dark house ( 2014 film )
victor salva' s horror film involves a young man with clairvoyant powers who inherits a mysterious country house .
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 .
looking for movie tickets? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing dark house near you .
dark voice :
now draw the house. little round window above the door. good ...
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 .
a sampling of recent movies that received one star or less from washington post film critics .
no religious artifacts and / or texts were damaged or destroyed during the making of this film .
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 .
tags alex mckenna anthony rey perez dark house ethan s. smith haunted lacey anzelc lesley - anne down luke kleintank tobin bell victor salva zack ward
the generic title is not even the most unimaginative element of this overstuffed, cliche - ridden horror film. twitter
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 .
culture crypt looks at a few fantasia film festival features shaping up to be hot topics among horror fans in 2018 .
the bodies are either that of axemen or cute dark haired men with axes buried in them .
“dark house” is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). heads are split, hearts are harvested, and a fetus is terrorized .
the only real issue with the film is the second act drags a bit. if the time could have been taken to tweek and trim it just a bit, the film would have been much tighter. hopefully this film ends up being a success for salva since it seems as if he has been trying forever to get his final entry into the jeepers creepers series off the ground .
culture crypt is the most reliable website for genre movie reviews and the best in popular culture, specializing in independent horror film entertainment .
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 ?
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 .
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 .
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) .
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 .
review: zak bagans’ demon house (a scary, unbelievable documenta ...
an earlier version of a headline with this review misstated the surname of the film’s director. as the review correctly notes, he is victor salva, not salvo .
“the housemaid” is an elegantly eerie thriller with the grand gothic style of “dark shadows” before barnabas collins became the star of the show .
the old dark house’s singularity is (or should be) part of its appeal. a few years ago i showed it to students at the huston school of film in galway, fulling expecting them to hate it. only one had even heard of it, never mind seen the thing, but they laughed in all the right places and seemed properly unnerved by its creepier moments. enjoy the film in full here. interestingly, having fallen into copyright hell, it is not officially owned by anybody. so, this post is legal and everything .
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 acting is above average; all the principals do a good job. undoubtedly, tobin bell can do no wrong, he stands out in his role and does his best with the character, but for this film it’s too little too late. there isn’t an inordinate amount of gore in the film but there are a few key scenes with some interesting bloodshed .
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 .
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 .
michael o' sullivan has covered the arts for the washington post since 1993, contributing reviews and features on film, fine art, theater and other forms of entertainment to style and weekend. follow
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 .
is there a better horror film than the old dark house? yes, there probably is. ranking films in such fashion is, of course, a mug’s game. also, you might reasonably argue that james whale’s extraordinary 1932 entertainment isn’t really a horror movie at all. there is nothing of the supernatural about it. the picture leans towards camp mania as much as it does towards the ghost story. there’s really nothing much like it in the canon .
the film works best during the first and third acts. the characters are introduced in an interesting fashion and we don’t have to wait too long to get into the weirdness. the final act gives us a satisfying conclusion and the final twist was really imaginative. the cast is believable and it’s always a pleasure to see guys like ward or bell pop up. the film is light on gore but a few moments do arise and may surprise you. the axe wielding maniacs hop along, crouched low to the ground, and hurl their axes. pretty creepy design and my favorite idea in the film .
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 .
you might argue that, in film history, the old dark house doesn’t lead anywhere. it has precedents in comic horrors such as the cat and the canary, but us spookery went somewhere less challenging after the shocks of tod browning and edward g ulmer. the wolfman and dracula ended up becoming part of a franchise family that has echoes in the current marvel universe. the coupling of sexual unpleasantness with horror wasn’t much welcome in hollwood once the hays code came in .
“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 .
the film goes on, dredging up even more cliches about biblical, shape - shifting demons, paranormal progeny and the numerological significance of the number 23. that number also is featured prominently in salva’s “jeepers creepers” films .
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 .
“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 .
“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 .
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 .
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 .
a paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so - called
highways
transporting souls in the afterlife .
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 .
by next sunny golden morning, eve and ryo rush back to the house, and are stunned by the carnage in the yard .
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 .
the movie falls just a pinch short from being great since there are several moments which drag on for far too long. salva grabs a few ideas from past genre films and mashes them together in a film which is almost always entertaining and might just give you a few goosebumps .
the friends are huddled near the cellar door (coincidentally at the end of the hallway, with front door of house at other end) .
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 .
“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 .
), 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 .
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 .
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 .
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 )
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... see 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 .
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 .
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 .
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 ?
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 .
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 .
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? written by claudio carvalho, rio de janeiro, brazil
the film does, however, draw a distinction — one of degree — between the comic horror we can see downstairs and something more wretched lurking upstairs. in a masterstroke of unheimlich, whale casts a woman, elspeth dudgeon, as the 102 - year old sir roderick femm, who knows something awful about another, unseen member of the family .
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... .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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. (one wonders why the makers even bothered to replace the original name, “haunted. ”) grabbing off - the - rack ideas — the creepy - crumbly mansion in the woods, the “deliverance” - style locals, the troubled young man with the weird psychic power — the director, victor salva, stuffs them into a plot of resounding silliness .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
throw in some ominous biblical prophecies, a discourse on the cosmic significance of the number 23 (a theme previously explored in the 2007 jim carrey film the number 23), and some nasty twists involving several supporting characters who turn out to be not quite who they seem, and it soon becomes obvious that the screenplay co - written by salva and charles agron has bitten off far more than it can comfortably chew .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
at one point, nick and company are run off the road by one of the “ deliverance ” - style locals, played by screenwriter agron. when nick proposes that they spend the night in a house so inhospitable it makes “the amityville horror” look like “downton abbey, ” eve inadvertently asks a telling question: “how am i the only one that thinks this is a bad idea? ”
chris, the surveyor man and nicky find the cellar, with its heavy, old door. they must pull it in jerks to open it. with the first pull - - all of a sudden, axemen are strung down from the trees in the forest / frontyard. pull - - the axemen' s feet suddenly touch ground. pull - - axes thud the ground. ryo is still outside at the porch, oblivious, bat in hand. every time the cellar door is pulled a little more open, the axemen army makes an unnerving step forward to the house. with one more great pull, the cellar door is finally thrown half open, and the axemen start their run. ryo finally notices, and narrowly gets away into the house, yelling
axemen everywhere !
laughton is one of several dissolute young people — all affected by the first world war, we feel — who, on an appallingly rainy night, end up sheltering at the house of the horrible femme family. the first person they meet is karloff as a towering, grunting butler named morgan. “even welsh oughtn’t to sound like that, ” one of the party says upon hearing his efforts at speech .
in one instance, once everyone is lost in the forest, trapped in an old house, and surrounded by murderous men brandishing tree - chopping blades, naturally no one’s cell phone works. except when one of the characters needs a bit of background exposition about the unfolding drama. then he is suddenly able to google a few convenient references for plot - advancing purposes, even though making a phone call is still a no - go .
eight months later – nick meets with judge maxwell bing, who appears to be communicating with someone through a grate in the wall before nick arrives. bing goes over the details of molly’s will and nick learns that he inherited an old mansion. nick shows a photo of the mansion to ryan and to eve, who is now pregnant with nick’s unborn child. nick tells them that it is the same house he had drawn all throughout childhood, but never knew actually existed .
the men meet seth, the house’s mysterious resident. seth tries to warn the men away from the property while referring to sam as samael, but ultimately allows nick inside. as seth gives nick more cryptic warnings, a group of long - haired axmen in trenchcoats surround the men waiting outside. ryan calls for nick and the four men then flee through the forest with the axmen in pursuit. a thrown ax hits sam and seth then puts his own ax blade into sam’s skull .
nicky opens files and recognizes a photo of a house complete with little round window above the door, that he has been drawing for his whole life, starting from when he was a child, and through his waning dreams as an architect. he decides to find it to answer his questions. from the folder given to him by bing, he has the deed to it and he wants to visit it to find out what happened to people in it, and perhaps find a link to his unknown father .
informed by the family lawyer (max gail of barney miller fame) that he’s inherited an old house in the country that he’s somehow managed to be able to draw since childhood without ever actually seeing it, nick sets off with his best friend, ryan (anthony ray perez), and his very pregnant girlfriend, eve (alex mckenna), to investigate its whereabouts. not dissuaded by some hayseed types who inform them that it was washed away in a torrential flood years earlier, the trio soon discover it, although not without nearly running down some friendly land surveyors along the way .
lilith reveals herself as a demon to eve, but seth arrives to kill lilith before she can harm eve or the baby. nick confronts chris and learns that chris is part of the same league of demons to which nick’s father belonged, as are lucky and the townspeople. as his father’s half - human and half - demon offspring, nick’s destiny is to release his father’s trapped soul from the house using the blood of 23 beating hearts. seth and the axmen are actually the opposing force of angels in a battle of good versus evil. the townspeople arrive and engage in a bloody fight with the axmen
later nicky visits the attorney mayor bing who hands him the contents of his mother’s will in the form of a stack of papers wrapped in a folder. oddly, there is no other present for the reading. behind his desk, the attorney, bing tells him there' s no one else in the room as his mother indicated in the will that only nicky alone was to see the will’s contents. nicky looks at stack of papers wrapped in folder. just then, bing appears behind him and shows him the way out. as he exits out, mayor waits until nicky is out of earshot and then turns to vent and tells him nicky will find the house .
the central character is nick (luke kleintank), who on his 23rd birthday visits his mother (lesley - anne down), who’s been in a mental institution since he was a child. nick’s ability to foresee how a person will die is signified by his vision of her dying in a fire, a prophecy that almost immediately becomes reality when the loony bin goes up in flames .
cast: luke kleintank, anthony rey perez, alex mckenna, lesley - anne down, tobin bell, zack ward, lacey anzelc, ethan s. smith, max gail
about which the less said the better, so i will merely remark that the aforementioned young man (luke kleintank), his heavily pregnant girlfriend (alex mckenna) and a few interchangeable sidekicks head into those woods and a showdown both biblical and bonkers. voices leak from heating ducts, bodies hang from a tree, and a three - legged dog makes a pointless appearance. none of which is as unintentionally amusing as the army of ax - wielding henchmen who advance in unison in a sideways crouch, like a chorus line of cave men from a mel brooks musical .
for mr. salva, this is a long way down from “jeepers creepers, ” his respectable little 2001 frightener elevated by genuinely spooky moments and some semblance of logic. here, instead of terror, we have vapid leads and supporting players who pause to have sex while surrounded by homicidal demons. sadly, the only thing audiences are likely to find horrific is the acting. or the possibility that any of these people might make another movie .
opens on friday in manhattan and los angeles. directed by victor salva 1 hour 43 minutes
html public
- / / w3c / / dtd xhtml 1. 0 transitional / / en
urltoken
new york times (1 (ejournal / emagazine) [ worldcat. org ]
your web browser is not enabled for javascript. some features of worldcat will not be available .
your list has reached the maximum number of items. please create a new list with a new name; move some items to a new or existing list; or delete some items .
note: citations are based on reference standards. however, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. the specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied .
the e - mail address (es) field is required. please enter recipient e - mail address (es) .
the e - mail address (es) you entered is (are) not in a valid format. please re - enter recipient e - mail address (es) .
i thought you might be interested in this item at urltoken title: new york times (1 publisher: new york: new york times. isbn / issn: 0362 - 4331 oclc: 746941922
please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours .
you may have already requested this item. please select ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway .
worldcat is the world' s largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. learn more ››
don' t have an account? you can easily create a free account .
some parts of this page won' t work property. please reload or try later .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you crew reveal their most soul - crushing jobs in our freewheeling interview .
want to share imdb' s rating on your own site? use the html below .
when radio talk show psychiatrist, dr. sonny blake, moves back to her hometown, she takes notice of her neighborhood paper boy' s unusual behavior .
an attorney decides to take a trip with his father to their isolated family cabin to talk things out but their ensuing family argument is suddenly interrupted by two escaped convicts .
as children, rheanna and annette are happy. however, after an evening of ghost stories and games with their friend tara, what started as innocent fun soon turns into a nightmare. rheanna, ... see full summary »
two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert .
a woman returns home to her estranged family after a near - fatal accident, but begins to suspect something is not right .
set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team' s bus is attacked by the creeper, the winged, flesh - eating terror, on the last day of his 23 - day feeding frenzy .
jake is given a monkey' s paw that grants 3 wishes. after the first 2 wishes leave his friend cobb undead, cobb pushes jake to make a final wish .
an heyoka incarnates into a small, rural community in iowa and turns the town upside down .
luke kleintank and patricia belcher appeared together on the tv show
bones .
25 of 39 people found this review helpful. was this review helpful to you? yes no | report this
chase williamson teams up with lauren ashley carter and matt mercer in horror thriller, artik .
invisible woman, mr. fantastic, the thing, & human torch by artgerm
10 year anniversary: a look back at horrornews. net, the tech, and where we are !
new book of illustrated “scary stories to tell in the light” launching on kickstarter june 11th. * fully funded * as of 6 / 20 / 18
it’s nick di santo’s (luke kleintank) twenty third birthday and he’s making a special trip to see his mother who he hasn’t seen in years. she was committed years ago to spend her time in a mental institution. nick feels it’s time to learn something about his father but she is too far gone to offer him any answers which may make sense .
later that night he meets eve (alex mckenna) and the two quickly fall in love. nick has a gift (or curse) and can vividly see how someone will die if they have a violent death just by touching them. he’s afraid to touch the ones he loves because he doesn’t want to know. after his mother dies in a mysterious fire at the hospital, he inherits an old mansion out in the middle of nowhere .
save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time i comment .
starring: luke kleintank, alex mckenna, anthony rey perez, zack ward, lacey anzelc, ethan s. smith, lesley - anne down and tobin bell
i am a horror journalist, producer, ravenous horror fiend, aficionado of the classic universal monsters, hammer horror, werewolves, and all things horror .
real annabelle doll to be moved tonight. watch it live! ...
privacy & cookies: this site uses cookies. by continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. to find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: cookie policy
more tickets = more points = more movies on us! rack up vip + points for every ticket you buy to score streaming movies and discounts on tickets and movie gear .
get your swag on with discounted movies to stream at home, exclusive movie gear, access to advanced screenings and discounts galore .
collect bonus rewards from our many partners, including amc, stubs, cinemark connections, regal crown club when you link accounts .
we know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime .
sign up for a fanalert and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area .
also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies: tickets, special offers, screenings + more .
own all of the previous' mission: impossible' movies to watch at home for just $ 3. 99 each with ticket purchase. buy tickets
receive a free * exclusive' jurassic world: fallen kingdom' poster with ticket purchase (* shipping & handling not included). buy tickets
choose 1 of 2 free * posters with ticket purchase (* shipping & handling not included). buy tickets
receive a free * exclusive' ant - man and the wasp' poster with ticket purchase (* shipping & handling not included). buy tickets
guarantee the perfect movie night with tickets from fandango. find theater showtimes, watch trailers, read reviews and buy movie tickets in advance .
studio: new video group director: victor salva writer: charles agron, victor salva producer: charles agron, don e. fauntleroy, victor salva stars: luke kleintank, anthony rey perez, alex mckenna, zack ward, lacey anzelc, ethan s. smith, max gail, lesley - anne down, tobin bell
born with an ability to see how people will die, nick investigates a haunted family home that holds the truth about his mysterious power .
on his 23rd birthday, nick di santo is summoned to the mental hospital where his estranged mother molly is committed. nick touches his mother and has a vision of her dying violently in a fire. molly tells her son that she promised the “things in the wall” that she would tell nick the truth about his father, but nick leaves before hearing her out .
nick goes to a bar with his best friend ryan. there, nick meets a girl named eve and later takes her home. it is also revealed that nick can see a vision of how a person will die by touching him / her, provided that person is destined to die violently. on a news broadcast later that night, nick learns of a fire at the asylum that takes the life of his mother .
as strange events continue occurring throughout the night, a mob of axmen surrounds the group. nick and the others come to realize that the axmen become animated whenever they try to open a mysterious door to the basement .
after fleeing from the axmen, nick and ryan find sam’s body in the forest, but they see that his flesh was hiding a demon underneath. ryan recalls seth referring to sam as samael. using his phone to look up the reference, ryan discovers that samael is a demon’s name and so is lilith, who is said to go after unborn children .
the next morning, ryan and eve confront nick, who has accepted his true heritage. nick tears out ryan’s heart. realizing that nick intends to kill her and the baby as the final two sacrifices, eve flees in a panic. eve blacks out, but later awakens in a hospital to learn that she gave birth to a baby boy and that it was seth who saved her .
although he relies a little heavily on watery saucer eyes to convey his tortured good guy persona, luke kleintank and the rest of the cast are more than game for delivering solid performances that are actually better than some of the material they have to work with. director victor salva and his co - writer charles agron were on their way towards tapping into classic horror inspirations for a seemingly unique spin on familiar territory. and they still manage to create a fair share of tense atmosphere and entertaining set pieces. but the final direction loses its focus before buckling under the weight of characters, concepts, and side plots that do more to weigh down the core story than they do to enhance it.
dark house is a 2014 horror film directed by victor salva and starring tobin bell , lesley-anne down and luke kleintank . the film follows a man named nick di santo , who discovers that not only is his long-lost father alive , but that he may be able to explain the source of his son 's telekinetic abilities . 
dark house is a 2014 horror film directed by victor salva and starring tobin bell, lesley-anne down and luke kleintank. the film follows a man named nick di santo, who discovers that not only is his long-lost father alive, but that he may be able to explain the source of his son's telekinetic abilities.
dark house is a 2014 horror film directed by victor salva and starring tobin bell, lesley-anne down and luke kleintank. the film follows a man named nick di santo, who discovers that not only is his long-lost father alive, but that he may be able to explain the source of his son's telekinetic abilities.