The Dark (2005)

The Dark (2005)
by John Fawcett

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Actor: Abigail Stone, Maria Bello, Maurice Ro?ves, Sean Bean, Sophie Stuckey
Director: John Fawcett
Brand: Sony
Producer: Jeremy Bolt
Producer: Paul Tamasy
Producer: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producer: Robert How
Producer: Robert Kulzer
Writer: Simon Maginn
Writer: Stephen Massicotte
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Welsh (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Seaside Getaway...
Summary: 4 Stars

I love John Fawcett's GINGER SNAPS. It's a visceral romp w/ fantastic characters and a twisty storyline. In THE DARK, Fawcett goes for more of a haunting sense of building dread and ultimate doom. Maria Bello (Payback, A History Of Violence) excells in her role as Adele, the mother who will make any sacrifice in order to retrieve her daughter from the dark, rotting hallways of Annwyn. Sean Bean (Silent Hill, Lord Of The Rings) is his familiar, consternated self as the husband / father, James. THE DARK does have some atmospheric elements similar to other creepers like THE RING, but has enough originality to make it all work. Well worth owning... P.S.- I enjoyed both endings. One is bleak and unforgiving, while the other is more hopeful and idealistic...

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Summary of The Dark (2005)

Believing her daughter is being held prisoner in the land of the dead a distraught mother attempts to enter the gates of hell in a desperate attempt to rescue her child. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/27/2009 Starring: Mario Bello Sean Bean Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R

Dark is as mysterious as it is horrific, making it refreshingly eerie compared to the current wave of lackluster horror films. Dark's protagonist, Ada (Maria Bello), a heroically sly mother who aims to bring her allegedly dead daughter back to life, further clarifies director John Fawcett's affinity for femme fatales, best exemplified in his juicy feminist werewolf film, Ginger Snaps. This time mining the indestructible psychic mother-daughter bond for material, Fawcett tells the story of Ada, who brings daughter, Sarah, to Wales for a visit with husband and father, James (Sean Bean), an artist relocated to a remote seaside haunt. After Sarah becomes obsessed by a monolith carved with cryptic text about Annwyn, the pagan Welsh equivalent of purgatory, Ada predicts her daughter's fall off a cliff in a nearby pasture. Search parties fail to locate the girl's body, so Ada heads to the local library for research, discovering that the house they live in is inhabited by the ghost of Sarah's doppelganger, Ebrill, who seeks rebirth after a similar drowning accident. Ada makes the ultimate sacrifice to rescue her daughter while Sarah's father stands idly by. Dark's plot directly relates to the classic psychological thriller, Don't Look Now, but lacks the same subtle visual beauty, instead opting for a modern primitive look. But with Welsh mythology mixed in, not to mention subplots involving a psychotic shepherd into trepanation, and a local sheep population afflicted with a suicide-inducing virus, Dark contains appealing medieval imagery, and its contemporary take on pagan self-sacrifice is sick and cultish rather than sexy and natural, as in The Wicker Man. Dark can at least be applauded for entering some intriguingly creepy territory. --Trinie Dalton

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