Riddle - Every city has its deadly secret

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Movie
German title Riddle - Every city has its deadly secret
Original title Riddle
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John O. Hartman
Nicholas Mross
script John O. Hartman
Nicholas Mross
Cole Stamm
Brian Hartman (Story)
production Phillip Glasser
Brian Hartman
Annie Loeffler
Ashley Mross
music Scott Glasgow
camera Jeff Garton
cut Roe Baker
occupation

Riddle - Every city has its deadly secret (Original title: Riddle ) is an American thriller from the directors John O. Hartman and Nicholas Mross for the production company DARONIMAX Media from 2013 with Elisabeth Harnois and Val Kilmer in the lead roles. The film was shot based on a story by Brian Hartman .

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In a small town in Pennsylvania , the younger brother of Holly plate disappears suddenly Nathan. She reproaches herself for leaving her naive but good-natured brother in the care of the two stiff teenagers Matt and Cameron, who were having fun teasing and teasing Nathan. After a joyride in Cameron's new car, Nathan disappears without a trace and a major search by the police and the FBI remains unsuccessful.

Three years later, Holly became a young college student, but Holly still suffers from the loss of her brother for whose disappearance she blames herself. When she suddenly believes she has recognized her brother's extraordinary sneakers in a stranger at a flea market, she immediately leaves the stand of the acquaintances and spontaneously starts looking for the person who could know more about her brother's whereabouts. Your only trace is an off-road vehicle, which shortly afterwards had almost escaped from the scene of the market. When she inquires of a market operator, she learns that the owner of the car, who occasionally delivers firewood to the market, is a person from the neighboring town of Riddle. And the two boys Matt and Cameron also come from Riddle. On the spur of the moment, Holly sets off with her car in search of the ominous place. When she crosses a remote bridge into the small town of Riddle, she has a strange feeling. Shortly before, she had already had a breakdown in her car when she suddenly had to avoid a deer on the road and the car crashed into an obstacle. She crossed the town on foot, saw the ubiquitous decay of the town and went to the police station to report the news to the local sheriff. Sheriff Richards, an opaque character, is not at all pleased with the appearance of the girl and the trouble that can be expected with it and lets the girl be tough on her request for help. But suddenly Holly receives help from the sheriff's daughter, Amber, an attractive drifter who thinks her father is a failure. Amber teams up with Holly and leads her to Matt and Cameron. At first they are also not very enthusiastic when they meet Holly Teller, but because of their feelings of guilt about the sudden disappearance of the boy at a gas station where they had stopped back then, they feel they have to help.

In a pub, the landlord slipped a message to Holly. At home with Cameron, she receives another mysterious message slipped under the door, asking her to go to the nearby quarry. Holly drives to the quarry, but there she doesn't find the landlord, but the dodgy Jack Abel, who attacks the girl after a short conversation. Amber, Matt and Cameron who followed Holly arrive on the scene and Cameron can only just prevent Holly from being killed by Abel with a blow, instead Jack Abel falls down into the quarry and has a fatal accident. In the sheriff's office, the four young adults work on the personnel files in the evening to find out more about the origins of Abel and Nathan, there you finally find out that Holly and Nathan are actually called Bristol, come from Riddle themselves and only from them Tellers were adopted after their insane father killed his wife with numerous knife wounds in a fit of murder and was placed in the local psychiatric clinic alongside other criminals in Riddle. This facility was seen by many as an eyesore and was a thorn in the side of the police and many residents, and years earlier some militant citizens had come together to form a vigilante justice group, among them Abel and Richards - the latter at least in passive form, and the psychiatric clinic with Molotov cocktails in Set fire. Many clinic inmates fell victim to the incendiary charges, but not all of them died.

One of the people who escaped the flames at the time was Gene Bristol, Nathan's biological father. He had discovered his son three years ago, kidnapped him and locked him in a dungeon in the basement of a lonely property in Riddle. After the four young adults track down the hiding place in Bristol, a fight ensues, with Cameron and Matt being brutally murdered by Gene Bristol. Amber, who had previously trapped her foot in a leghold , escapes badly injured. Holly, on the other hand, is kidnapped by her father and taken to the burned-out clinic and tortured with electric shocks because he hates her as a daughter just as he hates his wife. Holly, who had smashed a flammable bottle on the floor in the last presence of mind, can light a stick from the matchbook she found under the door as a message, set the floor on fire, and also her father, who wanders around as a living torch to disable whoever had previously come into contact with the broken bottle. Gene Bristol dies in front of his daughter. The exhausted Holly meanwhile frees her brother. Amber, who was able to communicate with her father with the last of her strength, is finally removed by paramedics. Holly and her brother cannot leave the town of Riddle alive without tearing its terrible secret from him.

Production notes

The scenes are from Smith Harper Hutchings. Diane Collins was responsible for the costumes and Lendie Lee contributed the production design. The film was set in Brownsville, Pennsylvania , USA .

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