Absentia

Suburban Boston. Seven years gone. A pile of old shirts. Mounting legal pressure meets stubborn hope when a woman prepares to declare her husband dead in absentia. Her sister's arrival stirs a dark, subterranean mystery nearby. Flanagan's low-budget debut earns its Lovecraft comparisons.

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Mike Flanagan directed Absentia in 2011. See Mike Flanagan's full filmography, where to start with Mike Flanagan, or where to go after you've seen everything by Mike Flanagan.

Absentia was released in 2011 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 91 minutes.