MARIN IRELAND

THE EMPTY MAN (2020)
Starring James Badge Dale, Joel Courtney, Stephen Root, Marin Ireland, Owen Teague, Evan Jonigkeit, Virginia Kull, Jessica Matten, Samantha Logan and Tanya Van Graan. Directed by David Prior.

After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life - and the lives of those close to him - are in grave danger.

THE DARK AND THE WICKED
Starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr, Xander Berkeley, Lynn Andrews, Julie Oliver-Touchstone, Tom Nowicki, Ella Ballentine and Michael Zagst. Directed by Bryan Bertino.

On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

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28 HOTEL ROOMS
Starring Chris Messina and Marin Ireland. Directed by Matt Ross.

Both traveling for work, in a city in which neither lives, a man and a woman have a one-night stand. Months later, in another city, they run into each other in a hotel restaurant and sleep together a second time. Though she's married and he has a girlfriend, they decide to keep meeting. This begins an unexpected love that slowly evolves into a profound relationship and threatens to impact everything else in their lives.