Share. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2018 and was released on September 28, 2018, by Netflix. The film is the adoption of William Giraldi’s famous novel of the same name. After Core awakens, Vernon removes the arrow before leaving with Medora. Review by PolTreidum ★★★ Nobody was holding the dark. Related Articles. Core believes Medora may have gone to the springs, and he and Marium agree to try to find her before Vernon does. Directed by (1) Writing credits (2) Cast (39) Produced by (12) Music by (2) Cinematography by (1) Film Editing by (1) Casting By (1) Production Design by (1) Art Direction by (2) Set Decoration by (1) Costume Design by (1) Makeup Department (15) Netflix's Hold The Dark: 4 Burning Questions The Movie Never Answered; 3. [Jeffrey] Wright does what he can with a thinly-written part. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. 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Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy You're almost there! It is based upon the novel of the same name by William Giraldi and stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. Core tracks the wolves, finding the hot springs Medora mentioned, and spots a pack of wolves eating their young. Hold the Dark is the type of film you allow your brain to pluck at before fully deciding how enjoyable it is. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Wright's disturbed visage conveys his character's torn-between-two-worlds distress, with the actor using darting looks and burdened body language to beautifully articulate the war raging within. Meanwhile, Marium sneaks past an entryway trip wire, ascends the steps to the second floor and kills Cheeon, who falls from the window to the front yard. |. Read critic reviews. Cinemark Hold the Dark is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Improve this question. This movie sure couldn't! The police investigate, and native villagers claim Medora is possessed by a wolf-demon called a tournaq. It is based upon the novel of the same name by William Giraldi and stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. Coming Soon, Regal All rights reserved. As one of the biggest fans out there of “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room”—two masterfully taut thrillers—“Hold the Dark,” which premiered last night at TIFF and drops on Netflix on September 28 th, was one of my most anticipated films of the entire year. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Hold the Dark (2018) Plot. Hold the Dark is a surreal mystery about a fictional remote Alaskan village, Keelut, beset by wolves that are apparently taking children. It is bleak, harrowing, otherworldly and absolutely brilliant. |, January 29, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 More like, hold my attention! We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. It explores good versus evil, nature versus nurture and is a thorough examination of the beast within. Cheeon talks about the government's neglect of Keelut and how it has affected their village. Just confirm how you got your ticket. [12], Hold the Dark received generally positive reviews from critics. 2018 | TV-MA | 2h 5m | Action & Adventure. Medora says "It happened to me." Discovering the officers murdered and Bailey's body missing, Marium realizes Vernon is responsible. The film never coheres outside of those flashes, ultimately delivering a disappointing, confusing, but undeniably fascinating experience. Addictive Pictures, Robert Englund’s Stuck-At-Home Binge Guide: True Terrors and Fairy Tales to Watch Now, October 29, 2018 But no demon is revealed by the time the movie ends. Hold the Dark is an American thriller/adventure movie directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate her son in the Alaskan wilderness. She tells him about the influenza which spread through the village and took the lives of many, with nowhere to bury them with the ground frozen. Regal After he is shot, he is being carried to a helicopter to transport him out of the country. “Hold the Dark” is an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry. A grim, unsettling and ultimately forgettable Netflix horror flick that has a surprisingly high daytime body count for something that takes place mostly in the dark night of the Alaskan winter. Marium asks another officer to cover him while he tries to enter the house from the rear. Parents need to know that Hold the Dark is based on the critically acclaimed book by William Giraldi.Set in a remote area in Alaska, the film is extremely dark and extremely violent, and deals with overwhelming grief, supernatural occurrences, and immeasurable human cruelty. In the film Hold the Dark (2018), Medora seems to have killed her son Bailey. In the middle of the night, Core wakes and sees Medora scrubbing her skin in the bath. Hoping to intercept Vernon in the springs, Core finds Medora, and tells her he is coming. Based on William Giraldi's novel, Hold the Dark is a suspense-filled flick that starts off feeling like Mystic River, with Russell trying desperately to find a young boy, Bailey. | Fresh (59) Directed by Jeremy Saulnier, Netflix's Hold the Dark is a mystery that borders on horror. |, October 10, 2018 |, July 24, 2020 Medora tells him that there is darkness there, and tells him of a hot springs to the north of town, which is the only warm place she's ever known. Following Shan's mending of his shoulder, Vernon has a dream of himself and Medora in the hot springs. At the Slone house, he finds Medora missing and discovers Bailey's frozen, strangled body in the cellar. He visits Shan, an old friend who is seen snorting a white powder just before Vernon arrives. After Marium leaves with Core, Vernon kills the officers and the coroner and takes his son's body. There are no featured reviews for because the movie has not released yet (). “Hold the Dark” is unflinchingly violent, at times almost excessively so, and yet its starkest act of savagery occurs in the first few minutes, and is all the more haunting for its ambiguity. Hold the Dark is a step back for such a stimulating director (Saulnie). [9] It also screened at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2018. |, July 2, 2019 Summary: Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone (Riley Keough), a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. [Full Review in Spanish]. and Cheeon ceases fire for a moment. Vernon and Medora dig up Bailey's grave, and pull the coffin behind them as they trek through the snow. As Vernon strangles Medora, she pushes the mask off his face, and he releases her. Cheeon builds a coffin, and Vernon buries his son in the snow, just after cutting his own arm and marking his son's body with blood, a Yup'ik burial ritual. Copyright © Fandango. Core is shot in the chest by an arrow from Vernon. Wright looks confused the entire film, things get very weird late, and at the end, you are depressed and wondering what you watched. In September 2015, it was announced Jeremy Saulnier would direct the film, based upon a screenplay by Macon Blair, while Eva Maria Daniels, Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder would produce the film under their VisionChaos Productions banner and Addictive Pictures banners respectively, A24 would distribute the film. Unwilling to shoot them, Core returns to Keelut. and the Terms and Policies, [4] In January 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film, with Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp joining as producers. [7][8], It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2018. 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