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Chris (Louis James) has been experiencing low cash flow lately, but he has heard about widower Lucas (Stuart Wolfe-Murray) looking for a documentary film crew to explore his large mansion - and Chris is not a documentary filmmaker, but he has heard the loot from some heist is hidden somewhere in the mansion, she he drums up a crew - his girlfriend Lisa (Sarah Alexandra Marks), his estranged sister (Kim Spearman) and a chance acquaintance, Andy (Rui Shang) - to pose as a film crew and give the place a good lookover. After all, stealing the loot would be a victimless crime, as Lucas has no idea about it and the original owners of whatever-it-is have probably long been re-imbursed while the original thieves have long been imprisoned. Now while exploring the place, they sure find something, but not what they're looking for: For one, a dead body, and for two, some chest that they open that unleashes pure evil. And then Lucas turns up and stabs them all to death - only for them to enter the house yet again - and while things take a slightly different turn, Lucas kills them all once more. None of them know they've been in this situation before, none but Laura, who tries to find out more and more about this time loop before Lucas kills all of them yet again, to eventually find out that Lucas has been caught in the same loop for much longer, and has since come up with a plan to beat it. Unfortunately, this plan doesn't come without it risks and murder ...

Now I would be blatantly lying if I'd say Manor of Darkness wasn't quite a bit far-fetched - but then again, I think above synopsis already suggests as much - and yet the movie works, basically because it manages to remain within the film's logic throughout and work the time-loop concept that's usually more of a science fiction thing into its horror framework rather flawlessly. Add to that a genre savvy direction and a very solid cast, and you've got yourself a really cool piece of genre entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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