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Head Trauma

2006 · 84 min

A disorienting, nightmare-like descent where reality and hallucination blur, keeping you uneasy and unsure what is real.

Directed by: Lance Weiler
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C. Mangan, Mary Monahan

Overview: After a 20 year absence, drifter George Walker returns home to settle his grandmother's estate. As if awakening from a long dream, he finds his childhood home condemned and littered with the remnants of squatters. In the midst of trying to save his past, George falls and strikes his head, triggering an onslaught of vivid nightmares and waking visions. As the horror intrudes on George's reality, his conviction grows that someone or something is trying to kill him.

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Directed by: Lance Weiler
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C. Mangan, Mary Monahan

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
memory
isolation
trauma
identity
Places: single country house
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	7
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Directed by: Lance Weiler
Written by: Brian Majeska, Lance Weiler
Starring: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C. Mangan, Mary Monahan, Meryl Lynn Brown, Brandee Sanders, Jim Sullivan, Louis A. Bisignani, Steve Garvey
Music: Brian McTear, Amy Morrissey
Cinematography: Sam Levy
Runtime: 84 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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