Farhope Tower

Farhope Tower
Directed by April Mullen
Produced by Tim Doiron
April Mullen
James van der Woerd
Written by Jeremy Doiron
Michael Doiron
Starring April Mullen
Music by Paul Gigliotti
Chris Turpin
Cinematography Russ De Jong
Edited by James van der Woerd
Production
company
WANGO Films
Distributed by Breakthrough Entertainment
Release date
[1]
Running time
 82 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

Farhope Tower is a 2015 Canadian thriller film directed by and starring April Mullen.[2][3][4][5]

Plot

The film starts with a man killing his pregnant wife in their penthouse apartment in Farhope Tower after learning she had cheated on him, and there was a chance the baby was not his. The man then calmly puts a record on before hanging himself.

Decades later, five amateur paranormal investigators - Jake, Andre, Zoe, Judy, and Simon - are struggling to get their own television series. They learn that a producer is interested in their show, but demands they film a pilot episode at Farhope Tower, which is infamous due to the high number of suicides and murders committed there. While Jake, Judy, and Simon are enthusiastic about the opportunity, Andre is worried, as Farhope Tower was the first place he and Jake encountered the paranormal as children, and they had sworn never to go back. Jake convinces Andre that everything will be fine. That night, Jake has a nightmare in which he is wandering Farhope Tower before an unseen person grabs him by the neck.

The group go to the tower and find it abandoned and in disrepair. Simon finds a room with the message "Go Up" written all over the walls, then later finds several newspaper clippings regarding the incidents in the tower, including the murder from the opening scene, which also reveals that the pregnant woman's baby survived. The group deduce that, since all the suicides happened in the top floors of the building, that is where they will find any trace of spirits. They discover a staircase and make their way to the tenth floor as night falls.

Jake suggests the group split up, despite Andre's protests. Jake and Simon go off alone and find an office, where Simon finds and reads a suicide note; as he reads it, Jake begins experiencing a severe headache. Simon then asks Jake if he and Zoe are a couple. Jake becomes suddenly angry and attacks Simon before immediately returning to normal. A panicked Simon demands they leave the tower, but Jake begins screaming at him again. Meanwhile, Zoe, Judy, and Andre hear music and find an unplugged radio that somehow works. Zoe makes contact with a spirit, but when she begins asking questions, extremely loud screams fill the room and destroy their equipment and cellphones.

Jake awakens with his head bleeding and Simon nowhere to be found. He meets up with the others. Zoe and Andre want to leave, but Judy refuses to give up on their pilot and the chance at fame, and Jake agrees. They begin searching for Simon, only to discover that the tower seems to be changing, with doors and staircases vanishing, leaving them with no way to get down. Andre angrily confronts Jake, revealing that when they came to Farhope Tower as kids, Jake was possessed by a spirit and nearly killed Andre. Jake refuses to leave without Simon, but begins hearing voices telling him to "go up".

Zoe enters a room and begins screaming - the others find her with her leg snapped, and she says the room had no floor and she was falling. Zoe reveals she is pregnant with Jake's baby. Jake sees Simon at the end of the hall and the group attempt to follow; Andre becomes separated from the others and is possessed by a spirit who forces him to disembowel himself. The group find him as he dies. They try to find a way to get out of the tower, but Zoe is suddenly possessed and begins flailing and moaning before suddenly miscarrying the baby. She returns to normal and breaks down sobbing, and Jake tries to comfort her while a horrified Judy runs off.

Judy discovers Simon's GoPro camera on the floor and watches the footage, which reveals that Jake murdered Simon while being possessed by a spirit. Jake comes to find her and becomes possessed again, and he chases Judy through the hallway. Judy gets away, and a woman's voice tells Jake to "go up". Jake returns to Zoe and convinces her that going up is the only way to get out of the tower. Judy manages to end up on the roof of the tower, where a ghost possesses her and forces her to stab herself in the throat.

Simon and Zoe make their way to the penthouse. Zoe finds a photograph of the man and his wife from the opening scene, and realizes that Jake is the baby that survived and was given away - the spirits of Jake's mother and his mother's killer had been luring him there ever since Jake entered the tower as a child. Jake, possessed by the man's spirit, brutally beats Zoe to death. Jake then calmly gets a chair and a rope and hangs himself, mirroring the deaths of his mother and father.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Miska, Brad (2 July 2015). "The 2015 Film4 FrightFest Is Jam-Packed With Horror!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Walkuski, Eric (4 August 2015). "EXCLUSIVE TRAILER DEBUT FOR FARHOPE TOWER STARRING APRIL MULLEN". JoBlo.com. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Law, John (12 May 2016). "Mullen brings horror flick home for Film Fest". Niagara Falls Review. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Sandwell, Ian (2 July 2015). "Film4 FrightFest scores 20 world premieres". Screen Daily. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Barton, Steve (2 July 2015). "Film4 FrightFest 2015: Line-up Announced; Image Blow-Out!". Dread Central. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
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