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The Canal (2014)

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THE CANAL (2014) REWATCH

Slow burn Irish horror with a twist you can see a mile away. Probably would have served this better to be a short instead of a full length film but someone had to make a buck somewhere. 

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(Trigger Warning Graphic Childbirth, Child Death)

Husband and wife move into a house near a canal (The Canal), and raise their kid there. One day when the husband, David, is archiving a film he finds out a murder happened in his home which is unsettling (a husband killed his wife)! David begins to believe his wife is cheating on him which she very much is, he catches her in the act and his first thought is to bludgeon the guy to death. David is able to avoid doing this but is plagued with some special visitors when he is next to The Canal. The next day his cheating wife doesn’t show up back home… Dun dun dun! “People always suspect the husband… because it’s always the husband. Every fucking time.”

They find her body in The Canal! It appears that her heel snapped and she fell in and drowned. David continues to learn more dark history about The Canal. A dark figure is also coming up a lot in his footage and in his life, David is rather haunted. He is so convinced that the bad man is coming for him that he sends his son away but then sees the dark figure over video chat! The nanny is scared and wants to leave but isn’t sure what to do. She gets attacked by an unknown force in the night and David locks her and the kid in the closet so she totally thinks David attacked her so she’s gone.

David attempts to capture the thing on film and even puts powder on his floors so that he will see the footprints left behind by whomever is in his home! The cops find a hammer with his fingerprints on it but his wife didn’t die via hammer so I don’t know that it’s fair that he’s in any trouble other than for littering. David follows the path that he found when he opened up the wall and he follows the tunnel behind his house that leads to The Canal.

He finds some creepy stuff there and his coworker tries to talk some sense into him but he just ends up feeding her to The Canal Creature. Oh, but suddenly David remembers it was him all along who killed his wife and coworker, woops! But The Canal demons made him do it and then they dragged him down with them into the depths. I guess the dad became one of the demons too because he encourages Billy to kill himself so that he can be with his parents again.

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The Canal (Ivan Kavanagh, 2014).

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”I love you, Mom.”

Son (2021) dir. Ivan Kavanagh

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Son (Ivan Kavanagh, 2021)

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Son will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 18 via RLJE Films. The 2021 Irish-American horror film is currently available on VOD. It will later stream on Shudder.

Ivan Kavanagh (The Canal) writes and directs. Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, and Luke David Blumm star with Cranston Johnson, Blaine Maye, J. Robert Spencer, Rocco Sisto, and Kristine Nielsen.

Read on for the special features, trailer, and synopsis.

Special features:

Interviews with cast and crew

Deleted scenes

After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura’s home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son.

Pre-order Son on Blu-ray or DVD from Amazon.

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A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.

The Canal (2014) dir. Ivan Kavanagh

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Fear will pull you under.

The Canal (2014) dir. Ivan Kavanagh