On Friday 9th on this June, you will have the chance to see on Shudder «Brooklyn 45», the new film directed and written by Ted Geoghegan («We Are Still Here» and «Mohawk»).

«Brooklyn 45» brings us the story of a group of friends that served and survived WWII, just a few months after returning home, they gather to bring moral support for one of their own, the Colonel Clive «Hock» Hockstatter, who has recently lost Susan, his wife, in a very tragic manner.

Hock, who clearly is loosing his battle with the loneliness and despair, convinces his friends Marla, Arch and Paul DiFranco (and Marla’s husband Bob) to humor him and perform a seance, in a effort to find closure or at least have some proof of an afterlife.

Contrary of we might expect, the seance actually works. All too well in fact.

And that is when the trouble starts.

Very quickly Marla and his friends (ok, also her husband) discover that they are now locked in Hock’s parlor, and a supernatural force won’t let them go home until one of them spills the blood of someone in that room that could (or not) be responsible of Susan’s death.

Secrets will be revealed, loyalties will be questioned and friendships will be tested.

Full Disclosure : I am big fan of Ted Geoghegan’s two previous films «We Are Still Here» and «Mohawk» (the first one being my favorite), but I tried my best to put that aside and judge this new project for itself.

Fortunately, I can say without any guilt that I found «Brooklyn 45» to be a very good film and I highly recommend it, but is also a film that you might need to see twice to fully appreciate the strong emotional punch that carries.

To be honest, I was afraid to see yet another take on the films about a seance gone wrong where an evil entity («the wrong one») comes from beyond and torture our main cast for days, but this is a very different story. This is a story where the evil ghosts were already there with our protagonists, long before this dreadful night and apparently they just needed a locked room to start to destroy the friendship and bond that until that night, seemed indestructible.

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