The Shade

The Shade is a 2011 Gothic-Super Hero film, based in the comics & books of the same name by DC comics, the story sets in the life of Bruce Alexander, a Latin American born European teenager who somehow between a bloodline in his family adquires underworld & supernatural powers.

Plot
The movie opens with a war within to kingdoms, one of the kingdoms is liderated by a young boy (who's name is not revealed until later), eventually during the fight, he is harmed and eventually dies, her mother, The Queen Autumn (Vibeke Stene) takes his power out to gave it to a heir.

Now a days, a young boy named Bruce Alexander (Logan Lerman), is walking down the street to go to school, he is described as a calm guy, with interest in dark and gloomy things, then two young boys appear, Miranda (Emily Osment) & Rob (Leon Thomas III), both of them are Bruce best friends. During Literature class, they are reading a book about mytology, Bruce thinks the history is kind of "less gloomy & dark" and goes out of the classroom.

In that evening, Bruce father is going out on a business trip, Bruce angry, goes on the room and has a nap, during his dream he sees a young woman, she claims to be a Queen from a desolate & devastated land, she offers Bruce a deal, he thinks the Queen is kind of creepy and tries to walk off, but he again finds her standing infront, Bruce angrily starts to walk deeper and deeper in the forest, just to find the "Dark Rainbow" Kingdom, The Queen explains him that, this used to be her land, Bruce feeling bad for the Queen, tells her he will think about the treat and eventually wakes up. The butler of the house, Johan (Anthony Hopkins) tells Bruce, that Miranda is waiting for him outside, as he goes out he finds himself with his half-brother Austin (Josh Hutcherson) (it is said that both of them don't get along in a good way).

During his way to the library, he tells Miranda about his dream, Miranda tells him that maybe he is kind of tired or stressed about school or work, but Bruce denies it and tells Miranda in a more datiled way. When they enter the library, the meet with Amilia (Dakota Fanning) (Amilia & Miranda are told to be enemies in every school or work situation, Amilia also likes Bruce this makes Miranda to get jealous), Bruce ignores her and goes in search of a Mytology book to search more information about the Dark Rainbow Kingdom, Bruce takes the book home to read about it, when he seems to be mysteriously linked with Queen Autumn, (he notices this when he spots a photo of a "familiar" place of somewhere), Bruce then recieves the new that both his father & brother are dead, Bruce sad & angry goes back to sleep hoping to see the Queen again in his dreams, eventually after searching her, he tells her that he wants to accept the power for a good reason, Queen Atumn tells him that she allready knows what happened and that she is up to help him during his mission to find who is responsible for the dead of his family.

Bruce recives the power of the desased Prince, The Queen tells him some "rules" that the power has, but due to his arrogance & revenge feeling, he ignores it and goes to the first place to investigate, this place and it seems that his family members where actually murdered by a gang liderated by the mysterious "Diamond", Bruce enters the bar and meets with Grumpy (Aaron Paul), after a long fight, he is able to track him down and get some information about Diamond, he then ejecutates him. The scene then cutts off and places in a building where "Diamond" is, he demands to know about the low sales on drug, when he suddenly recives the news that actually Grumpy has been ejecutated, so he sends Lust (Matt Damon) & Bulla (Denise Richards) to track down Bruce (now calling himself Shade), Bruce then wakes up in his room, when he looks up, he finds Queen Autumn standing in his room, after a long conversation, the Queen reveals Bruce to be his mother, Bruce feels happy but strange at the same time about this.

The next night, Bruce finds the last two members of the gang, Sin (Ethan Hawke) & Avarice (Neve Campbell), after fighting against them, Bruce is attacked by Lust & Bulla, defeating them, interogates them about his family, Lust tells him that the answer is near that he thinks. Bruce then goes on to see Miranda and finds Rob knoced out in the floor, when he wakes him up, he tells him all about his mission but tells him it is also a long history, Rob tells him that a man with a mask attacked him and kidnaped Miranda, he also tells Bruce he leaved a note, it was a rescue note. Bruce goes to the location the note said & is attacked by Diamond, who reveals to be Bruce's brother, Austin is able to beat Bruce and hangs him, The Queen appears and tells Bruce that he should have listen to her at first, The Queen tells Bruce that light is the most dangerous thing for him, Bruce feels sorry, but tells The Queen that Miranda is kindaped and needs to help her, The Queen gives Bruce a limited protection against light and with this he is able to rescue Miranda but it is attacked by Austin, he fights against him, but he is in disavantage, they fight until Bruce is almost beaten, Bruce tells Austin to kill him, he tells him he feels betrayed and Austin eventually explains all about the conspiracy he had, after this Bruce with his last effort is able to wake up & stabbs Austin with a metal stick in the floor, he falls down and eventually dies.

At the last scene it is said that Bruce remained with the power and swear to protect the city from the evil forces. The post-credit scene shows a little man that is walking to a throne where an unamed character is sit, he tells him it was about time for him to rise again.

Cast
Logan Lerman - Bruce Alexander III/The Shade

Emily Osment - Miranda Antonov

Leon Thomas III - Rob Harris

John Malkovich - Bruce Alexander II

Anthony Hopkins. Johan

Josh Hutcherson - Austin "Diamond" Alexander

Dakota Fanning - Amilia

Aaron Paul - Grumpy

Ethan Hawke - Sin

Denise Richards - Bulla

Neve Campbell - Avarice

Vibeke Stene - Queen Autumn

Soundtrack
The soundtrack is a mixture between Goth music & Heavy Metal music
 * 1) Christian Death - Deathwish
 * 2) Bauhaus - Double Dare
 * 3) Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
 * 4) Tristania - Equilibrium
 * 5) Bathory - Equimanthorn
 * 6) Naer Mataron - Wolf of Ions
 * 7) The Damned - Anti-Pope
 * 8) Type O Negative - All Hallows Eve
 * 9) Emilie Autumn - Misery Loves Company
 * 10) Shadows Fall - In Effigy
 * 11) Cradle of Filth - From Cradle to Enslave