Spectral

Movie · Action · Sci-Fi

Dr. Mark Clyne (James Badge Dale) is flown to a US military base near Chisinau, Moldova, where a civil war is taking place. Clyne is the inventor of highly advanced imaging goggles that the troops have been wearing in battle. He meets with US military and intelligence officers, who show him video footage transmitted by a soldier who appears to have been killed by a fast-moving translucent humanoid apparition. With state-of-the-art, cutting-edge camera tracking devices, he is sent with Delta Force soldiers to locate a squad of soldiers who went missing the day before and suspected to have confronted these mysterious apparitions. Upon discovering the bodies of the missing squad, Clyne and the troops are ambushed by the apparitions, and find refuge in an abandoned factory, where they discover that the apparitions, after not being stopped by all the ammunition at the Delta Force's disposal, are stopped by iron shavings. Upon this discovery, and the discovery of two children hiding out in the factory, Clyne and the soldiers must find a way to develop weaponry that utilizes iron shavings, get back to base, and stop these beings that seem to have some relation to the ghosts of wars past.

2016 · 1h 47m
  • 78%
  • 13+
Starring James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Max Martini
Director Nic Mathieu

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Cast & Crew

  • James Badge Dale
    Clyne
  • Emily Mortimer
    Actor
  • Max Martini
    Actor
  • Cory Hardrict
    Alessio
  • Bruce Greenwood
    Actor
  • Clayne Crawford
    Actor
  • Ryan Robbins
    Actor
  • Ursula Parker
    Sari
  • Gonzalo Menendez
    Captain Marco Cabrera
  • Louis Ozawa
    Sargent Chen
  • Jimmy Akingbola
    Sgt. Steve McFadden

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Spectral

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Dr. Mark Clyne (James Badge Dale) is flown to a US military base near Chisinau, Moldova, where a civil war is taking place. Clyne is the inventor of highly advanced imaging goggles that the troops have been wearing in battle. He meets with US military and intelligence officers, who show him video footage transmitted by a soldier who appears to have been killed by a fast-moving translucent humanoid apparition. With state-of-the-art, cutting-edge camera tracking devices, he is sent with Delta Force soldiers to locate a squad of soldiers who went missing the day before and suspected to have confronted these mysterious apparitions. Upon discovering the bodies of the missing squad, Clyne and the troops are ambushed by the apparitions, and find refuge in an abandoned factory, where they discover that the apparitions, after not being stopped by all the ammunition at the Delta Force's disposal, are stopped by iron shavings. Upon this discovery, and the discovery of two children hiding out in the factory, Clyne and the soldiers must find a way to develop weaponry that utilizes iron shavings, get back to base, and stop these beings that seem to have some relation to the ghosts of wars past.

13+

COMMON SENSE

Frequent battle violence in war-themed ghost story.

78%

TOMATOMETER
Average 5.7
Reviews 9
Fresh 7
Rotten 2

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Released
2016
Run Time
1 hr 47 min
Rated
PG-13
Region of Origin
United States

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