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Title: A Darker Reality (2008)
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| Daniel Baldwin | ... | The Ghost | |
| James C. Burns | ... | Alex 'Cold Steel' Belasco | |
| Sunny Doench | ... | Jesse Metcalfe | |
| Alisha Seaton | ... | Carey Andrews | |
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Alma S. Grey | ... | Becca (as Alma Saraci) |
| Grasie Mercedes | ... | Karen | |
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Warren Draper | ... | Det. Tom Hamilton |
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Jonathan Oldham | ... | Quail |
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Arthur Bullock | ... | Newt |
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Laila Dagher | ... | Kim |
| Anne Girard | ... | Amber | |
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Heather Howe | ... | Gina (as Heather Kirkland Howe) |
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Jake Hutson | ... | Jack |
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Kane Jacobs | ... | Dad |
| Scout Raskin | ... | Sharon (as Jessica Raskin) | |
A group of women wake up in a cold cement basement. Cold and terrified they find themselves captive to a depraved psychopath whose blood-lust and insanity knows no bounds. Police Detective Balasco and psychiatrist Dr. Metcalfe team up in a desperate attempt to locate the girls and their soon to be murderer - a serial killer known as Ghost. But time is running out as Ghost's sick experiments begin to leave the girls tortured beyond recognition. To survive, the girls must band together in a last attempt to save themselves from a fate far worse than death. Written by ghost
This is the story of a serial killer and torturer of women known as The Ghost. There is a cop dedicated to finding him and saving the women he has in his torture dungeon before he can kill them. There is also a shrink that is trying to get information from one woman that survived and escaped him. This movie could have been so much better. I do not know if it was the writing, directing or editing that failed here, but someone failed. There were some tense moments and I must say that I was happy with how it ended. I saw a few reviews where the author was not happy, because without giving away too much, this film does not have the traditional happy ending.
One thing that always gets me in movies like this is the attention to some details, while completely blowing it with others. My case in this film was one of the girls had been held captive for a while, how long is never said. They made her teeth look like they had not seen a decent brushing in a while. Good detail. The girls were filthy, clearly had not been given the opportunity to shower for their entire time there, yet all were clean shaven. I know it goes against modern views on how women should look, but filmmakers really need to start paying attention to such details. Women that are stranded or held captive do not have perfect hair and make-up (anything from Gilligan's Island to Lost) and they certainly do not groom themselves, like in this film.
Oh, and try not to pay attention to the microphone packs that several of the actors wear in this, how they missed that is beyond me.