Red Sands

Red Sands

Year: 2009

Runtime: 89 mins

Language: English

Director: Alex Turner

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Spirits take no prisoners. A squad of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East finds a restless lull between operations. Out of sheer boredom they destroy an ancient desert statue, inadvertently awakening a malevolent, supernatural entity that begins to hunt them.

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