RED SHIFT
by Emeke Nwokedi

Genre: 
Psychological thriller.

Style: 
Neo Noir, with black comedy.

Central Theme: 
A film about a man being brainwashed into believing he’s a serial killer.

Similar Film Genre/Style Comparisons:
The Usual Suspects.  The Boston Strangler.  The Manchurian Candidate (original B&W version), Barton Fink, Brazil.

SYNOPSIS
Red Shift is a surrealistic thriller about a man being brainwashed into believing he’s a serial killer.

Glamour photographer Milton Webber has blackouts where he feels he shifts into another dimension.  Each time he awakes to find himself totally lost and confused somewhere he’s never been before.  We see seemingly unconnected scenes of brutal killings, and soon Milton begins to tie the two things together – each time he has a blackout someone dies…

Is Milton a grisly psychopath?  Not even he knows.  Just who are “The Rose” and “The Tulip”?  Why do a couple of apparently harmless men with the humour of pallbearers appear so often by coincidence?  Who is Cassandra?  - apparently a ten year old girl, but with wisdom encompassing a universe.  And just what has all this to do with a hidden brotherhood of companies called the Siphon?

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