
In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Niamh's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Niamh has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manife... (Full plot summary below)
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In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Niamh's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Niamh has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest.
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| The PlaylistGabe ToroIt's unfortunate that commercial considerations seem to play into the third act, adding a more concrete representation of a very abstract idea. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonElegantly atmospheric indie horror drama plumbs typically unseen depths of children's coping mechanisms in the face of terrible real-life experience. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlDark Touch, like much of the best horror, works the fears that connect to real life. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThat space between reality and mirage is where Ms. de Van’s strength, and this movie’s true horror, lies. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayDark Touch is meant to touch a nerve, not merely spook. It’s about deeper fears, and realer monsters. |
| The VergeAdi RobertsonIt's hampered by its need for easy resolutions and horror set pieces, neither quite embracing nor escaping its genre roots. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezThe film is beholden to a strange internal logic that gives primacy not to its protagonist's suffering, but to its maker's thirst for fun. |
| Grolsch Film WorksAnton BitelLike Carrie without the religion, or Village of the Damned without the aliens, Dark Touch is uncompromising, utterly chilling, and actually about something - the misuse of power, whether a parent's or a child's. It is also unmissable. |
| User Reviewatash55Dark Touch shows us that real horror is in us humans. It does what great horror films do, connect reality with fear. Dark, gritty movie. It shows what horrors a child abuse victim goes through, how their innocence is lost. Man is the cruelest animal. One of the best horror movies of 2013. |
| User ReviewMovieGoer14Easily one of the best horror movies 2013. It is effective and unlike most horror movies, it connects to real life. Although being extremely dark and very disturbing, at a certain level, it is entertaining although horrifying. It has "Orphan' movie feeling to it, although being better than 2009's horror hit "Orphan". Dark Touch is a well-made film, very twisted, disturbing and horrifying. |