The Canal (2014)

Five years after buying a home, film archivist David is reviewing old news reels and discovers his house was the site of a vicious murder in the early 1900s.  He and his wife are unnerved but it’s not like they’ve had any issues in the house so life goes on.

When David’s wife invites him to a business party, he notices her client Alex is too familiar with her and begins to wonder if she’s having an affair. One night he follows her and confirms his fears to be true as she meets Alex in one of his buildings that’s under construction. David picks up a hammer and considers doing them harm. But the horror of this thought sends him running out of the building and he throws the hammer in the canal.

The next morning when he discovers his wife hasn’t come home,  David notifies the police. After an investigation and a search, they find her body in the canal. Since they know she was having an affair, Davis is ant the top of their list of suspects. David denies any knowledge of this.

He begins having nightmares and seeing the man who committed the murder in his house one hundred years ago.  So is David hallucinating? Is the murderer’s spirit haunting this home? Did David murder his wife? He’s acting weird, the nanny is afraid of him, and the police have found the hammer in the canal.

This is an Irish movie which has some creepy parts and is psychological horror.