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Cold Earth
Dark Secrets
UK 2008
produced by Ernest Riera, Matt Taylor, Doug Hawkes (executive) for Bridgeway Productions
directed by Frank Falco
starring Steven Elliot, Gary Daniels, Ben Shockley, Kate Thurwell, Alex Walker, Alice Grant, Sophie Holland, Silas Hawkins, Ian Cullen, Sarah Applewood, Gary Condes, Tina Barnes, Andy Gathergood, Ben Jacques, Emily Knight, Roz McCutcheon, James Nunn, Joe Speare
written by Frank Falco, music by Ioannis Kourtis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The little daughter of a celebrity couple (Gary Daniels, Kate
Thurlwell) has been kidnapped, and the police has very little to go on ...
yet Sgt Farrell (Steven Elliot), an ex alcoholic who has only recently
lost his wife and tends to outbursts of violence, and who has been working on a
connected case not long ago, finds clue after clue leading to the girl,
sometimes only led by his instincts, sometimes with the help of a ghost
girl (Alice Grant), a former victim of the kidnapper, and sometimes even
with the help of a clairvoyant. Eventually, he comes up with a suspect,
photographer Blight (Alex Walker), a man he has been holding a grudge for
for quite some time, but while Blight admits under torture he has been an
accessory to the kidnappings, he denies having anything to do with the
torture and murder (the killer's modus operandis) of the girls. Finally,
acting on another hunch, Farrell finds the celebrity father of the
kidnapped girl on the place where the killer's last victim was found, and
it doesn't need much deduction to come to the conclusion that the girl's
daddy is actually the crazy kidnapper/killer. And after an extended fight
scene in which the ghost girl intervenes on Farrell's behalf, Farrell
manages to overcome the killer, free the kidnapped girl, and help the
spirit of the dead girl to rest in peace. A rather weak film
that seems to be totally indecisive whether it wants to be a police procedural,
a ghost story or a serial killer flick, and thus blends elements of all
three genres to a less than satisfying hodgepodge, a story that always
seems to chase after its own meaning. And while the story still tries to
figure itself out, it does little but bore its audience ... well, maybe
not to death, but at least to sleep. Better avoid this one!
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