Trance (film)

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Trance

DVD Cover for the Trance
Directed by Michael Almereyda
Produced by Mark Amin
David L. Bushell
Andrew Fierberg
Written by Michael Almareyda
Starring Alison Elliot
Jason Miller
Christopher Walken
Music by Simon Fisher-Turner
Cinematography Jim Denault
Editing by Tracy Granger
Steve Hamilton
Release date(s) September 18, 1998
(Toronto Film Festival)
Running time 95 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $4,000,000 (estimated)
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Trance is a 1998 erotic horror film. Trance is a remake for the 1932 film The Mummy. It directed and written by Michael Almereyda. Film also known as The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy. It premiered on Toronto Film Festival, but actually film released as direct-to-video in USA, UK and many parts of the world including Argentina, Germany, Spain, Azerbaijan, Russia etc.

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[edit] Plot

Nora (Elliott) is a a young American woman of Irish origin who, well, lives up the stereotype of her people and is a bit of a lush. She and her equally inebriated husband Jeff are coming home from their latest drunken binge one night when Nora takes a tumble down the stairs of their New York apartment building. Nora survives the fall, but is soon visited by headaches, nosebleeds and hallucinations for her trouble.

Determined to dry out for the sake of their young son, the couple head to Ireland where they pay a visit her grandmother and Uncle Bill Ferriter in their huge, labrynthinian mansion. Uncle Bill harbors a dark and fascinating secret in the basement: the perfectly preserved, mummified remains of a Druid witch; one of those fascinating "bog-men". Only this one is considerably livelier than your average bog-person and, as it happens, turns out to be a distant ancestor of Nora's.

Poor old Uncle Bill quietly explains to her that the druid witch was neither good not evil in her life, but more like a force of nature. But he and we learn different when the mummy gets her groove on and sets out to steal the body, soul and identity of her hapless descendant.

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Evil sleeps, but never dies

[edit] Cast

Actor/Actress Role
Alison Elliot Nora / Niamh
Rachel O'Rourke Alice
Jared Harris Jim
Jeffrey Goldschrafe Jim, Jr.
Christopher Walken Uncle Bill Ferriter
Lois Smith Mrs. Ferriter
Sinead Dolan Nora's mother
Raina Feig Young Nora
Jason Miller The Doctor
Paul Ferriter Joe
David Geary Nora's Father

[edit] Trivia

  • It is the first and final film where Rachel O'Rourke starred in.
  • It is one of the last films of Academy Award-nominated actor Jason Miller.
  • Trance is the film debut of the musician Mark Geary. Film also features actors from his family: Karl Geary and David Geary.
  • A character from this film quotes the opening narration from the tv show named The Six Million Dollar Man (1974).

[edit] Goof

  • Revealing mistakes: When the girl cuts her throat near the end, the wound is clearly already there before she slices it. Additionally, she does not slice it directly where the wound is.

[edit] Award and nomination

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
Year Nomination Result Category
1998 Jared Harris Won Best Actor
Michael Almereyda Nominated Best Film

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