Rise of the Damned

Rise of the Damned

Death is their only escape

2011 · 88 min · ★ 3.2 · Horror

Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parents' lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together. The situation is complicated by the fact that her parents virtually vanished, as did the accident wreckage, so there's no evidence for the police and certainly no closure for her. Jesse meets her fears head-on when she and a group of filmmakers break into an abandoned mental institution, she immediately experiences a visceral deja-vu. The asylum seems somehow connected to her missing parents and furthermore, the building is far from deserted. The group discovers that a sinister doctor has taken up residence in the building's vast underground and he is using extreme science trying to bring his wife back from the dead! The basement also contains the countless remains of the doctor's failed experiments, all of which are now slowly coming back to life when they make contact with a murky substance that has begun to leak out of several holding tanks!

Directed by Michael Bafaro · Written by Neil Every

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Liane Balaban Jesse
Luis Guzmán Ramone
Colin Cunningham Zan
Erin Karpluk Kelly
Erica Cerra Brit
Jessica Kate Meyer Kellie
Jody York Judd
Blake Stadel Officer Romero / Orderly
Vince Murdocco Officer Savini / Orderly
Warren Christie Kevin
Christopher Redman Chad
Beau Daniels Dr. Morton Stansfield

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