D Horror Movies

DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS – Spike Lee’s stylized thriller Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a new kind of love story. Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society. A doctor develops a voracious thirst for blood after an art curator gives him a cursed artifact. Subsequently transformed by his inexplicable craving, the doctor falls into a treacherous affair with the curator’s alluring wife.

DAGON – In this adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft novella, two couples are sailing off the coast of Spain when a storm forces them to seek shelter in a small fishing village. As night falls the vacationers begin to mysteriously vanish, leaving one of the group left to encounter the horrifying true nature of the town that’s claimed him… The nightmare of Paul Marsh, a successful businessman, are haunted by a mermaid that neither he nor his beautiful girlfriend, Barbara can figure out. While on a fishing vacation off the Spanish shore, a sudden storm sends their sailboat crashing into the rocks, causing Paul and Barbara to paddle to the nearby fishing village for help. But the village is inhabited by a race of people who are half-human/half-fish and the time has come for them to sacrifice humans to their monstrous leader, Dagon. Not only that, but Paul’s nightmare becomes horrifying reality when he encounters beautiful and passionate Uxia the mermaid of his visions and boy does she have a surprise for him besides the double tentacles under her skirt.

DAN CURTIS’ DRACULA – Academy Award Winner Jack Palance stars in this terrifying adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire legend written for the screen by Sci-Fi/Horror master Richard Matheson and produced by the legendary Dan Curtis. Palance is Count Dracula, whose centuries-old existence is threatened after he attacks the lovely Lucy Westenra and her fiancée calls in famed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing to investigate. Filmed on location in England and Yugolsavia Dan Curtis’ Dracula has been transferred and restored in 2K High Definition from the original 35mm camera negative and presented here in HD for the first time! Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife. Bistritz, Hungary, May 1897. Natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula on business. Jonathan shows up and finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. He reacts very strongly to a photograph of Harker’s fiancée Mina and her best friend Lucy. After rescuing Harker from his three Brides, the Count forces Harker to write a letter saying that he will be staying Transylvania for a month. Harker climbs down the castle wall and finds Dracula’s coffin, but is attacked and knocked out by one of Dracula’s gypsy servants before he can stake Dracula. They later throw him in the lower levels of the crypt, where the Brides attack Harker. Some months later, the freighter Demeter runs aground on the southern English coast, carrying only Dracula and the dead captain lashed to the wheel. Soon after, Lucy begins to fall ill. Her fiancée, Arthur Holmwood, is perplexed and calls in Dr. Van Helsing. The doctor begins to recognize what might be happening, especially after Lucy walks out of her home at Hillingham and is found, drained, under a tree the next morning. Dracula meanwhile, has flashbacks about a time when he was alive, when his wife (who is also the dead image of Lucy) lay dead in her bed and men had to restrain Dracula in his grief and rage. Lucy’s mother is in the room with Mina when Dracula comes calling the last time, a wolf shattering the window. Lucy soon rises from the dead and comes to the window of Arthur’s home, begging to be let in. Arthur does so, delighted and amazed that she’s alive. This very nearly gets him bitten, but Van Helsing interrupts with a cross causing her to flee. They go to Lucy’s grave and drive a wooden stake into her heart. When Dracula comes to the tomb later and beckons to her, he goes berserk upon finding that she’s truly dead. Mina tells Van Helsing about the news story about the Demeter and the boxes of earth and about Jonathan going to meet Dracula to sell him a house. From these clues, Van Helsing and Holmwood go about finding all but one of Dracula’s “boxes of earth” (containing his native soil, in which a vampire must rest). But back at the hotel, the vampire hunters discover Dracula is there, out for revenge. He has bitten Mina and before their eyes forces her to drink blood from a self-inflicted gash in his chest. All that they love, all that is theirs, he will take. The tracking of Dracula back to his home commences with Van Helsing hypnotizing Mina. Via the bond of blood, she sees through Dracula’s eyes and discovers where he is headed. At the Castle, Van Helsing and Holmwood find and stake the Brides. Jonathan now a vampire, rabid and bloodthirsty attacks Arthur and Van Helsing, but in the struggle is knocked by Arthur into a pit of spikes and is staked. The final confrontation with Dracula takes place in what looks like a grand ballroom. The crosses wielded by the two men are something Dracula doesn’t seem to want to look upon. Dracula gets the better of them, ridding them of their crosses. But one of them manages to pull down curtains from the windows, so sunlight pours in. Dracula is weakened, finally going dormant long enough for Van Helsing to pierce his heart with a long spear. They leave him there. Before the portrait of a living warrior Dracula, with Lucy’s lookalike in the background, a text scrolls across the screen, about a warlord who lived in the area of Hungary known as Transylvania and how it was said he had found a way to conquer death a legend no one has ever disproven. The lord’s name is DRACULA.

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES – Cassie flees an abusive relationship and falls victim to a moon-worshipping 600-year-okd Romanian Countess; a troubled paranormal investigator of Native American heritage finds himself in a deadly love triangle with a battered-woman werewolf. A master female werewolf is driven from a provincial German village in 1941. In present day Los Angeles, Dr. Jay Nightraven, a paranormal investigator of Seminole Indian heritage, seeks to unravel the mystery of a series of “Full Moon Murders” in an effort to determine the veracity of his Medicine Man grandfather’s beliefs. A conflicted young woman named Cassie flees an abusive relationship and ends up in the City of Angels, Desperate and downtrodden, she soon falls under the influence of an enigmatic woman called Darcy… in reality, Daciana Calinescu, a regal and imposing Romanian Countess whose beauty belies her 600 years as a moon-worshipping werewolf… the same one driven from Germany in 1941. Darcy puts the love bite on Cassie and she becomes part of her new werewolf pack. When Jay and Cassie cross paths, Jay’s assistant and live-in-girlfriend, Lydia, finds her loyalty pushed to the limits as his investigation takes a deeply personal turn. Is the good Doctor falling in love with a battered-woman werewolf? “Dances with Werewolves” features the final role for horror icon Angus Scrimm.

DANTE’S COVE: PART 1 IN THE BEGINNING – Fleeing an unhappy home life, Kevin Foster is excited about moving in with his college lover, Toby, at a beachside apartment complex, the Hotel Dante. However, the young tenants of the old converted hotel soon suspect that the hotel’s supernatural and sinister past may be alive and well in the person of the mysterious and evil Ambrosius, whom Kevin inadvertently releases from a long bondage. Lesbian goth Van, bisexual party girl Amber and slacker Cory are among those who attempt to solve the mystery as the door has now been opened for a malevolent world of evil forces that wreak havoc in the hip beach town. Enter Grace, a woman scorned, who continues an age-old feud with Ambrosius and soon the past and present collide and life at the Hotel Dante will never be the same. In 1840 Dante’s Cove, an island resort in the Caribbean, Grace is a powerful witch who catches her fiancée Ambrosius Vallin cheating on her with a man, upon which she imprisons him the basement of their house, cursing him to spend eternity in bondage. Present Day: College dropout Kevin Archer follows his lover, Toby to the island paradise of Dante’s Cove to get away from living with his abusive and homophobic mother and stepfather. Kevin wants to start a new life at Hotel Dante, a local hotel for the gab/lesbian community and the current site of the Vallin household which is now reputed to be haunted. While deciding what to do with his life, Kevin becomes acquainted with the residents of the hotel whom include Toby’s best friend Van, an artist who struggles to pay her bills and date her girlfriend Tina. Corey is the long-term resident and outgoing gay guy. Amber is the party girl who has eyes for the local DJ Chrissy. Adam is the broken straight guy at odds with everyone and Josh is the bisexual guy whose current girlfriend is at odds with him. But Kevin and Toby’s newfound romance takes a turn when Kevin finds a trap door in the cellar and inadvertently releases Ambrosius’s evil spirit who, with a kiss from Kevin, becomes corporeal again as a warlock and all hell is about to break lose in Dante’s Cove. In 1840, Ambrosius Vallin is engaged to marry Grace Neville in the island town of Dante’s Cove. When she discovers Ambrosius being buggered by his valet, she uses her powers as the Avatar, or High Priestess, of one sect of the mystical religion called Tresum to kill the valet. Grace imprisons Ambrosius in the sub-basement of her home, cursing him with advanced age. The only way he can win his freedom is through the kiss of a handsome young man. Present Day: Kevin moves to Dante’s Cove to be with his boyfriend Toby, after moving out of his abusive household whom includes his homophobic mother and stepfather. He moves in with Toby in Grace’s old house, now the Hotel Dante, along with Toby’s lesbian artist friend Van. Adam, Toby’s childhood friend who’s a straight “trust fund brat”. Kevin begins seeing visions and hearing voices calling him by name. During a party, Kevin is drawn to the sub-basement and finds the aged Ambrosius. Ambrosius kisses him, regaining his youth and freedom. Ambrosius uses his own Tresum powers, learned while he was in captivity to force Kevin to cut his own wrist, landing Kevin in the hospital.

DANTE’S COVE: PART 2: THEN THERE WAS DARKNESS – In part two of Dante’s Cove, we continue on our journey with the residents of the mysterious Hotel Dante. Ambrosius is doing all he can to influence Kevin and lure him to the dark side. He enlists the help of Cory to assist him as a minion to do his bidding. Meanwhile, Grace has bene trying to work her way between Ambrosius and his menacing hold on the town. Van and Toby continue to work together to research the history of the Cove while trying to break the spell that seems to have a hold on Kevin. Will they be able to overpower Ambrosius before it’s too late? Having been freed from his imprisoned cell, the evil sorcerer Ambrosius Vallin retains corporeal existence from Kevin’s blood and sets up a lair underneath the Dante’s Cove lighthouse where he continues to use his powers to call upon Kevin. But when Ambrosius’ former fiancée, Grace, too enters corporeal existence, she attempts to break up the union with her own black magic. When Grace uses magic to kill Kevin while h’s recovering in the hospital, Ambrosius retaliates by imprisoning her in the bowels beneath Hotel Dante and uses the darkest magic to resurrect Kevin to make him his companion for all eternity. Meanwhile, Toby and Van try to find out what is going on due to the weirdness of Kevin’s death and mysterious resurrection and try to find leads to which Ambrosius tries to prevent them from finding out his connection to Kevin. At the same time, Ambrosius uses his powers to take control of Corby as his slave to have him keep Toby and Kevin apart as he prepares his grand plan, while Grace tries to escape from her dungeon. But in the final battle between the evil Ambrosius and the MORE evil Grace, no matter who will win… all of us still lose.

DANTE’S INFERNO: AN ANIMATED EPIC – Based on EA’s must-have game, the animated feature Dante’s Inferno follows Dante on a stunning journey through the nine circles of Hell. Watch as he travels through the limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery in search of his true love, Beatrice. Starring Mark Hamill, Victoria Branch, Graham McTavish and more.

DARK – A troubled model finds herself abandoned in her girlfriend’s New York City loft during the massive blackout of 2003 and is plagued by fear that she is being hunted. In a city on the brink of chaos, a single woman must confront her deepest fears to survive the night in New York City during the worst blackout in US history. A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout. During the New York City blackout if 2003, Kate, a struggling 30-something model with a troubled past, has just moved into her girlfriend Leah’s Brooklyn loft, but already doubts about their relationship have begun to loom. When Leah leaves for the weekend, Kate unexpectedly finds herself alone in the apartment in the middle of the worst blackout in North American history. As darkness falls over the city, Kate’s paranoia grows and she begins to believe someone in the building is stalking her. With no one to help her and escape out of reach, Kate is forced to confront her deepest fears as she fights to survive through the night. A young female couple set up home in a bleak NY apartment block. Leah is a fashion photographer; Kate is a troubled former model. Leah fears that Kate is losing feelings for her and agonizes when she takes a few days away to visit her family. While Kate is alone, NY suffers a prolonged black out. ‘Dark’ echoes Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ in parts – a beautiful blonde tormented by her paranoid and unbalanced state of mind. Kate’s decline is gradual and with her increased self-loathing, isolation and promiscuity, the film chain smokes its way to a relatively quiet climax.

DARK COUNTRY – Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading each character to an inescapable fate. A newly married couple takes a honeymoon hell-ride through the Nevada desert after hitting a mysterious car crash survivor under a starlit sky. When their injured passenger sudden turns on them, the couple instinctively fights back with lethal force and attempts to cover up their crime from the local police. But there’s no escaping fate and with every move they make the pair only manages to wind ever deeper down a darkened path. Actor Jane makes his directorial debut with this paranormal-tinged thriller also starring Ron Perlman. Newlyweds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost and to stick to the Interstate. Shortly afterward, the couple realize they are heading the wrong way and turn off the highway onto another road. Dick turns off the car headlights to drive by starlight and Gina masturbates herself to orgasm as they head across the desert. Eventually Dick turns the lights back on, immediately swerving to avoid a figure in the middle of the road. Investigating, they find a man severely injured from a car accident. Unable to get a phone signal, they decide to drive him to a hospital themselves, only for the road to come to a sudden end a few miles ahead. During the drive, the couple argue and the injured man awakens with a scream. He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash. Gina stops the car and the two men tumble out, continuing to fight until Dick beats the stranger to death with a rock. Dick convinces his wife they need to dispose of the body and together they bury it in a shallow grave. While she fills the hole, Dick finds a revolver in her handbag. Soon after, they arrive at a rest area where several cars are parked. They tidy themselves up and argue until Dick discovers he lost his watch while they were burying the stranger. Refusing to go back, Gina waits at the rest stop with the gun while Dick returns to find his watch. Arriving at the site where they hid the body, Dick finds the grave empty. Gunshots ring out across the desert and Dick races back to the rest stop to find Gina is missing. Nearby he stumbles onto a woman’s grave and realizes that the other cars are rusted and covered with dust. In a panic, he flees, almost colliding head-on with a Deputy Sheriff. In the back of the police car, he rides with the Deputy to the scene, where police are excavating murder victims from a mass grave surrounded by abandoned vehicles. The Deputy explains that this was where the rest area had been 30 years before. Dick recognizes the spot as the location where he buried the stranger. As he watches on from the back of the police car, a Deputy exhumes Gina’s body and finds Dick’s watch. Kick kicks his way out of the patrol car and escapes in one of the nearby vehicles, leading the squad of police in a chase across the desert. Driving with the lights off, he loses them, but a short while later he finds a swarm of insects, losing control and rolling the car. Thrown clear of the wreck, he is then almost run down by another car before he passes out. Some time later, Dick wakes to find himself in the back of his own car, listening to himself and Gina argue and realizes that he was the mysterious stranger that he fought with and murdered earlier in the evening, screaming at this.

DARK COVE – Five friends go camping on the wild coast of Vancouver Island. After a physical confrontation with two Australian surfers the night quickly spirals into a violent nightmare as the campers are forced to fight against man and nature to survive. Produced for only $25,000 the film’s impressive look raises the bar for micro budget filmmaking. Five friends go camping on the rugged coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Things start to go seriously wrong while partying with two Australian surfers.

DARK HIGHLANDS – Not everyone in Scotland is friendly. A Japanese artist visiting the Highlands of Scotland, is about to find out that one wrong word can get you into a lot of trouble. Especially when not everyone in Scotland is friendly. When THE ARTIST crosses paths with the disgusting GAMEKEEPER-only one of them will leave the Highlands alive. Starring the multi-award-winning Japanese actor, Junichi Kajioka, Johnny English , Dark Highlands is a thrilling-cat-and-mouse chase across the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Scotland. A Japanese artist visits the Highlands of Scotland to paint, but becomes the target of a sadistic killer. Alone, suffering from exposure and hunted, he must find a way to survive.

DARK HOUSE – A real estate agent finds himself trapped in a haunted house with a mysterious squatter and must learn to conquer his fear to escape.

LANDERS (DARK PASSENGER) – Some things will never be forgotten. Be aware. Four years after the death of a young girl, Ivan receives a phone call from the one person he thought he’d never speak to again, her brother Matt. Matt invites Ivan on a hiking trip to the desert to talk about the night of her death. Along their journey, they pick up an alien hitchhiker named Vince who becomes determined to tag along with the two. When the car breaks down, they end up at a mechanic’s house in the middle of the desert where Ivan finds himself in a labyrinth of deception and murder.

DARK REMAINS – After their daughter dies, Julie and Allen move to a rural location. When Julie begins taking photographs of the area, she sees images of her dead daughter in them and she begins to believe that her daughter may be attempting to communicate with them. Brian Avenet-Bradley’s horror film Dark Remains concerns a young couple who attempt to get over the grief they feel after their daughter is killed by moving to a secluded home in the mountains. Soon the two are beset by forces of supernatural evil. When the daughter of Emma of the technical writer Allen Pyke and the photographer Julie is found slashed in the throat and wrists in their locked apartment, the couple decides to move to an isolated cabin in the mountains in Kingspike. Julie is very depressed and blames Allen for the death of Emma. Once in the new home, Julie sees the spirit of Emma in a photo she took in a nearby abandoned prison and she becomes obsessed with shooting pictures of poltergeists. Allen is advised to move from the place by the local Jim Payne and on May 22^nd, Allen finds the former dwellers of the cabin have committed suicide and he investigates the death in the spot and finds that many people died around May 22^nd. He decides to move with Julie to a hotel, but she does not want to give up on Emma.

DARK SISTER – Cassie learns her visions of murder are real and sets out to find the child-like killer to keep sanity intact. Troubled artist Cassie suffers from reoccurring visions of murder, which she copes with by committing the violent acts to canvas. But when her visions begin to manifest in real life, her friends and family begin to turn up dead. Realizing her visions actually provide a direct link to the killer, Cassie must now confront her own past in order to stop the murders and save herself.

DARK NATURE – A mother and daughter arrive at a remote community for a relaxing holiday, only to realize to their horror that they may never make it back home alive. A family holiday turns into a fight for survival in the inhospitable wilderness of remote Scotland. Jane and her family travel to Scotland to spend time with Jane’s mother. Unbeknownst to Jane and her family, their relatives have been murdered by a sinister force and that dark and unnatural something remains, waiting for them. Despite her best efforts, the already established tensions with her daughter Chole only manage to escalate while her son and her lover have troubles of their own.

DARK SUMMER – A teenager placed under house arrest is haunted by the suicide victim he once obsessed over. A 17-year-old is on house arrest for the summer while his mother is away on business. A horrifying incident occurs leaving an ominous presence in the house. Dark Summer combines the supernatural terror of classic horrors The Shining and Poltergeist, with the tension and modern cool of Disturbia. Summer is a time to relax, unwind, take a vacation, and be free. But 17-year-old Daniel Austin gets none of that because his obsessive online stalking of his classmate and crush, Mona Wilson, got him put on house arrest for the whole summer. So, no cell phone, no Internet, no leaving the property, and especially no Mona. Then Daniel’s single mother has to go on a long business trip and Daniel has the place to himself. Daniel figures out a way to piggyback onto his neighbor’s; wireless signal and believing he’s surfing off the grid, uses his time to check in on his friends and Mona. But when Daniel didn’t expect is for Mona to check up on him. And what she does next shakes him to the very core. And then things start to happen. Daniel receives mysterious packages in the mail, hears phantom noises, sees inanimate objects move and feels a strange presence in the house. Dark Summer is highly original twist on the supernatural summer season terror. Daniel Austin, 17, has been placed under house arrest for stalking classmate Mona Wilson and hacking into all of her accounts and social media. Under the terms of his house arrest, he is not allowed visits from unaccompanied minors nor is he allowed access to his computer (which has been confiscated by the authorities) or the Internet. His I.P. address has been tagged so as to alert authorities if he attempts to access any social media. As his mother is away on business, he alone in the house. Daniel’s parole officer, Stokes explains that Daniel’s monitoring tag will go off if he goes past the edge of the front lawn. If he does not retreat within five seconds, he will be arrested. Daniel mentions hearing of someone under house arrest who cut off their foot to get the monitoring tag off so they could flee to Mexico. Despite the restrictions placed on Daniel, his friends Abby Feller and Kevin Dowdle visit and bring him a tablet so that he can access a neighbor’s Internet connection and Skype his mother. As the three converse by the pool, it is rather clear that Abby has a crush om her friend Daniel. Daniel explains that he wasn’t interested in Mona but then developed an obsession – virtually overnight. When he is about to Skype his mother, Abby contacts him instead. After a brief conversation, he receives an incoming Skype call from Mona Wilson, who kills herself on camera. Following this incident, Daniel becomes more and more paranoid and keeps seeing Mona in the house. Daniel and his friends attempt a séance to contact the spirit of Mona. The idea is that by each holding pens, Mona will communicate with them. Instead, Daniel and Kevin stab Abby through the hand with their pens. She is then lifted up and dragged across the wall. Afterwards, we see the blood from her injured hand spells out “Daniel” on the wall. After more supernatural events, Abby and Kevin head over to the dead girl’s house. They are looking for a personal item of Mona’s they can use as part of a ritual to help her move on to the afterlife. When they arrive at the house, they find it empty. They break in and guided by Daniel who has a blueprint of the house, they head to Mona’s room which is bare apart from a blood-stained mattress (from Mona shooting herself). They realize with Daniel’s help, that there is a false wall at the back of a closet which leads to a secret room which contains a number of strange artifacts and a large number of photos of Daniel. Mona was stalking Daniel, not the other way around. One of the items they find has a strange symbol embossed on it. Daniel finds out what it is and uses the name of the symbol as the password to Mona’s cloud account. There he finds a folder called “Daniel” which contains a spell. It turns out that Mona secretly had a crush on Daniel and had been obsessively stalking him for a long time. She put a spell om Daniel to make him fall in love with her. It worked, but he was too shy to contact her, so Mona used a second spell so that her spirit could enter into Daniel’s body alongside his own spirit so they would be together. There are five steps to the spell, the first of which was Mona’s suicide. They realize that if all the steps are not completed by Daniel, the spell will fail. Abby therefore takes the last step, hoping that this will break the spell. However, Abby has already unwittingly carried out the previous steps of the spell so performing the last step brings Mona’s spirit into her body. While they are cleaning up after the failed séance, Abby kills Kevin and then cuts off Daniels leg so she can remove his house arrest monitor and abduct him without notice. When Stokes visits, he sees the severed leg on the floor and just thinks Daniel has absconded, as he described when he was first fitted with the tag. In a post-credits scene, Abby still possessed by Mona’s spirit, is seen driving Daniel out of town while he lets out muffled screams.

DARK EXORCISM – Some things should never come to light… A skeptical grad student and a renowned paranormal specialist investigate a potentially haunted home and the troubled woman inside whose affliction may be beyond the capacity of either of them.

DARK TOURIST – A disturbed and troubled man whose fascination with serial killers leads him and the audience on a horrific and menacing journey through his obsessive and twisted mind as he retraces their footsteps. A man obsessed with serial killers starts to lose his grip on reality while retracing the footsteps of a notorious psycho who once stalked the streets of New Orleans. Michael Cudlitz. Melanie Griffith and Pruitt Taylor Vince star. A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man’s dark hobby and his even darker mind. Jim Tahana doesn’t have much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you’ll sense his hunger – the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul – always scanning to devour something – anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: Grief tourism – the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This year’s obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murderer from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim’s rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Dark Tourist to its brutal and shocking finale. Jim Tahna, a quiet and solitary man, explains in voice-over narration his hatred of society and his employers, though he enjoys his work as security guard, as it allows him long periods of solitude. On his vacation time, he engages in dark tourism, the visitation of murder sites. His current subject is Carl Marznap, a mass murderer and arsonist. He leaves Yonkers, New York, to visit Carl’s home in California. His neighbor at the cheap motel in which he stays, Iris, turns out to be a prostitute. Nervous, Jim fumbles in conversation with her, then states in voice-over how much he hates prostitutes. At a local restaurant, he meets Betsy, a friendly waitress. Jim introduces himself to her as Carl and falsely claims that his sister has been diagnosed with cancer. Betsy and Jim draw closer over their difficult lives and she invites him to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. On his tour of Marznap’s home and crime scenes, Jim becomes increasingly disturbed by hallucinations and vague flashbacks. Eventually, Jim hallucinates Marznap himself, who urges him to teach the world what it feels like to be a victim. Once tortured and gang-raped in juvenile detention, Marznap explains he sought revenge by burning down a church, as he blamed those people for doing nothing to help him while his father abused him. After the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim and Betsy bond further and Betsy invites him to dinner at her house. Betsy offers him marijuana and he reluctantly accepts. When she tries to kiss him, he becomes agitated and demands that they have sex without any affection. When she asks him to slow down, he berates her and leaves. Marznap encourages him to visit Iris. A transwoman, Iris has anal sex with Jim and he flashbacks to a childhood gang rape. Jim and Carl discuss their shared experiences and Jim expresses his belief that he is broken beyond repair. The next day, at the restaurant, Betsy apologizes to him and he calls her disgusting. She runs away crying and Jim returns to his motel. Jim breaks into Iris’ room, scares off her client and beats her savagely. After he berates Iris, God and the kids who raped him, he takes Iris to the church where he strangles her. Marznap and Jim then discuss what to do next: Marznap counsels him to commit suicide and Jim slits his own throat. In the epilogue, the police reveal that Jim had killed six trans-women prostitutes on his various dark tourism trips and a young man visits Jim’s house as part of his own dark tourism. Around a hole in the wall in Jim’s house, a message reads “From this void, no one returns!”