Billionaire mogul Magnus Martel (Terence Stamp) stands on the threshold of perhaps the most significant discovery in the history of all mankind: the secret of the Loculus. His cult of truth-seeking scientists globetrot the world in search of the enigmatic box, feted by theologians and historians through the ages and said to hold the nails from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ himself.

Flayed bodies, ravenous rotweilers, flaming corpses, severed tongues, torturous traitors, arcane myths and the legendary savage Knights Templar - these are but some of the gruesome obstacles that fall in the perilous path of Martel's estranged son Jake (James D'Arcy) as he is lured into this sinister sequence of fateful events. On a quest for vengeance following his father's untimely death, he and alchemist Mira must search for and destroy the awesome power of the Loculus before it falls into the hands of the villainous Grand Master (Udo Kier), a demonic figure steeped in malevolent mystery - the deathly nemesis of all who have held the key to Loculus within their grasp.

As the world unwittingly draws ever closer to the brink of a new and terrifying age, the stage is set for a showdown between the forces of 21st Century science and religion and an ancient evil that has cursed history. If the Grand Master claims the Loculus for himself, he will finally be able to give birth to something so unimaginable, humanity would barely be able to comprehend it.

STUART URBAN - WRITER, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER

At the age of 13, Stuart Urban had his first film shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The Virus of War was a thirty-minute 16mm movie about a fascist outpost on some British Islands in the Atlantic. The cast and crew were all children and the film was seen on television globally. It is now preserved in the National Film Archive.

After graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first class degree in Modern History, Urban entered the film industry in 1982 and has worked in various capacities as writer, director and producer. His first full-length BBC drama, An Ungentlemanly Act, dramatising the first 36 hours of the Falklands War starring Ian Richardson and Bob Peck, won a BAFTA Award as the Best Single Drama and numerous other international awards.

From 1994-95, Urban directed Our Friends In The North, the most successful drama for 15 years on BBC2, which won him another BAFTA for Best Drama Serial. It was recently voted one of the Top 25 Television Programmes Of All Time in the influential British Film Institute Poll 2000.

In 1995, he wrote the $6 million HBO/ BBC movie Deadly Voyage that won the Silver Nymph Award for Best Screenplay at Monte Carlo. In 1997, through his company Cyclops Vision, he wrote, produced and directed the cult comedy Preaching To The Perverted, a widely sold and popular title on the international film festival circuit. In 1999, he produced, directed and co-wrote with Harold Pinter Against the War, an acclaimed and hard-hitting indictment of the NATO bombing of Serbia for the BBC and Cyclops Vision.

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