Resolution (film)
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| Written by | Justin Benson |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Resolution is a 2012 American horror thriller film directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead, written by Benson, and starring Peter Cilella and Vinny Curran. Cilella plays a professional from the city who goes back to his hometown to save his junkie friend, played by Curran.
Michael Danube, a professional graphic designer who lives in the city with his wife, receives an email that contains a video of Chris Daniels, his former best friend. Chris has become a junkie, and his behavior is delusional and erratic. A map is included with the video. Despite the objections of his wife, Michael decides to make one last attempt to save his friend from drug addiction. Michael promises to return after one week and follows the map to a run-down house, where he hears Chris ranting and shooting a pistol. Michael cautiously approaches the house and announces himself. Chris reacts positively and invites him in, ranting about various subjects. Michael tries to convince Chris to go to rehab, but Chris refuses. Michael uses a stun gun to stun Chris and handcuffs him to a pipe. When Michael returns from a shopping trip, he sees Chris trying to cut through his handcuff with a toothbrush. In the morning, Michael uses the stun gun again to stave off an attempted attack by Chris.
Later, Micah and Billy show up and tell Michael that Chris is holding their drugs, which they want back. Chris warns Michael not to mess with them, as they have become more violent and unpredictable since Michael last knew them. Michael takes a walk and meets members of a UFO religion, then returns to the house and finds a set of strange photographs. Micah and Billy return, but they are scared off by Charles, a tribal security guard who tells Michael that Chris is squatting on reservation land. Michael bribes him to allow them to stay there for five days. Michael then finds creepy film footage, and Chris tells Michael that he never sent any emails or videos. Michael finds a book full of creepy campfire stories on their doorstep, and, when he returns the book to the library, finds film slides. Confused by the items that seem purposefully left for them to find, Michael suggests that it's a prank by Billy and Micah, but Chris dismisses the idea as irrelevant.
Michael continues to find conspicuous clues strewn about the area. When he bribes Charles for information, Charles warns him off and tells him that French students used the area for research. They encounter a con man who offers to buy the house, but he leaves after Michael reveals that they are only renting. When Michael rewatches the video he received in the e-mail, the video has changed: it now shows an argument that Michael and Chris just had moments before, over whether they should have made a deal with the con man. When Billy and Micah return, they kill the dog that Chris has adopted, and Chris reveals that he is suicidal. Michael tracks down the dog's original owner, an archeologist named Byron who was a member of the original French research team at the site. Byron believes the area is not haunted; instead, something there desires stories. Byron stresses the need for a beginning, middle, and end. Alarmed by Byron's eccentricity, Michael leaves and returns to the house.
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