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So we’ve seen a thousand
movies where unsuspecting nannies become victims to their prepubescent
mates vice versa; and after sitting through nineteen minute of an
inexplicable gore fest, I’ve decided that there are much more things to
do with the genre, and director Garcia deserves a hand for taking a
tired formula and making it feel renewed and original. Fed up with his
predicament of having to spend a life without sight and sound, things
take a true turn for the worst as the characters here are forced to
endure the magnificent if sudden transformation in to being that takes
what he wants no matter who he hurts.
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The cast of
performers are all relatively good, in particular Tara Shane
whose reliance on screams, double takes and vulnerability
make her a great final girl that I hope to see more from.
Garcia films the set pieces in shades of black and white
with the sterile environment he’s forced on. When his desire
to break through his illness manifests itself the search for
the right inadvertent donors come forward and make things so
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The
old parlor tricks work here with a classic “Halloween” back drop
that makes the neighborhood closed in enough to allow main character
Alvarez to perform his tricks without even trying. But then again
there’s the ambiguity where audiences are left to wonder if the big
twist was there all before the big finish or if he knew more than
what his blindness and inability to speak did. Hell, I enjoyed it a
lot and I’m glad Garcia didn’t aim for a larger length. Stories
likes are made for quick spooky fixes.
I’m still trying
to figure if the core characters just end a wish fulfilling black vortex
of if our young man who is deaf and blind finally wish for his senses
and suddenly regained them due to powers beyond his control and at the
expense of lives. The young boy’s intent is almost never made clear to
the audience and that boggles it down in nearly annoying pit falls in
the film that can never come to the conclusion that we’re watching a
horror flick or a morality story.
Though confused as where
to take our character’s final resolution along the writers almost
incapable of wrapping the story, “In the Dark” is a surreal and creepy
little diddy about magic the comeuppance of bullies sooner or later.
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