Projects matching: Ian David Diaz

Synopsis

A hard-boiled crime thriller that takes place over the course of 24 hours or one day. Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the Organized Crime Division (OCD) posing as a taxi driver, while investigating London's south-side mob. When she finds her young daughter Lynn brutally murdered she fears her cover has been blown wide open, so she turns renegade and begins a brutal campaign of vengeance against the mob she believes killed her daughter.
 
As she trawls the seedy depths of London's underworld hunting down her daughter's killers, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong begin to blur as do her notions of justice and revenge. It falls to the world-weary OCD agent Darius Cruise and his newly-assigned, hot-tempered partner Abby Barrett to track down Rebecca and bring her in before all hell breaks loose. As implied by the title, the events take place over a 24-hour period, with each of the main characters having their own problems to over come as the day unfolds.

Synopsis

From director Ian David Diaz and producer Julian Boote, who brought you the award-winning cult Brit-Flick, The Killing Zone (Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature, LA International Independent Film Festival 2000), Dead Room is by turns a dark, tense and sometimes bizarrely comic story of the various occupants of innocuously numbered Room No, 2. An otherwise ordinary flat in suburban London, owned by an untrustworthy Nigerian Landlord, No. 2 is a room born bad. You know the kind… bad karma on top of bad décor! It inevitably attracts all the wrong people, and something weird always happens there.

Giving examples of its four latest occupants - a gentle writer being driven to murder by a cruel prankster; an ill-prepared trio of women falling foul of a self-perpetuating chain of evil; a TV journalist following an alien-obsessed, barking mad assassin; and a homeless man's encounter with a crazed Stalker and her victim - the Landlord shows us just how macabre and downright odd the room's history really is.

Set in a bed-sitting London many will find all too familiar, Dead Room follows the grand tradition of Dead of Night, Creepshow, and Twilight Zone The Movie.

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At Holy Angel School for Girls, a New England boarding school, Nell Fisher is snatched by a mysterious, Poncho'd Figure. Escaping her assailant, she finds fellow students Natalie, Jade and Laurie, and reveals her attacker is the History teacher, Professor Leighton, recently suspended after accusations by Nell that he tried raping her. During the struggle however, Nell accidentally started a fire. The girls escape just as an explosion tears through the school dorm, killing many students.

Five years later, Natalie - now an actress - is persuaded by her agent that a documentary about Holy Angel could kick-start her career. Jade and Laurie have already joined up. However, Nell - still traumatised by the event - has to be coerced into returning.

Reuniting at the school, the girls tell of Leighton's obsession with Nell. Soon however a hooded stranger is seen roaming the campus. Then the group witness their documentary director's murder by a familiar Poncho'd Figure!

Terrified, the girls retreat to the sanctuary of the school, but soon the killer is inside, stalking them in the dark.

Is the killer one of the dead students' parents, eager for revenge against Nell? Or, worse still, did Leighton survive the fire?

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The Killing Zone is the taut, suspenseful - and sometimes darkly comic - story of Matthew Palmer; an underworld assassin. A professional killer, who floats in and out of each slaying, Palmer does each job quickly, efficiently. He is observer and executioner only. He has just two jobs to complete before he retires. After that - escape with his girlfriend Kerry, reward . . . rest.





Unfortunately for Palmer, both jobs dredge up past personal follies, exposing his previously traitorous acts against his former employers, blurring his personal and professional commitments, putting him on the run, pitting him against victim and fellow assassin alike, driving all involved with him toward a bloody climax.