Adam Nevill’s novel connects a documentary project with events across three countries.
Kyle Freeman takes on a project about the Temple of the Last Days in Adam Nevill’s novel Last Days. The fictional cult destroyed itself in a night of violence decades earlier, but investigating its history brings Freeman into contact with something still active. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
The filmmaker is short of money when he begins. His research takes the story through London, France and Arizona, where unexplained events and a disturbing presence complicate the effort to reconstruct the past. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
The premise makes documentation a source of exposure. Freeman is trying to establish what happened to the group, yet his project places him within the consequences of what it left behind. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
Pan Macmillan’s Tor Nightfire paperback listing runs to 544 pages. Its synopsis presents the cult and supernatural activity as the novel’s invented history; the documentary project belongs to the fiction, rather than supplying evidence of an actual organization or haunting. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.