A schoolteacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family and him on a nightmare road trip.... (Full plot summary below)
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A schoolteacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family and him on a nightmare road trip.
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| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerIt's Gillies' performance that raises Coming Home in the Dark from fascinating to utterly chilling, complimenting Matt Henley's cold, angular cinematography and John Gibson's score, all reed instruments and long, clean draws over strings, like an icy wind blowing slow through dead grass and bones. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe parts of Coming Home in the Dark about confronting guilt aren’t what make the movie so harrowing. Instead, what matters is that Ashcroft and his cast — and especially Gillies as the menacing and charismatic Mandrake — excel at drawing out the moment-to-moment tension of a crime in progress. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzComing Home in the Dark settles into the memory as a mesmerizing missed opportunity at worst, a promise of future classics at best. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyWhile the whole thing is ruthlessly well done, it also sometimes seems to lean into a kind of moral relativism. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001It looked pretty good at first, but the plot ceases to be compelling when the director doesn't try to do something to pull it out of the soporific narrative style that abounds in most of its runtime. It's no use having a dark and oppressive atmosphere if you don't do anything interesting with it. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) Another revenge film: Ashcroft is in his debut, he's still in time to change profession. |
