Altar

Dec 27, 2014

1h 35m

★ 4.9

Some secrets are best left hidden

Overview

A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

Genres

Mystery

Horror

Production Companies

Screen Yorkshire

Content Media Corp.

Great Point Media

Pygmalion Productions

Altar Trailers

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Cast

Meg

Olivia Williams

Alec

Matthew Modine

Penny

Antonia Clarke

Nigel Lean

Steve Oram

Harper

Adam Thomas Wright

Greg

Richard Dillane

Isabella

Rebecca Calder

Sean Donnelly

Jonathan Jaynes

Telephone Engineer

David Peel

Charles Kendrick Walker

Stephen Chance

Brad Mason

Mark Heenehan

Frank

Howard Lee

Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally (LAURA PENNEYCARD), a photography student who is experiencing dreams she can't explain and Emmett (GEOFF SHAW), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Emmett befriends Ally and together they unravel the truth behind the disappearance of his long lost love, Catherine a beautiful servant girl. However, Ally must first overcome her fears of his ghostly appearance before she can help Emmett find Catherine and reunite their love. Shot in the beautiful location of Hylands House, this lavish drama with a supernatural theme, leads you through past and present in a series of spine-chilling nightmares, ghostly appearances and suspenseful chase sequences, which moves into a beautiful romance tale, drawing on all your senses from the outset.

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