权力的玩物

　　马里斯特拉扎被称为建筑界的艺术家和大师，他所设计的建筑被同行奉为典范。在某个，一幢马里斯特拉扎的代表作拔地而起，然而这里却发生了惨绝人寰的凶案。许多无辜之人被砌在墙壁中，浇筑水泥窒息而死，这幢大楼也从此废弃。　　15年后，年轻美丽的女拆迁工程师萨曼莎（Mischa Barton 饰）自学校毕业，她从父亲手中得到拆毁那幢大楼的任务。萨曼莎独自一人前来，在这里认识了女管理员玛丽•苏特（Shannon Jardine 饰）和她的儿子吉米（Cameron Bright 饰）。从母子的口中，萨曼莎得知这幢大楼的一些禁忌，而在吉米的引导下，她逐渐发现这里阴暗的一面……

　　Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.

　　Check out the trailer for The Beast Within, an upcoming movie starring Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo, and Caoilinn Springall.　　After a series of strange events leads her to question her family’s isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds, 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret they’ve tried so desperately to conceal.　　The Beast Within is produced by Merlin Merton, Martin Owen, Ryan Hamilton, Karl Hall, Sebastian Street, Alex Chang, Jack Christian, Evan Ross, Jordan Wagner, and Ying Ye. It is written by Greer Taylor Ellison and Alexander J. Farrell.　　The Beast Within, directed by Alexander J. Farrell, opens in theaters nationwide on July 26, 2024.