Runtime:
92 minutes
Release
Date: April 10, 2015
Rating:
R
Director:
Lluis Quilez
Out of
the Dark opens in the early 1990s. An older doctor gathers a group
files and tries to set the papers on fire before hearing a series of
noises that sends him running in terror. What looks like a group of
children then come out of the darkness and chase him until he falls
off a balcony to his death.
The film
then jumps to Sarah and Paul in the present day. Sarah's father owns
a large paper mill in the same town where the doctor once lived and
offers her a high paying job. Though the two have a young daughter,
Hannah, they think that the move will do them good. They continue
thinking that, even after learning that they will be living in a
large house far from the city. The two live here in the care of a
sitter to explore the town and its annual festival.
When
they return, they discover that some weird things happened that
night. The sitter tells them that she thinks their house is haunted,
which causes Paul to fire her. Hannah becomes incredibly sick and
only gets worse. The mill doctor, the son of the doctor from the
beginning, promises to help them. Though he does tests and draws
blood, he claims that everything came back normal and that it's just
a virus.
As Sarah
becomes caught up in her work, she learns that several young children
went missing two decades ago. Hannah becomes so sick that they
finally decide to take her back home for help. Before that can happen
though, a group of strange looking children with bandages on them
lure Hannah outside and then disappear with her. Sarah then discovers
that some of the kids who went missing had the same symptoms as
Hannah and realizes that what happened in the past has a deep
connection to the present day.
Let's
get this out of the way. The main reason I watched Out of the Dark
was for pure nostalgia. Julia Stiles of 10 Things I Hate About You
and Save the Last Dance plays Sarah, and Scott Speedman of Felicity
fame is Paul. Put either of them in anything, and I'll probably watch
it. Sadly for me, that means I was stuck watching this.
The
thing about Out of the Dark is that it doesn't really bring anything
new to the table. I can't count the number of movies I've seen about
parents moving to the country and something weird happens to their
child. I kept waiting for something that would make me scared, make
me worried, or at least make me care. I just didn't find anything I
really cared about in this one.
Paul and
Sarah have so little chemistry that it makes you wonder why they got
married or had a child and why the hell he agreed to follow her to
the middle of nowhere. They don't seem to care all that much about
the fact that their daughter will grow up in some foreign country
with no friends nearby and no knowledge of the language either. It
ended up feeling like they didn't care, so why should we care either.
Even
though I watched this one for free on Netflix, I wouldn't recommend
it.
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