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A Cambridge professor shares the eerie secret of a Venetian carnival painting that can entrap the living within its frame.
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A Cambridge professor shares the eerie secret of a Venetian carnival painting that can entrap the living within its frame.
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An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master. In the apartment of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge, there is a painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, the old professor has decided to reveal the painting's eerie secret. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim...
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Romantic jealousy and a jilted lover underpin the painting's curse
Violence & gore
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Supernatural entrapment and implied deaths; dread over graphic gore
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Occult / demonology
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Cursed painting traps the living; central ghostly demonic force
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Revenge via supernatural imprisonment; victims trapped against will
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