| The Attic | |
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| Directed by | Mary Lambert |
| Produced by | Tom Malloy Isen Robbins Aimee Schoof Russ Terlecki |
| Written by | Tom Malloy Bob Reitano |
| Starring | Elisabeth Moss Jason Lewis Tom Malloy |
| Cinematography | James Callanan |
| Editing by | Jack Haigis |
| Release date(s) | 15th January 2008 |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Language | English |
The Attic is a 2008 horror film directed by Mary Lambert, starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Lewis, Tom Malloy, and Catherine Mary Stewart.
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Emma (Moss) has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.
Emma is convinced that someone or something is haunting her, and she refuses to leave her house until she can piece the puzzle together, with the assistance of John Trevor (Lewis), a sympathetic detective. Eventually, Emma suspects her parents of hiding skeletons in the closet from the family’s past and practising Dark Magic Rituals using symbols Wicca seemingly stole from satanism. As the clues pile up, she discovers that she did once have a sister named Beth, who died twelve days after Emma was born. Emma realizes that this identical apparition may actually be Beth returning to life. Emma witnesses Beth killing her brother and the police suspect it was really Emma. John Trevor comes to the rescue when Beth is trying to strangle Emma to death, leaving her with a gun. She suspects that her father was to blame and murders both her parents. When the police arrive, Emma threatens "John Trevor" who now claims to be a paramedic, with the gun he gave her. As she points the gun at Trevor, she is really pointing the gun at herself and pulls the trigger, blowing her own brains out. The police later discuss about the incident and Emma's former psychiatrist explains that Beth and Trevor were only in her mind. Another officer mentions that the previous owner of the house mysteriously died. The psychiatrist says that houses do not kill people, but in this case it did. The movie ends with a new family looking to buy the house. As a young girl about Emma's age explores the attic, "John Trevor," now a real estate agent called Ron, appears behind her and says they will be seeing a lot of each other.
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