The 8th Night
Dark night of the soul.
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A dark, spiritually-charged supernatural thriller about a monk's desperate hunt for an ancient possessing spirit, steeped in Buddhist mythology and existential dread.
With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.
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