The Canal

A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's. Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has had a rough time lately, suspecting that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) is cheating on him with Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives him a reel of to-be-archived footage that shows that his house was the setting for a brutal murder in 1902. David begins to believe that he has a spectral presence in his house; becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, he ends up following Alice to a nearby canal--and discovering that she is indeed having an affair with Alex. When she goes missing shortly afterward, David contacts the police, only to become the prime suspect in her disappearance. As the police grow more convinced that David has murdered his wife, he struggles to find proof of his growing suspicion that something otherworldly was responsible instead. —via Wikipedia David and his pregnant wife Alice buy an old house nearby a canal to raise their family. Five years later their son Billy is their pride and joy. David works archiving and editing films for his partner and friend Claire. When she gives a reel of a 1902 footage to work, David learns that his house was the place of a violent murder. This discover haunts David that sees a stranger inside his house threatening his son. When he finds that Alice is cheating on him with her client Alex, David sees the stranger killing Alice and becomes obsessed to find the suspect. Meanwhile, his disturbed attitudes make him the police's prime suspect. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil