been triggered and his life will never be the same again.

In the tradition of films such as The Sixth Sense; Memento and Donnie Darko, Puritan is an intelligent supernatural thriller which twists and turns, never letting the audience know its secret until the final moments of the film.

Details

Year
2006
Type of film
Features
Running time
96 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Hadi Hajaig
Producer
Hadi Hajaig
Editor
Pierre Haberer, Hadi Hajaig
Screenwriter
Hadi Hajaig
Director of Photography
Peter Ellmore
Music
Simon Lambros
Principal cast
Nick Moran, Ralph Brown, David Soul, Georgina Rylance

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Parliament Films plc

585a Fulham Road
London SW6 5UA
UK

info@parliamentfilms.com

Sales Company

Parliament Films plc

585a Fulham Road
London SW6 5UA
UK

info@parliamentfilms.com

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