Silvana Zancolo's 'The Shadow Within' at NYCHFF

Director Silvana Zancolo's new horror film The Shadow Within is playing the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival (NYCHFF) (November 18 thru 22) on Sat, Nov 21, 6:30PM at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.

The Shadow Within is a supernatural thriller about Maurice Dumont, a nine year-old with an enduring connection between this world and the next...

Propelled by grief over the death of Maurice’s twin brother Jacques at birth, his mother falls under the influence of the enigmatic Madame Armand, who seduces Marie with the hope that the Dumonts will be reunited again by forcing Maurice to act as a medium to the afterlife. When Maurice suffers an unaccountable fever, Dr. Prevost becomes fearful of the mysterious changes to his body. As Jacques asserts himself through Maurice, Maurice deteriorates, coming to the realization that Jacques desires the same thing he does: the love of their parents, only Jacques does not want to return to the living, he wants his parents to join him in the afterlife. As Maurice tries to warn of the imminent danger they all face, Madame Armand and her followers - other women that prematurely lost their children - induce Marie to persuade Maurice to collaborate, hoping that it would help them meet their sons again. Not even the mysterious death of one of them is enough to make them give up. Maurice, weaker and weaker, is unable to hold back the souls that try to burst out of him. Only Dr. Prevost, noticing that something is going wrong, tries to help him. As Dr. Prevost confronts Marie, she finds that Marie is willing to do anything to be returned to Jacques - no matter the cost.