The Dark

    The Dark
    2018

    Synopsis

    A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.

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    Cast

    • Nadia AlexanderMina
    • Toby NicholsAlex
    • Karl MarkovicsJosef Hofer
    • Margarethe TieselAgnes
    • Dylan TrowbridgeJason
    • Chris FarquharJeff
    • Scott BeaudinGeorge
    • Dan BeirneOfficer Stevens
    • Sarah Murphy-DysonNoreen

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Film Threat

      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.
    • 70

      Los Angeles Times

      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.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      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.
    • 40

      Variety

      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.

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