{"id":30258,"date":"2019-01-28T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30258"},"modified":"2019-01-28T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T11:00:32","slug":"into-the-dark-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/into-the-dark-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Dark: Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For Blumhouse\u2019s polarizing anthology series in February, the writers of \u201cInto the Dark\u201d tackle Valentine\u2019s Day. One of the nasty aspects of having to write the review for \u201cDown\u201d is it\u2019s nearly impossible to write about it without spoiling the episode\u2019s big hook. And the primary motivation for watching \u201cDown\u201d is the way the premise devolves in to a huge twist mid-way. Like all of the episodes of \u201cInto the Dark\u201d so far, the episode is fifteen minutes too long, but once it completely reaches fever pitch, it\u2019s quite an exhilarating horror thriller based around the holiday.<\/p>\n

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On Valentine\u2019s evening, a young executive woman is preparing to go home for the weekend. As she\u2019s entering the elevator, she holds the door open for co-worker who is also rushing home for the holiday. As they begin chatting one another up, the elevator breaks down. With no one in the building and the security guard seemingly abandoning their posts, the young couple is stuck in the elevator. Soon enough, though, things get desperate and what begins as a fateful romance, transforms in to a blood soaked fight for survival. Director Daniel Stamm, of \u201cThe Last Exorcism\u201d and \u201cFear the Walking Dead,\u201d manages to create an atmosphere of sheer claustrophobia and desperation, especially as the narrative progresses.<\/p>\n

The setting gets tighter and tighter the more that the narrative unfolds revealing so much more than what we think we\u2019re seeing, allowing for the elevator to become its own character. Natalie Martinez and Matt Lauria take up the acting duties for what is essentially a two character pieces centered on one setting and they do a bang up job. They have some stellar chemistry with one another, portraying two people that don\u2019t know one another, who gradually have to learn to trust each other as it becomes somewhat apparent that they\u2019re in the elevator without a way out. One thing you have to admit about \u201cInto the Dark\u201d is that they stick to their holiday themes big time, and \u201cDown\u201d is a fractured Valentine\u2019s tale that implements elements of the occasion well.<\/p>\n

The concept of the episode is quite brilliant, and once it completely comes full circle mid-way, it\u2019ll guarantee to suck you in. Once the episode reveals its true colors, the tension and vicious violence kept me watching and anxiously wondering how these characters would ultimately come out of this situation. For the sake of the experience it\u2019s, once again, tough to review the entire episode without spoiling it. But all things considered \u201cDown,\u201d like the previous episodes of \u201cInto the Dark\u201d is a very good, albeit flawed, experience that\u2019ll get the fans talking, guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Premiering February 1st<\/sup> Exclusively on Hulu.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Blumhouse\u2019s polarizing anthology series in February, the writers of \u201cInto the Dark\u201d tackle Valentine\u2019s Day. One of the nasty aspects of having to write the review for \u201cDown\u201d is it\u2019s nearly impossible to write about it without spoiling the episode\u2019s big hook. And the primary motivation for watching \u201cDown\u201d is the way the premise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[477,703,874,1012,1087,1148],"class_list":["post-30258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-romance","tag-survival","tag-thriller","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30260,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions\/30260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}