The Raising

In Godwin Honors Hall, the walls are draped in black. The college is in mourning for Nicole Werner, a blonde and beautiful prom queen who died in a car accident last semester. She was a straight-A student, a committed Christian, and a prized member of the Virgin Sisters, the most powerful sorority on campus. Nicole's boyfriend Craig was at the wheel that night. Although he has no memory of the crash, he is haunted by guilt, and now unable to forget his part in the drama. For, as winter sets in and the nights darken, Nicole's death dominates college life. Candlelit vigils and fetishistic rituals become nightly events. A seminar on the folklore of dying and the undead is hugely oversubscribed. Soon, students start seeing Nicole's spirit in the crumbling college halls. Craig's roommate, Perry, doesn't believe in ghosts. A no-nonsense type who always thought Nicole was as manipulative as she was charming, he refuses to be swept up by the hysteria - and then he experiences an eerie night-time visitation of his own. Perry knows that something very strange is going on. But when he and his fellow sceptics begin to unravel the truth, powerful forces move to silence them...