dark house
dark house is lame. what it lacks in scares it more than makes up for in incomprehensible narrative choices
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dark house is a movie starring jeffrey combs, meghan ory, and diane salinger. a troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror .
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dark house is one nutty horror movie, but what' s crazier still is how well it works - until it doesn' t .
dark house could really benefit from an extreme home makeover, because as it stands, this is one architectural mess of a horror film .
dark house practically drowns under the weight of mismatched horror tropes, including a preponderance of loud - noise jolt - scares and idiotic character behavior .
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salva certainly gets points for creative repurposing. much of what transpires in “dark house” has been seen before, just not all in the same movie .
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the bodies are either that of axemen or cute dark haired men with axes buried in them .
salva certainly gets points for creative repurposing. much of what transpires in
dark house
has been seen before, just not all in the same movie .
mere minutes into
dark house ,
it becomes depressingly clear that the deficit of imagination displayed by the title will not be made up for by the content .
there' s plenty of blood in the supernatural horror flick
dark house ,
but what really defines director victor salva' s latest effort is flop sweat .
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dark house is a thrilling and horrifying road trip, full of twists and brutal surprises; a suspenseful thriller about a young man and a chilling old house that has survived decades, awaiting the return of its prodigal son... a house that can escalate nick' s gift to see death before it happens, but holds within its walls the origins of a dark family legacy so horrible it may have already reached out to nick' s unborn child. (c) cinedigm
i think my love for this series was summed up in a phrase of one of the characters portrayed by author christopher fowler :
everyone wants the things that remind them of childhood. i just re - imagine them with the materials of the present .
full dark house captures my favorite aspects of my
childhood
mysteries - sherlock holmes and agatha christie, especially come to mind, dressed up in very contemporary dark humor and time manipulation. although not the first i' ve read, full dark house is the fir
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just works as a haunted house movie for the modern era, flaws and all .
they' ve returned... or perhaps the house has been following then .
seth commands the axemen to wait for his signal to go back to the house .
“the housemaid” is an elegantly eerie thriller with the grand gothic style of “dark shadows” before barnabas collins became the star of the show .
we will spoil the movie ,
dark house
, which was first released as
haunted house
in 2014. we have 3 big twists, a couple of red herrings, some pretty good acting from luke kleintank and the always creepy tobias bell (of saw fame). the movie runs at 103 minutes long .
a very mild haunted house opus whose low - budget special effects prove more risible than scary .
lilith stays with eve up on ledge with car. boys go to explore look for house .
the house should have been pulverized. they find the house almost totally intact... apparently it slammed into a huge tree, which saved it, furniture, silverware, and all .
the front entrance' s double doors slowly creak open as they head near the house. they all stop in their tracks. a voice booms out of house telling them to go away .
neil labute' s
in a dark dark house
begs the immediate question: why bother with the redundant title? any residence where mr. labute comes knockin' is not likely to sit on the sunny side of the street, and his 2007 three - hander proves no exception in its solidly erected but emotionally vacant west coast premiere from broken hand productions at the matrix theatre .
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magic tree house: dinosaurs before dark kids is an adaptation of the first of mary pope osborne' s award - winning fantasy adventure books from the magic tree house book series, which has sold more than 100 million copies and is available in more than 100 countries around the world. jack and annie’s tree house transports them back in time to the age of the dinosaurs, where the siblings courageously learn that things are not always what they seem .
seth slowly walks back into the house, and after a long pause, allows nicky alone in .
the noise of axemen running and impending doom freezes. there are no axemen inside the house yet .
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by the time “dark house” reaches its midpoint, nick has collected a pregnant girlfriend, a concerned buddy, a trio of helpful land surveyors, and the deed to that mysterious old house mentioned earlier. en route to uncovering the secrets of said house, nick and company encounter a crimp - haired tobin bell, a gaggle of ax - tossing golems, and end up in a parallel reality where all roads lead back to the mansion no matter what .
on the other side of the frontyard come a motley crew of young cute strapping men with all sorts of weapons, gingham shirts, and dark hair .
magic tree house: dinosaurs before dark kids is a great first pick for new directors or if you have students new to the performing arts. there are dinosaur roles of all shapes and sizes and great opportunities to involve your students in the creation of their costumes .
i think my love for this series was summed up in a phrase of one of the characters portrayed by author christopher fowler :
everyone wants the things that remind them of childhood. i just re - imagine them with the materials of the present .
full dark house captures my favorite aspects of my
childhood
mysteries - sherlock holmes and agatha christie, especially come to mind, dressed up in very contemporary dark humor and time manipulation. although not the first i' ve read, full dark house is the first in fowler' s bryant and may detective series. bryant and may are two elderly detectives - one charming, one not - who head london' s
peculiar crime units
and full dark house tells the story of their first case in flashback. the book begins with the bombing of the theater which was the site of their first case and the killing of bryant. as his partner and friend tries to solve the mystery of the current day bombing, he is forced to relieve and rethink their first case. although it dragged at some points, on the whole, full dark house (a reference to the theatrical production that is its setting) is a lovely and satisfying read .
victor salva' s horror film involves a young man with clairvoyant powers who inherits a mysterious country house .
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june 14, 1978 .
dark house has some decent production values considering it is a very low budget picture – the high definition cut looks great and the special effects area very well done (forgoing any cg effects for traditional props). and while there are some silly moments, there are also some good kill scenes (even if we get a preview via nick) in dark house and it has some of that victor salva (director of jeepers creepers) flare but there are no scares here and it really struggles with finding an identity for too long .
“saw” icon tobin bell enters odd danny trejo territory with his too brief appearance in “dark house. ” despite top billing and a co - producer credit to boot, bell appears in what is still an important role, albeit one that is only onscreen for three relatively short scenes .
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uh oh... something dark and dusty is moving in the fire place. nicky, by himself, candle in hand, walks along a hallway, tapping his foot, listening. he hears different thud. he finds himself near the tree at the corner of the house .
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“dark house” spins a web with so many intriguingly bizarre threads that it is almost impossible not to smile while marveling at the inventiveness of its amalgamated ideas and wondering how in the world all of these things will tie together. with so much for the imagination to chew on, it feels like “dark house” is leading towards something cleverer than what it ultimately delivers. so when the hump between lead - in and climax drags the momentum through a tar pit, it affords more time to recognize that most of the toys in the sandbox end up buried at the bottom, unused and unnecessary .
the house at the center of the horror film “ dark house ” is not just poorly illuminated — aren’t they always? — but also ill conceived. according to the wildly improbable screenplay, the ramshackle southern plantation home around which this tale of demonic real estate revolves was swept off its foundation 23 years ago by a flood that deposited it, intact, several miles away. we’re talking brick front steps and all .
“dark house” cruises effectively for a considerable amount of time on the strength of a strange mystery that steadily increases its intoxicating weirdness by piling on elements of haunted house suspense, angel versus demon mythology, and ax - wielding maniac mayhem. then once all of the cards have been dealt, the hand plays out as a round of flat action that tastes disappointingly stale in light of how many potent ingredients were in the mix .
two other diner patrons join in the conversation. one introduces the house rumor: the house was called
wormwood
. it was despised by residents of the town, who were seriously spooked by it. then, more 20 years ago, a massive flood washed away the town with the house, but the house landed somewhere - - intact. the other, black haired white male diner snorts and doubts the rumor' s authenticity while furtively keeping his eyes on his companion .
we find nicky on a road trip with ryo and eve on a quest to find the house from his childhood art .
meanwhile, surveyors and other people alike stare dumbfounded straight, realizing the creepy house is in front of them, again .
they all walk towards the house as eve complains about having to wait for the axemen to come back and kill them .
there' s a very special man trapped in house that understands what your life was like. talk to him .
a young woman, claire, who witnessed a massacre as a child goes back to the house in which it happens as part of a troupe of actors auditioning for roles within a haunted house attraction. as both new arrivals and old cast soon begin disappearing one - by - one, claire is left wondering if the house really hunted or is there a killer amongst them .
a paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so - called
highways
transporting souls in the afterlife .
seth (tobin bell with long, stringy dirty hair, and a rick owens outfit) comes out of the creepy house .
now all axemen pop up in formation in front of the house, barricading the entrance with their bodies. they hunch down .
eve (on the phone) :
... never going to find the house. i destroyed the deed .
what would you do if a tree house in your neighborhood could transport you anywhere you wanted to go? while exploring one afternoon, siblings jack and annie discover a tree house full of books. jack looks through a book about dinosaurs and wishes ...
by next sunny golden morning, eve and ryo rush back to the house, and are stunned by the carnage in the yard .
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playing like a virtual compendium of horror film cliches, dark house represents a regression for director victor salva, who helmed the far superior jeepers creepers. this tale about a young man possessing mysterious gifts who discovers that he’s inherited a decrepit old house throws a bit of everything into its ungainly mix, including the presence of horror film icon tobin bell (the saw films). but the overstuffed film is definitely less than the sum of its admittedly occasionally scary parts .
it is a mild letdown since “dark house” initially appears to be creating a fresh and fun original story out of tired tropes and well - worn plot devices. after it becomes clear that the mystery merely builds to an average good battling evil theme, the movie rushes to make pieces fit and whatever doesn’t is left by the wayside .
now, dark house does a good job of disguising what is going on but it is filled with cliché horror bad decisions such as staying in the house after they had already been chased by homeless ax guys or opening a door that is clearly not meant to be open or having sex just after one of their buddies was gutted right in front of them. this doesn’t even get into the whole demons talking through air conditioner vents to small children to influence their crayon drawings .
as i said earlier, victor salva is an accomplished filmmaker. dark house is shot amazingly well and looks gorgeous. the film has potential with some creepy moments here and there but whatever tension builds up is eventually diluted by asinine character actions (lets have sex in the woods when we’re fighting for our lives with evil axmen running around) .
ryo goes with lilith to go back to nicky' s abandoned car to salvage some warm clothes. it is dark, and... romantic (?)? ? they glance at each other, and then start kissing passionately, stripping off clothes, and having sex. they don' t notice the axemen suddenly appear around the house .
a young girl, noa, suspects her new nanny isn' t from this world. noa fights to reveal the nanny' s identity, which is more twisted than she imagined in this dark fantasy tale .
the friends are huddled near the cellar door (coincidentally at the end of the hallway, with front door of house at other end) .
edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the london police department' s peculiar crimes unit. in full dark house, christopher fowler tells the story of both their first and last case - - and how along the way the unlikel
short synopsis: a real estate agent finds himself trapped in a haunted house with a mysterious squatter and must learn to conquer his fear to escape .
lucky later appears alongside a stalled car on the road, causing chris to swerve and to crash into a tree at the bottom of the embankment. everyone then discovers that they have mysteriously returned to the old house. with sundown approaching, the group decides to spend the night in the house .
“dark house” stands flapping in the wind with asides regarding numerology, foretold prophecies, and nick’s “dead zone” ability that kicked off the whole story ending up in effect as inessential distractions. and when the script is backed into a corner with something it doesn’t know how to handle, it lobs a hail mary pass that more often than not sticks out like a throbbing red thumb .
i really wanted to like dark house more than i did. it had an interesting look and feel to it with potential for success, but the writing doesn’t make it over the hump of mediocrity. with an ending that left more questions than answers, it ultimately falls flat and doesn’t work. genre die - hards may find this worth a watch but mainstreamers probably won’t .
), lilith (with dark short hair, pale skin, lacey anzelc), and lastly, sam (red haired pudgy guy, reminiscent of jonah hill, played by ethan s. smith), who they almost hit .
nicky, by himself, is confronted by lucky, the cute black haired diner from before, who tells him to stop running. it does not matter where nicky runs. the house will follow him. in back of him, the house looms up, and the windows alight with a warm, cheery light .
just before halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities .
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nick di santo has the gift to see how any person that he touches will dies. he visits his mother lilian that is in an asylum since when he was eight years old and learns that his father is alive. nick lives with his best friend ryan and one day he meets eve in a bar and he finds that he can touch her without any vision. eve moves to nick' s apartment and soon she is pregnant. out of the blue, nick inherits an old house and he shows to ryan and eve that he used to draw that house since he was a child. they travel to the countryside but they do not find the manor. they decide to return home and they meet chris mcculluch, lilith and sam that are measuring the area. they show the location of the house where nick meets the strange seth. they are hunted down by creepy creatures with axes but they flee. they decide to leave the place but the road leads them back to the mysterious house. what is the secret of the dark house and the creepy creatures ?
the fourth time is the charm for the fangoria frightfest! the acclaimed horror festival has been a complete bust up until it' s fourth film, dark house. this is a highly imaginative film, with one hell of a twist in the end, and as all of my regular readers know, i love a good twist at the end! dark house is walston' s newest haunted attraction, featuring state of the art technology, that promises to rattle even the most fearless of people. aside from the new technology, the big draw for dark house is that it is the actual house where a ghastly mass murder took place years earlier. besides it' s cool effects, what i really liked about this film was the strong background story that goes along with it. yes, it does eventually become a gorefest, but it comes after you' ve been watching a really interesting story for quite some time. as for the gore, it' s not what you usually see either, as it' s done in a b - movie style. this was really interesting to me, as the attraction features state of the art technology, but the actual murder scenes look like something out of a cheesy 70s film. the stars of the film are mostly newcomers, and as expect some were great, while others need more school, but it' s a fairly large cast, so those actors who aren' t very good, didn' t have much screen time. dark house will make you jump, make you laugh, and shock you with it' s surprise ending. there' s a simple plot, that' s easy to follow, and an interesting back story for those of us who like to think a little bit. it is really everything i look for in a horror film and more .
synopsis: when nick di santo learns that his father is not only alive but can possibly reveal the origin of his son’s dark gift, he sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion he thought only existed in his childhood imagination .
four years later – eve raises her son as a single mother. meanwhile, the little boy is instructed to draw the old house by a voice in the walls .
dark house is a low budget horror film that tries too hard to be in the same league as the hollywood productions. the question is, does it work? well no. the cast here do a below average job at acting, and the script is pretty weak. which is a shame because the idea for this film was pretty interesting, unfortunately it' s budget limitations are in the way along with a bad script. re - animator actor, jeffrey combs plays in this film, and he' s often amusing, but he lacks the flair that made him great in re - animator. dark house has too many loose ends to be a good story, and definitely a below average film that doesn' t quite succeed on what it promises to deliver. if the cast was better chosen, and i' m not talking about combs, maybe this film would have been a better one, unfortunately the film feels flat, the scares aren' t real. the film ends up feeling quite boring, and it feels like it drags on. dark house really had the potential in being a great film, unfortunately it' s just another low - budget horror blunder. there were some good ideas at work here, unfortunately the film never succeeds at delivering something good and unique. the film falls apart, and it becomes derivative and uninteresting. i think it' s a shame because there were some fairly interesting ideas here, unfortunately due to a bad script, and poor directing, the film never takes off and becomes a misfire. dark house is a bad film that i can' t recommend because it' s simply a film that doesn' t work to entertain its audience .
nicky unwillingly leaves house with questions in his mind and finally notices the axemen. terror! nick + gang all start running, axemen start lurching with clubfoot... .
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after exploring and reminiscing and matching memories or flashback imaginations to inside of house, nicky touches a huge drapery against wall and drapery suddenly shakes briefly as if something is behind it .
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he along with his friend ryan (anthony rey perez) and the now pregnant eve head out on a road trip to see the house and maybe nick can learn something about his father. once they arrive in the small town, they learn the house was washed away in a flood years ago. but there is a legend which says the house was hit by the flood and moved deep into woods. the three of them are determined to find it but what lies in wait for them when they get there will change their lives forever .
well, hm. this book was recced to me for humor, which turns out not to be quite the case - - more irony and dark wit. too dark for my current reading needs, which took it down a star subjectively, but well written, which added a star objectively. quirky and eccentric without being cozy. written in omniscient, with parallel tales taking place in two times - - detectives bryant and may' s first case, occurring during the london blitz, and their last, in the early 21st century. the omniscient voice allo
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suddenly ryo (friend) outside tells nicky that his time is up - - it' s time to go. but seth angrily pins him to wall and tells him for years he has tried to destroy the house. the house was washed away by the
god
flood, and the tree growing through wall has been used for lynching... horrible stuff .
seth very adamant in telling them to go away. then nicky chimes with the fact that he has the deed to the house, and wants to know what happened to its previous occupants .
saucy lady tells other diners to stop spreading stories but nicky insists on knowing more so the black haired diner points to map on wall signaling that should be the approximate area house washed away to .
first in the bryant and may peculiar crimes unit historical mystery series and revolving around a pair of detectives who, thankfully, balance each other, and which flips between 1940 and 2000 in london. in 2004, full dark house won the british fantasy award for best novel and was nominated for the barry award for best british crime novel. my take it’s a peculiar start with the death of one of the main characters. in between, there are some flamboyant theatrical deaths…shades of phantom of the opera
nick takes ryan and eve with him as he goes in search of the mansion to learn the truth about his father and his ability. nick discovers that the house was located in a town called river’s end, but the town washed away in a flood. a local named lucky tells nick that legend says the house known as “wormwood” could not be destroyed and only washed away to another location .
dark house formerly known as haunted is a mishmash of horror tropes, some of which work and some don’t. there’s a lot going on in the film and much to sort out. the mystery surrounding nick’s father is unclear. he’s an evil force that seems to live in the basement of the house yet controls his evil doers by talking to them from inside walls via heating vents in other places. then we have seth’s axmen with a different agenda, maybe good – maybe evil. why are they like a hunchback chorus line slinging axes all over the place? is this a demon vs. angel standoff? ultimately, there are more questions than answers in the finale leaving viewers scratching their heads .
review: i’ve never been much of a victor salva fan. i enjoyed the first jeepers creepers but couldn’t make my way through the sequel. his film rosewood lane was horrible but i was shocked to find his latest outing dark house to be a solidly entertaining and creepy little film. he takes a cast of relative unknowns, with the exception of genre veterans tobin bell and zack ward, then delivers a tightly wound tale with several twists, colorful characters, and an axe wielding mob of angry ghosts .
they stop at roadside diner, and meet a middle aged, saucy diner attender lady (she' s in tv series bones as marjorie, and turns out nicky also played a recurring role as an intern anthropologist in bones !). nicky recognizes a large dusty gray / scale photo of the house in question in the center of a densely decorated wall. he asks the attender lady how to find the house .
featuring heavy doses of gore supplanted by ear - piercing, sudden loud noises to ratchet up the tension, the visually cluttered dark house - - its unimaginative title representing a slight improvement over its even more unimaginative original title, haunted - - fails to weave its numerous plot strands into a coherent whole. and while bell infuses his stringy - haired character with his characteristic creepy flair, it’s not hard to imagine that the actor, who also co - produced, is merely biding his time until the saw franchise is inevitably resurrected .
at the beginning of the movie -
14 years ago
- when the girls are riding their bikes down the street towards the house, clearly modern, late - model cars are parked along the street .
full dark house (police procedural - london - cont / wwii) – g + fowler, christopher – 1st of series bantam books, 2003 - hardcover when a present day bombing of the peculiar crimes unit kills elderly detective arthur bryant, his partner, john may looks to their first case for clues as to why. * * * what an interesting use of contrasts. fowler brings to life 1940s london during the blitz offset by the millennium eye; the chaos of the streets during the blitz and the insularity of a theatre; traditional police
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haunted is a movie starring luke kleintank, alex mckenna, and anthony rey. when nick di santo learns that his father is not only alive but can possibly reveal the origin of his son' s dark gift, he sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion he thought only existed in his childhood imagination .
before even watching this film for review, i knew it had a built in controversy. viewers may or may not know about director victor salva’s past criminal history. while i do not condone salva’s criminal history in any way, shape or form, i prefer to keep his personal life separate from his film work. while i may not like the man, there’s no denying his talent as a filmmaker. one of my favorite films of the 2000’s was his exceptional jeepers creepers. his latest offering is dark house, but unfortunately it can’t hold a candle to his 2001 hit. the film’s writers seemed to be grasping at straws on what type of film they want it to be. is it a haunted house thriller, a demonic possession flick, angels vs. demons, or what ?
the first of christopher fowler' s bryant & may mysteries (& the first of his books i' ve read), full dark house is one of those wonderful mysteries that lays out all of the clues for you straight from the beginning of the book. it' s amusing (& irritating) to look back over the story, putting the pieces all together, realizing that if you' d only been a bit smarter you could have figured the whole thing out yourself. sadly, i' m not that smart. the person i pegged as the murderer... wa
the tree' s branches cut into house so they can grow. this, mind you, is the tree from which people were lynched. nicky reaches out to touch the tree, and bam! another hand from within grabs his .
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there were two quotes on the back of the paperback copy of full dark house i picked up that caught my attention :
a madcap mystery ...
and
how many locked - room puzzles can the duo unlock ...
my kind of book; or so i thought. not only is there no locked room (the detectives took another character' s word for it on that one) it wasn' t terribly madcap either. nor was the plot original; yes, folks, it' s another
reinterpretation
of that famous gaston leroux novel, the phantom of the opera. i do lik
the surveyors invite themselves into nicky' s quest for his house, and they drive up to the approximate area, a raised road, of which both sides severely slope downwards and are densely filled with fall trees. it is a beautiful golden afternoon .
chris, the surveyor :
shut up guys !
while eve has a mini tantrum, and refuses, with good reason ,
there' s no way i' m staying here
. nick agrees with chris to stay in the house .
siblings, jack and annie, discover a tree house full of books while exploring one afternoon. jack looks through a book about dinosaurs and wishes he could see a real one. suddenly, the wind begins to blow and the tree house starts to spin wildly. when it finally stops, jack and annie open their eyes to find they have been transported back to the time of the dinosaurs. jack and annie have a harrowing adventure, befriending some dinosaurs along the way as they try to make their way back home .
it turns out the house is still standing in the middle of nowhere, having been washed intact several miles into the isolated woods. the trio soon discovers the house is occupied by a grizzled, long - haired lunatic named seth (tobin bell - saw franchise) with unknown intentions. alarmingly, seth commands an army of axmen who shuffle crouched down side to side in unison like nightmarish gorillas. in trying to find answers about his father, nick and friends find themselves in a supernatural nightmare they might not make it out of…alive .
provided that person is destined to die in horribly violent fashion, nick has the ability to touch someone and see how s / he will meet the reaper. the origin behind his blessing / curse involves a father he never knew, an insane mother who speaks to a voice in the walls, and a dark mansion in the woods that literally fell off the map when a flood wiped out a small town .
this film proved to me that he still has a passion for the genre and he deserves to tell that final story. he has found the perfect writing partner in charles agron. this is his first foray and it seems like the two of them really worked well with one another. you couldn’t ask for a better picture from the blu - ray though it lacks special features. it does include a short behind the scenes feature which is something. dark house may not be perfect but it’s far better than most dtv features as of late. this is a return to form for victor salva and i hope to see this streak continue. * * * 1 \ 2 (out of 5 )
naturally, the house is guarded by a menacing caretaker, seth (bell), who attempts to warn them away. it isn’t long before violent mayhem ensues, with the young interlopers pursued by seth’s gang of ax - wielding troglodytes whose awkward gait makes them resemble escaped gorillas .
dark house is a confused movie. it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. nick has a troubling supernatural ability. he can sense if someone is going to die violently. if they just fade to black, nothing happens. but an axe to the brain, a heart being ripped from the chest or a throat being slashed, he sees it. not surprisingly, he’s not very fun at parties. however, he does shack up with a random chick at a bar and flash forward a few years and nick has a pregnant wife. but never knowing his father, nick is obsessed with discovering who he was and if he might have any information as to why he has these strange powers .
back on the road, nick, ryan, and eve come across a trio of land surveyors named chris mcculloch, lilith, and sam. the surveyors help nick search for wormwood. while lilith waits behind with eve, the four men go into the woods to find the house .
adella harding / elko daily free press friends in service helping’s scream break volunteers are preparing for the fundraiser april 1, 2, 8 and 9. the menacing characters in the haunted house reception room, from left, are ayla anderson, michael bail and kim byers, and nathaniel bail is in the coffin .
there were two quotes on the back of the paperback copy of full dark house i picked up that caught my attention :
a madcap mystery ...
and
how many locked - room puzzles can the duo unlock ...
my kind of book; or so i thought. not only is there no locked room (the detectives took another character' s word for it on that one) it wasn' t terribly madcap either. nor was the plot original; yes, folks, it' s another
reinterpretation
of that famous gaston leroux novel, the phantom of the opera. i do like the characters of arthur bryant and john may and found fowler' s style very readable and his prose well crafted but not enough to push my rating above two stars .
haunted aka dark house, is a good surprise for horror fans and for a horror movie containing this specific theme, a theme that has been repeated a hundred times before, and most of the times, the result was awful. story is familiar to anyone, so i won' t mention it. this movie has many elements you' ve seen before. but it manages to combine them affectively by creating a unique atmosphere. dark house has a good plot, with very good flow, intense atmosphere, keeps your interest the whole time. there are many gloomy scenes, which helps the story' s atmosphere and gets the viewer in the mood of it. it' s not boring at all. yeah ok, it has some clichés and flaws, where all movies have, but it' s not disappointing or annoying at all. victor salva has created his best movie so far, at least in horror ones. it gives you a surprisingly good atmosphere, good plot, suspension, tense and scary moments. there' s a constant tension the whole time. the appearance of tobin bell is a huge plus, with his great acting and incredibly deep voice, on a role who easily manages to deliver, tricking and chilling the viewers the way he knows to. leslie ann down is a positive thing too, who is still gorgeous at the age of 60. i avoided to write any details about the story, cause i didn' t want to reveal anything and spoil someones interest to watch this movie. overall, this is a very good movie, and i definitely recommend it. 6 out of 10 .
christopher fowler introduces you to arthur bryant and john may, lead detectives of london' s peculiar crimes unit in this first of a great series! while the pcu specializes in using unusual methods to solve their anything but routine cases, to simply call bryant and may off - beat would be unfair. fowler uses clever plots, dark humor, and a memorable supporting cast to tell his stories. the fact that bthe main characters have been at their jobs since the early 1940s, putting both comfortably in th
a mysterious phantom haunts a creepy old theater in an apparent attempt to scare the performers and keep the latest production from starting. does that sound like a scooby doo episode, or is it just me? “i’d have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids! ” or in this case, meddling english detectives instead of talking dogs and damn dirty hippies. actually, this was a pretty dark and well done mystery with an intriguing concept and structure. arthur bryant and john may have been dete
christopher fowler is an english novelist living in london, his books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. as well as novels, he writes short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews. he lives in king' s cross, on the battlebridge basin, and chooses london as the backdrop of many of his stories because any one of the events in its two thousand year history can provide inspiration in 1998 he was the recipient of the bfs best short story of the year, for' wageslaves'. then, in 2004,' the water room' was nominated for the cwa people' s choice award,' full dark house' won the bfs august derleth novel of the year award 2004 and' american waitress' won the bfs best short story of the year 2004. the novella' breathe' won bfs best novella 2005. urltoken
full dark house (police procedural - london - cont / wwii) – g + fowler, christopher – 1st of series bantam books, 2003 - hardcover when a present day bombing of the peculiar crimes unit kills elderly detective arthur bryant, his partner, john may looks to their first case for clues as to why. * * * what an interesting use of contrasts. fowler brings to life 1940s london during the blitz offset by the millennium eye; the chaos of the streets during the blitz and the insularity of a theatre; traditional police procedure versus use of a medium; a difficult, quirky detective offset by a personable classic investigator. i felt the plot was overly complex and the story slow at times, but i was held in the story by the strong writing, humor, and the relationship between the two protagonists. i look forward to reading the next book in this series .
nick, ryan, and chris return to the women and everyone escapes in the surveyors’ van. they drive back into town, but find it strangely deserted. as if in a parallel reality, lucky can see nick and the others searching for help outside the diner. lucky then tells a voice in the walls that he will lead nick back to the house .
the first of christopher fowler' s bryant & may mysteries (& the first of his books i' ve read), full dark house is one of those wonderful mysteries that lays out all of the clues for you straight from the beginning of the book. it' s amusing (& irritating) to look back over the story, putting the pieces all together, realizing that if you' d only been a bit smarter you could have figured the whole thing out yourself. sadly, i' m not that smart. the person i pegged as the murderer... wasn' t. damn! i' m not big on recapping stories & plot lines, so i won' t bother - - i do recommend this book, though, especially for mystery lovers. i' ve already bought the entire series currently available in the u. s. , & i anticipate many more encounters with bryant & may.
dark house is a supernatural horror film directed by darin scott and stars jeffrey combs , meghan ory and diane salinger with matt cohen , shelly cole , danso gordon , ryan melander , bevin prince , meghan maureen mcdonough and scott whyte . the film was scripted by darin scott with the story created by kerry douglas dye and darin scott . the movie was produced by mark sonoda and nick allan . dark house opened theatrically for one week engagements on friday , july 30 in new york city , dallas and san francisco and was released on dvd september 28 , 2010 . 
dark house is a supernatural horror film directed by darin scott and stars jeffrey combs, meghan ory and diane salinger with matt cohen, shelly cole, danso gordon, ryan melander, bevin prince, meghan maureen mcdonough and scott whyte. the film was scripted by darin scott with the story created by kerry douglas dye and darin scott. the movie was produced by mark sonoda and nick allan. dark house opened theatrically for one week engagements on friday, july 30 in new york city, dallas and san francisco and was released on dvd september 28, 2010.
dark house is a supernatural horror film directed by darin scott and stars jeffrey combs, meghan ory and diane salinger with matt cohen, shelly cole, danso gordon, ryan melander, bevin prince, meghan maureen mcdonough and scott whyte. the film was scripted by darin scott with the story created by kerry douglas dye and darin scott. the movie was produced by mark sonoda and nick allan. dark house opened theatrically for one week engagements on friday, july 30 in new york city, dallas and san francisco and was released on dvd september 28, 2010.