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Cast: Kenneth Trujillo (The Girl from Plainville, Better Call Saul, Die Hart);Katerina Eichenberger (Monarch, Places, Please, Secrets Beneath the Floorboards); Christopher Genovese (Other Things, Baby Bird); Emma Wedemeyer (First Kill, Haunted Mansion); Kimberly Maxwell (Raising Dion, The Game, A Friend of the Family); Pierce Lackey (Stranger Things, Doom Patrol, Jesus Revolution); Katy Wilson (A Rose for Her Grave: The Randy Roth Story, A Christmas Open House, Heels); Alex Parkinson (For All Mankind)
Richard is a mute who is on parole from prison and has been released into the mandatory custody of a superstitious real estate investor who pays him to stay alone in a haunted house for six days to rid it of evil spirits. This is his chance to return to a normal life, but there’s a dark catch: if he fails to stay all six nights, the investor will send him back to prison.
Once on the isolated property, Richard finds a creepy, old doll that unleashes the evil spirit of a witch murdered on the property centuries ago. The witch haunts him and eventually tortures him using the painful memories that led him to prison. Pushed to his limit after a few days, he can’t leave or stay.
Unable to ask for help or even scream, Richard is trapped and alone, struggling to cope with haunting as it destroys his reality. There’s no telling what Richard will do if the witch-ghost fully invades his mind.
'I Will Never Leave You Alone' tells the story of Richard, a prisoner who gets released under the supervision of a real estate agent who will pay him for staying in a home that is suppose to be haunted by an old man and his wife who both died in the home. Hopefully Richard's presence will help the ghosts to move on. But there is another story told about a woman deemed a witch and how the locals tortured and murdered her. Richard not knowing awakens the witch who begins to torture him by having him relive his tragic past.
This man is already dealing with his own haunted past so what is about to happen to him just might be his end. 'I Will Never Leave You Alone' is a slow moving ghost story but it picks up steam and not only scares the hell out of you but it also becomes an original tale that talks about things rarely seen in a horror movie. It is a dark tale that doesn't pull any punches while telling a story of grief, regret, depression signs that go ignored and having to live with a past that haunts your very soul each and everyday.
Writer/Director, DW Medoff has one other feature film under his belt as well as several shorts and he knocked it out of the park with this gloomy, terrifying tale that takes the word haunted to another level. When making a film like this it never hurts to have a cast of amazing actors such as Kenneth Trujillo, Katerina Eichenberger, and Christopher Genovese to name only a few. Everyone gives realistic and believable performances that only elevates the movie.
I was pulled into Richard's life right from the start and all the way to its bitter end. 'I Will Never Leave You Alone' will keep you engaged, frightened and sad. It will keep you thinking it about long after it is over but before then it will get under your skin and inside your head.
Released by Dark Sky Films
**** Out Of *****