Shadow Realm (2002)

• 47%
• 2002
• Horror
• Thriller
• TV Movie
• Keith Gordon
• Ian Toynton
• Tobe Hooper
• Paul Shapiro
• Miguel Ferrer
• Malcolm McDowell
• Anna Hagan

Horror anthology film created from two unaired final episodes of Night Visions, a horror anthology series hosted by rocker Henry Rollins. His sequences were cut for the movie. The movie has four segments. In "Patterns", Psychiatrist Dan Critchley has an unusual new patient called Martin. Martin, a once successful architect, believes that he has a contract with some kind of higher power that states that as long as he performs numerous small OCD-like rituals daily, the world won't end. Amused by this story, Dr. Critchley decides to put Martin's belief to the test. In "The Maze", shut-in college student Susan Thornhill goes through the campus' hedge maze to get to her class. However, what she finds on the other side is a world void of people. When she reaches her class, she finds corpses of several students and the only living person there is her friendly music teacher, who's becomes psychotic and tries to kill her. Has the world gone mad or is there an even more terrifying explanation? In "Harmony", Eli's car break down near a small town called Harmony, where ironically music and singing are forbidden under the penalty of death, because of an old local belief that music awakes "The Beast". Eli decides to prove to them that that's just an old superstition. In "Voices", deaf woman Sandra McClinnon (played by real-life deaf actress Terrylene Sacchetti) works as a court sketch artist. During a gangland murder trial, she suddenly hears the thoughts of the homicide detective who solved the murder. She realizes from his disturbing thoughts that it was he who killed the victim and stole the victim's drug money. She tries to talk to someone about this, but no one believes her. When the detective accidentally realizes that she knows something about what he did, she has no choice but to try to find the hidden money he stole to prove he's dirty. However, it turns out that things are sometimes neither white nor black.