Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Tag: descent into madness
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Torment
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul’s downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.
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Road Train
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
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Beneath
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
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Batman: The Killing Joke
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.
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Pure As The Driven Snow
A young drug dealer stumbles upon a doppelganger online celebrity who tortures and murders people on camera. As his mania grows and the line between reality and fiction is blurred, a second identity grows from his second life in his dreams, and something of a prophecy is revealed.