Simon Blake
Featuring a Post-Film Q&A with Simon Blake and Colette Delaney-Smith | Sunday, August 7th at 7pm Leda (a writer), arrives at the estate of ITHACA. She is penning the memoirs of the previous owner. Family and friends are gathering for a memorial dinner in his honour. Leda is convinced that one of the owner’s siblings is responsible for the childhood disappearance of her twin sister. She meets The Waiter, an enigmatic figure with powers far reaching and a deep connection to Ithaca and the family. The Waiter informs her of the family’s history. Leda gradually falls more under of spell of The Waiter and his soothing hallucinatory teas as he prepares the food in almost fetishist detail for the upcoming banquet. The ghosts of Ithaca slowly envelop her, she begins to teeter on the edge of sanity ravaged by terrifying images. The children, including the Waiter himself, were subjected to a campaign of abuse led by the eldest son but aided by the remaining siblings. Leda is distraught at the discovery of a corpse that she believes to be her sister’s. She also discovers just how far The Waiter is willing to go to enact revenge. He fatally poisons the guests leaving only Leda and the siblings alive. He extracts confessions from them before executing the family. The staff who assist him, now their true selves, the ghosts of the abused children made real. The Waiter however now with blood on his hands is trapped in an adult purgatory. Innocence lost. ITHACA is a revenger’s tragedy. A film that will bend the conventions of horror into something unique and original. Haunting and deeply unsettling, a story that turns into something ominous and disquieting until its savage and carnal climax.
2022
United Kingdom
English
45 mins
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