It’s a rare thing to see director David Cronenberg get in front of the camera as an actor in a movie, but he has a role in a new Niagara Falls-set mystery thriller titled Disappearance at Clifton Hill. It tells a dark, moody, and fascinating story about a missing boy and woman who is digging deep to find the truth about what happened to the boy. Here’s the full synopsis, which offers more details:
Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons. Bristling with an air of surreal menace, this mood-drenched thriller is a tantalizing psychological puzzle box that unfolds in the hallucinatory realm between reality and perception.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill sounds like a movie that I’d enjoy watching because I like these kinds of stories and the film is set to hit theaters and VOD on February 28, 2020.