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COLD AND DARK

Director/s

Andrew Goth

Screenwriter/s

Joanne Reay

Studio/Distributor

First Look Home Entertainment (US DVD)

Cast

Luke Goss, David Baker, Michael Culkin, Steven Elder, David Gant, Kevin Howarth, Matt Lucas, Phys Moosa, Carly Turnball, Dan van Husen, James Whale

Plot

Detective Sergeant JOHN DARK is a good copper, working the tough beat of Vice in London's East End. His long-time mentor is the charismatic Detective Chief Inspector MORTIMER SHADE (MORT). He has taught DARK every trick in the book. Sometimes the fight is against the Bad Guys; sometimes it is against their own, when police bureaucracy gets in the way of good coppers bending the rules. When MORT is killed by an unknown assailant, DARK is devastated. He tries to run the killer down, but fails. When he returns to his boss' corpse, he is astonished to find MORT alive and seemingly well. The following weeks see a series of bizarre underworld killings where MORT and DARK'S adversaries are taken out by a sequence of mysterious bestial attacks. Each one of the gangsters that police protocol prevented MORT and DARK from touching, are suddenly prey to a savage brand of justice beyond official control. DARK discovers that MORT is the cause. The attack that left MORT for dead was perpetrated by a supernatural creature and MORT has now joined its legion. DARK finds himself facing a challenge to his loyalty and ethics; if his friend and mentor is still only taking out the Bad Guys, does it matter that he is doing so by supernatural means?