'Altar': title change; will be shown on UK TV
Altar, Olivia's movie with Matthew Modine, has been retitled as The Haunting of Radcliffe House. Aside from the re-titling, it will now be shown in the UK as a tv movie on December 27th in Channel 5
Here's the plot synopsis from TV Rage and a still from the film
The Haunting of Radcliffe House follows the story of Alec Hamilton and his wife, Meg who move to a remote house called Radcliffe house, with their children Penny and Harper. Meg has been hired to renovate the property. She takes a tour of the building, with one of her builders called Donnelly, here she comes across a bizarre room which has a mosaic on the floor. Donnelly tells Meg that the room was were the old owner Mr Radcliffe murdered his wife, Isabella in a demonic ritual. The rumour is that Isabella had haunted Mr Radcliffe, until he was driven to killing himself. Now both ghosts are said to be haunting the property.
The Hamiltons try settling in and are surprised when a local historian, Charles Walker comes to visit. He insists Radcliffe never meant to kill his wife and that the ghosts are just rumour. Meg decides to do some of her own research and learns that a man named Walker once died in the houses fountain. She finds out that Charles Walker was in fact Radcliffe and is the man who visited the house. More and more strange things continue to happen and it appears that the Hamilton family's arival has unleashed supernatural emanations related to the past of the estate. Meg unlocks the secrets of the mosaic and it soon becomes clear what Radcliffe's demonic intentions were, as the family find themselves in grave danger.
Sources: one | two
Here's the plot synopsis from TV Rage and a still from the film
The Haunting of Radcliffe House follows the story of Alec Hamilton and his wife, Meg who move to a remote house called Radcliffe house, with their children Penny and Harper. Meg has been hired to renovate the property. She takes a tour of the building, with one of her builders called Donnelly, here she comes across a bizarre room which has a mosaic on the floor. Donnelly tells Meg that the room was were the old owner Mr Radcliffe murdered his wife, Isabella in a demonic ritual. The rumour is that Isabella had haunted Mr Radcliffe, until he was driven to killing himself. Now both ghosts are said to be haunting the property.
The Hamiltons try settling in and are surprised when a local historian, Charles Walker comes to visit. He insists Radcliffe never meant to kill his wife and that the ghosts are just rumour. Meg decides to do some of her own research and learns that a man named Walker once died in the houses fountain. She finds out that Charles Walker was in fact Radcliffe and is the man who visited the house. More and more strange things continue to happen and it appears that the Hamilton family's arival has unleashed supernatural emanations related to the past of the estate. Meg unlocks the secrets of the mosaic and it soon becomes clear what Radcliffe's demonic intentions were, as the family find themselves in grave danger.
Sources: one | two