William Dietrich Movies

When a former N.S.A. Special Ops Agent-turned private security professional discovers a link between the murder of his sister and her young son and a highly secretive religious cult known as the Shadow of the Cross, he sets out to find the person responsible and uncover the motivation behind the brutal killing in a dark thriller from director Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Joe Lassiter (Samuel L. Jackson) is a man in search of answers, and when a series of clues lead him to an Italian fertility clinic where his sister and twelve other women were artificially impregnated, the discovery that the building has been consumed by fire raises more questions than it answers. It appears that every one of the women impregnated at the clinic, along with their sons, have been murdered by the Shadow of the Cross - every one except one, that is. Famous thriller novelist Candice Banks is the sole surviving member of the group, and a very public figure who Joe had recently relocated in order to help her elude a particularly persistent stalker. When Joe discovers that a fanatical Victorian doctor had impregnated the women with the DNA from an item plundered from the Vatican catacombs and said to contain the blood of Jesus Christ in hopes of bringing about the second coming, his race to protect that child from the Shadow of the Cross, whose members believe the child to be the anti-Christ, finds him facing off against a team of determined killers who believe it their mission from God to see that the child is exterminated. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide