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The Dark

2005 · 87 min

A cold, misty folk-horror descent that unsettles quietly, trading jump scares for creeping dread and raw parental grief.

Directed by
John Fawcett
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Tagline
One of the living for one of the dead.
Overview
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.

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Directed by
John Fawcett
Genres
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • parenthood
  • death
  • guilt
  • mystery
Places
  • countryside
  • sea
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror, thriller, mystery
Directed by
John Fawcett
Written by
Stephen Massicotte
Starring
Maria Bello, Sean Bean, Abigail Stone, Richard Elfyn, Maurice Roëves, Sophie Stuckey, Casper Harvey, Eluned Jones
Music
Edmund Butt
Cinematography
Christian Sebaldt
Runtime
87 min
Country
Germany, United Kingdom
Languages
Welsh, English

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