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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 33 m
Summary A teacher is forced to confront a secret from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family on a nightmare road-trip.
Directed By: James Ashcroft
Written By: Eli Kent, Owen Marshall, James Ashcroft
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 33 m
Coming Home in the Dark
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
4.8
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Summary A teacher is forced to confront a secret from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family on a nightmare road-trip.
Directed By: James Ashcroft
Written By: Eli Kent, Owen Marshall, James Ashcroft
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
64
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
64
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It's Gillies' performance that raises Coming Home in the Dark from fascinating to utterly chilling, complimenting Matt Henley's cold, angular cinematography and John Gibson's score, all reed instruments and long, clean draws over strings, like an icy wind blowing slow through dead grass and bones.
The parts of Coming Home in the Dark about confronting guilt aren’t what make the movie so harrowing. Instead, what matters is that Ashcroft and his cast — and especially Gillies as the menacing and charismatic Mandrake — excel at drawing out the moment-to-moment tension of a crime in progress.
Coming Home in the Dark settles into the memory as a mesmerizing missed opportunity at worst, a promise of future classics at best.
While the whole thing is ruthlessly well done, it also sometimes seems to lean into a kind of moral relativism.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
4.8
30% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
4.8
30% Positive
3 Ratings
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40% Mixed
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30% Negative
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Production Company
Light in the Dark Productions
Release Date Oct 1, 2021
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating TV-MA
Awards
Molins Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
BloodGuts UK Horror Awards
• 2 Nominations
New Zealand Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
