The Dark

Name: The Dark
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Released: October 26, 2018
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Chris Farquhar, Dan Beirne, Dylan Trowbridge, Karl Markovics, Margarete Tiesel

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Dark Sky Films | Release Date: October 26, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Chris Farquhar, Dan Beirne, Dylan Trowbridge, Karl Markovics, Margarete Tiesel, Nadia Alexander, Sarah Murphy-Dyson, Scott Beaudin, Toby Nichols

Summary: An undead teenage girl befriends a blind boy that she meets in a forest she haunts and hunts in. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel, but it will come with a body count.

Director: Justin P. Lange

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Noel Murray

Oct 25, 2018

The Dark clicks (which is often), it’s a moving and poetic tale about how neglect and abuse can turn people into freaky beasts, and how love can bring them back. Read full review

Nick Rocco Scalia

Oct 25, 2018

When a movie does so much right – it’s unique and visually arresting and, at times, legitimately moving and surprisingly scary – it’s hard not to wish for something more complete, something that fully and entirely connects. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Oct 25, 2018

Mina and Alex seem less like teenagers and more like case studies with traumas rather than personalities. The horror genre can be a pipeline into the dark corners of the psyche, but the impact of The Dark is more clinical than cathartic. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Oct 25, 2018

In trying to succeed as something both metaphorical and very literal-minded, the movie ends up being neither one nor the other — not psychologically deep enough to succeed as pure drama, and too earnest to offer the usual rewards of a genre film. Read full review

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InTrippyEntropy

Jun 20, 2019

There's a legend about Devil's Den, a forest haunted by the ghost of a young woman that kills anyone that enters. A bad man on the run from the law, presumably a pedophile, brings a kidnapped boy to hide there. The ghost girl, befriends the boy and they start an uneasy friendship. ThisThere's a legend about Devil's Den, a forest haunted by the ghost of a young woman that kills anyone that enters. A bad man on the run from the law, presumably a pedophile, brings a kidnapped boy to hide there. The ghost girl, befriends the boy and they start an uneasy friendship. This camaraderie between the two teenagers is the heart of the film. But the logic of it and the progression isn't done very well so it loses some of its power. It's a twist on zombies. It's a Twist on Justice served. And there's killing. Lots of Senseless killings. Not just bad guys either. The makeup is half-baked but the acting is solid. They keep you waiting for over an hour to figure out what she is. And also, what the boy is running from. The pacing is sort of jumbled. It wasn't great, but I couldn't turn away… Expand

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tipar

Oct 26, 2018

I found it too slow to be liked. Too childish to provoke some Horror. If you are into Horror Dramas more aimed at teens not for its themes but for its characters you may enjoy it.

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