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After a child dies in her care, a guilt-stricken teenager (Jessica Barden) feels threatened by a mysterious force.
Leave your thoughts about In the Dark Half.
| Irish TimesTara BradyA little more invention and Siddons might have created a cult smash. Instead, we're left using words like "promise" and "potential". |
| Time OutDave CalhounSiddons maintains a threatening atmosphere and crafts suggestively with silence. |
| Total FilmJosh WinningPart kitchen sink-er, part pseudo-ghost story, this has a firm grasp on the genres it casually straddles, with creepy sound design fostering a dreamy, portentous mood. |
| Empire MagazineKim NewmanWell played and creepy, if a little plodding in plot and pacing, it promises better things ahead from director Alastair Siddons. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsTextbook supernatural shenanigans, confusingly edited. |
| User ReviewMatty SA BBC film available on Netflix streaming. Sad, creepy, scary, and surprising, it takes place in what appears to be shoddy, British, low-income housing. This sets the mood of despair early on. Sorrow abounds, but it has a great and somewhat hopeful ending. If you want to try to figure it out yourself, pay close attention not to WHAT one of the main characters says, but HOW she says it. |
| User ReviewNathaniel MAtmospheric but confused, this strange hybrid of mysticism, suburbia and grief has an unusual winter colour pallet, some fantastic sound design and a couple of good performances. It reminded me in places of Wake Wood, Admissions, Lucky McKee's The Woods and Session 9, which probably makes it sound more derivative than it actually is. The promise of good things to come from the director. |
| User ReviewWilman AWhat were those random victorian era movie scenes cut into this for? Shitting editing? So confusing. |
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