"To kiss or to kill?"
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
Social & External
The people behind it
John Mills
Phillip Davidson
John McCallum
Supt. Bob Lowther
Elizabeth Sellars
Fay Lowther
Eva Bergh
Ilse
Geoffrey Keen
Craig
Michael Martin Harvey
Jackson
John Chandos
Boyd
John Slater
Pewsey
Thora Hird
Mrs Pewsey
Vida Hope
Alice Gedge
NYC’s genre-bending Temporary Distortion mines the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and J-Horror in Americana Kamikaze. Inside one of Temporary Distortion’s signature box structures, an East-meets-West psychological horror story unspools, complete with vengeful spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, nightmarish cinematography and stunning visuals. Temporary Distortion has been making new works that seamlessly blend theater, cinema and installation since 2002. Their work has been presented in the US, Canada, France and Austria.
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A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
