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'The Dark'
(Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, et al / DVD / R / 2019 / Dark Sky Films)

Overview: 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 also come with a body count.

DVD Verdict: To be quite frank, this story of horror in the woods, located on the outskirts of a small town, lovingly named named Devil's Den, is rather a good one.

The myth goes that there is this mysterious tract of woods where many have entered but none have ever returned from. Indeed, the local rumor is that the spirit of a young girl who was horrifically murdered there haunts and hunts in this very same dense forest, brutally slaying anyone who dares to step into her terrain.

Why? We don't quite know at the beginning, which is fine, but come the end, well, her anger is, if not totally understood, is kinda sorta both justified and "accepted," that's for darn sure.

When a Priest with a dark past (and something to hide) crosses her path whilst taking the time on his road trip to sleep a night in an old, decrepit, and falling down haunted house (!), a series of events are set in motion that may lead to a peculiar kind of redemption for two tragically tortured souls.

Part Gothic fairy tale and part chilling horror, director Justin P. Lange's debut 'The Dark' defiantly features a wicked orchestrated balance of rich imagery together with a brutal and bloody story of unlikely kindred spirits who must defend themselves against the villainous powers of the normal world.

Lead actress Nadia Alexander (together with her haunted, undead harrowing makeup) is a stand out star here as the terrifying Mina. Someone with an ax to grind, and never one for backing down from her self-obsessed, self-created mission of death, she is all that embodies why woods are scary at night (with or without her in them!).

Part horror, part psychological thriller, 'The Dark' reveals itself using go-to horror conventions as scares along the way, sure, but never seems to over play them. Indeed, it's like the director purposely decided to just borrow their images, choosing instead to remold them and deliver them with his own unique twists each time.

In closing, and not to give anything big away, 'The Dark' never sets out to scare the pants off you. It isn't built that way and anyway, for if it did, the character of Mina would quickly become very annoying.

No, what it does is entwine you deeply, step by step, further into its woody story line, allowing you to view everything you perceive to be the truth around you ... until, and beautifully out of nowhere, the dark, quite literally, has gotten under your skin and turning around, you see no way out! Watch it today ... just NOT alone! This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

www.DarkSkyFilms.com

'The Dark' - Official Trailer





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