Wraiths of Roanoke

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name = Wraiths of Roanoke


imdb_id = 0875696
producer = Rafael Jordan
Dana Dubovsky
Mark L. Lester
director = Matt Codd
writer = Rafael Jordan
starring = Adrian Paul
Frida Show
Rhett Giles
Michael Teh
George Calil
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distributor = American World Pictures
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language = English

"Wraiths of Roanoke" (also known as "The Lost Colony") is a 2007 Sci Fi Pictures original film about 16th-century English settlers in America who are besieged by wraiths. Ostensibly the film is based on the disappearance of the second Roanoke Colony. The film stars Adrian Paul, Frida Show, Rhett Giles, Michael Teh, and George Calil.

The movie premiered on the Sci Fi Channel on October 13, 2007. It was rated TV-14.

Plot

The film opens with a 16th-century island colony in Virginia. English settlers arrive by ship at Roanoke Island with an Indian escort. When the settlers arrive, they find the colony abandoned by the previous occupants, except for one body. They find a corpse hanging from a rope inside a small building, with the door bolted from the inside. The English governor sent with the settlers dismisses this as an intimidation tactic by the Spanish. The governor is forced to return to England to gather supplies, and names settler Ananias Dare (Adrian Paul) interim governor, backed with the strong arm of George Howe (Rhett Giles). That evening, Ananias' pregnant wife Eleanor Dare (Frida Show) sleeping when suddenly she has a gruesome dream that her nightgown is covered in blood, with her baby taken from her womb. She runs out into the middle of the town square, and finds a ghost with her baby. She wakes up deeply shaken, and warns Ananias that it might be better for them to return to England. He dismisses this, but settlers begin dying in the woods one by one. Eleanor mysteriously gives birth prematurely, but the baby girl, whom they name Virginia, is thankfully born safely. Crops won't grow in the island's soil, and there are no animals in the forest. More settlers begin dying, and it soon becomes apparent that there is a supernatural presence on the island.

Eleanor continues to get disturbing dreams, and eventually the dreams reveal that the island was the location of a brutal execution of an innocent woman and a few other men by Vikings. Long before, a ship of Viking warriors suffered misfortune and blamed it on one of the women and a few of the men traveling on the ship with them. They took them to the island and tortured them to death, and because of this the souls of the evil Viking men and the other men and the single woman are still trapped on the island in a state between life and death. Ananias Dare must work with a local Indian chief and his own townspeople to find a way to send the evil wraiths out of this world and into hell where they belong.

External links

* [http://www.lostcolony-themovie.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=5165 Fangoria: Filmmaker talks Sci Fi’s WRAITHS]
* [http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/76/23376.php MovieWeb: Rafael Jordan Takes on the Wraiths of Roanoke]
* [http://www.adrianpaul.net/movies/lostcolony.html "The Lost Colony" at Adrian Paul's official website]
*MySpace|rafaeljordan607|Rafael Jordan
** [http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=27408310&albumId=757373 Jordan's "Wraiths of Roanoke" gallery]