Winner of the Best Feature Award at the 2006 New York City Horror Film Festival, FINGERPRINTS is a particularly unique horror movie – part ghost story, part old-school slasher – that combines two genre elements to produce a creepy and effective shocker high on suspense.
Following a heroin overdose induced near-death experience and a spell in rehab, troubled teenager Melanie (Pipes) returns to live with her father, mother and elder sister, Crystal (Cavallari), in the family’s new home in a small town of Emerald, Texas. Shortly after arriving Melanie learns that for fifty years the town has been haunted by the memory of a tragic accident in which a train collided with a school bus on a railway crossing killing all the children on board. From this tragedy has emerged a local urban legend claiming that if a driver stops his or her car on the same stretch of track and switches off the engine, the ghosts of the children will push the car to safety. Some people even claim to have discovered the fingerprints of the children on the backs of their cars.
With its supernatural elements adding a fresh and entirely unpredictable spin to the tried and tested slasher conventions, FINGERPRINTS is the perfect movie for horror fans looking form something slightly different from the usual run-of-the-mill slasher flick. It’ll be released on DVD here in the UK by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 20th April 2009. So be in with a chance of grabbing your own free copy simply by entering your details below.
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