The Dark Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Entertaining, but predictable and pretty dull at times

An entertaining film on the whole, which has a slow pace at times (the first 30-minutes or so somewhat drag), but has hints of The Ring & Silent Hill, and an interesting (if predictable and straight-forward) story. The movie gets better it progresses, and has an interesting but predictable & somewhat confusing twist ending. The film is short at 85-minutes, and there was the potential for something better (which was never really met), but the small cast do a good job (including Sean Bean, Monica Bello, and Maurice Roëves), and in the end the film delivered pretty much what I expected going in. The Dark is not as good as the director’s most well-known movie Ginger Snaps, but it passes 90-minutes. Not a film I would recommend watching at the cinema though, I would wait for the DVD instead.

Feeling Sheepish

I’m sure the sheep were Welsh, but no one else in this Wales-set film seemed to be. Surely not even the Welsh could buy this terrible mangling of one of their legends.

All credit to the cinematography as there were some beautiful wind-swept cliff-top pieces and some really creepy underwater shots, but the early promise was lost in a complex and at times simply daft plot.

Even the emotional trauma of losing a daughter couldn’t fully explain the main protagonists eager acceptance of the frankly bizarre situation they found themselves in.

I think this is definitely a case of a really scary novel not translating very well to film, and worse still, of a films trailer being more frightening than the actual result.