Nightworld (2017 film)
Nightworld (2017 film), AKA The Beyond, Fade (working title)
Summary
A former LAPD officer takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria, where he begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events while delving deep into the building's sinister history, uncovering a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into the world.
Details
- Release Date: 2017
- Country/Language: USA, English
- Genres/Technical: Horror, Thriller
- Setting: Modern Sofia, Bulgaria
- Runtime: 1 hr 32 min
- Starring: Jason London, Robert Englund, Gianni Capaldi
- Director: Patricio Valladares
- Writer: Loris Curci, Dimitar Hristov, Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic
- Producer/Production Co: Loris Curci, Open Frames, Global Group
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: TV-MA (violence, profanity, nudity, sexual situations)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)
Built on the basic sealed-evil-in-a-can plot in which the weird building contains a sealed door to The "Other Side", where an evil older than mankind is imprisoned and awaits an opportunity to escape and rule the world in chaos and madness.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis (SPOILERS)
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A former LAPD officer takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Bulgaria, where he begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events while delving deep into the building's sinister history, uncovering a secret cabal of alchemists working against a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into the world.
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Comments, Trivia, Dedication
Associated Mythos Elements
- films: riffs on the likes of Michael Winner's The Sentinel (1977 film), Dario Argento's Inferno (1980 film), and Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy (1980 franchise)....
- race: Deadites
- location: The Other Side
- race: Human Cultists
Keeper Notes
- The investigators are hired as security to watch a strange and seemingly quiet building standing over the gates which imprison an evil older than humanity, just before the last member of a cult of alchemists watching over the portal dies....
