The Dark (2005 film)
Summary
"One of the living for one of the dead." In mourning over the tragic drowning of their daughter Sarah, James and Adèle are visited by Ebrill, a young girl who claims she died 60 years ago - and bears a startling resemblance to Sarah.
Details
- Release Date: 2005
- Country/Language: Isle Of Man/UK/USA/Germany, English and Welsh with English subtitles
- Genres/Technical: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
- Runtime: 1 hr 33 min
- Starring: Sean Bean, Maria Bello, Sophie Stuckey
- Director: John Fawcett
- Writer: Simon Maginn (novel), Stephen Massicotte (screenplay)
- Producer/Production Co: Constantin Film, Impact Pictures, Isle of Man Film
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
The "Dreamland" (Anwynn) is fairly eerie and the faerie-folk are a common enough theme in Lovecraftian literature between Machen's faeries, and the multitude of faerie-like creatures that haunt the stories of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft....
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis
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Adelle makes the journey from New York City to Wales with her daughter, Sarah. There, Adelle attempts to patch things up with Sarah's father, James. The visit turns tragic when Sarah disappears in the ocean. But then a young girl named Ebril shows up who, eerily, seems to have died in a mass suicide half a century earlier. Ebril claims that Adelle's daughter has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
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