Cruel Peter

5

Italy

Horror

95 min

2020

Angelica Alleruzzo Aurora Quattrocchi Biagio Pelligra Katia Greco Gabriele Greco Elisabetta Fusari Rosie Fellner Henry Douthwaite Claudio Castrogiovanni Terence Booth Antonio Alveario Christian Roberto

It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.