
Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs inv... (Full plot summary below)
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Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth.
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| Consequence of SoundRandall ColburnWatching Dark Places is like watching a bunch of Malibu prep schoolers perform Buried Child. They're hitting all the notes, sure, but they haven't the first idea what it all means. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf"Dark Places" ends up testing patience, but the first two acts are triumphantly foreboding, finding a proper balance of depression and escalating curiosity. |
| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamThe mystery unspools slowly, with so many different twists and turns it's impossible to figure it out ahead of time. That's fine. By the time you get there, however, you probably won't care anymore. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA moodily grim, choppily edited potboiler with a howlingly ludicrous ending...The sheer luridness of 'Dark Places' may hold your attention, but by the close the goofy plot twists and laughable motivations will probably induce a few snickers. |
| CinemaBlend.comMike ReyesA puzzling thriller with intensely fascinating characters, Dark Places is a film that will restore your faith in procedural mysteries. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIt’s never pushed far enough. Instead, Dark Places just becomes an overstuffed, low-simmer potboiler with too many improbable detours and overly convenient twists. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangWithout the spiky irony of Flynn's first-person writing (the enjoyable Jim Thompson-esque noirisms that pepper the novel, like "I have a meanness in me, real as an organ" occur only rarely) Paquet-Brenner shears the text of any richness, to have it unfold instead in a relentlessly grim manner, less intriguing and evocative than straight-up dour. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereShapeless, lurid, ludicrous... unpleasant and uninteresting characters. What's not to like? |
| L.A. WeeklyAmy Nicholson[Paquet-Brenner] squanders Dark Places' icky setup for a rote investigation to find the real killer, a revelation greeted not with a "What?!" but with a "Whatever." |
| Film School RejectsRob HunterA lazy, flat and poorly written thriller that fails at grabbing viewers by the throat or by the heart. |