The Dark 2005 123movies

Watch: The Dark 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – While in Wales visiting her husband James, Adèlle tries to fix her relationship with her teenager daughter Sarah. They see a weird memorial without the plate and with the name “Annwyn” marked, and the local Dafydd explains that this would be the place where people go after dying in accordance with the Welsh mythology. Later, Sarah vanishes on the beach and the daughter of the local fanatic shepherd, Ebrill, who died fifty years ago, appears in her place. Adele makes a research trying to find how to rescue her daughter from Annway..
Plot: Adèlle goes to Wales with her daughter Sarah to try and patch things up with Sarah’s father, but the visit turns tragic when the daughter disappears in the ocean. Then, a young girl named Ebrill, who eerily resembles their daughter, shows up claiming she’s been dead for 60 years — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 10,956
	40% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 220 Popularity: 6.375 | TMDB

Reviews:

Stock scare horror for the first half, then a somewhat confused but clever psychological horror the second half.
Sean Bean is such a lost talent, he’s a great actor and never seems to be given a decent or lead role. Even in Lord of the Rings he was cast as the turncoat. So I was excited to hear that he was the lead man in this movie, although not the lead it was a good step. Plus it was a British film and a horror. These things all combined to make me think that this was a movie to see.

Both Bean and Maria Bello are very convincing in the movie. Bean plays the straight up man who is confused by the happenings around him and just wants to make the family happy again, he plays a super convincing Father. Bello gives a great performance as she is called upon to be a trying mother, confused, insane, panicked and totally distraught. Not that much of a range really! The interplay between these two actors is very good, and when Bean has scenes with the daughter, he’s just superb.

Something that becomes quite annoying through the first half of the movie are the deliberate scare tactics used by the Director, they are exceedingly formulaic and you know when they are coming and even when the shock comes. Still, all credit to them, you still leap out of your chair even knowing when a scare is coming. The formula is pretty constant through the first half, slow music, a long single scene, slow movement and no action, usually in the darkness, then a few fast cuts together accompanied by a loud sound and a raise in the music tempo, and there you have the scare. During the screening people were leaping like mad! After a while following this formula the film does turn around on itself and become something different. It’s here that it becomes a lot more psychological and indeed, clever. There was a big feeling in this half of Event Horizon, particularly the flashbacks to being strapped in the chair, fast, multiple cuts of horror.

However during the latter half it also becomes confusing and very weird, yet I wish the whole movie had been like this. It could have abandoned its standard scare tactics and concentrated on the plot in the latter half, and this would have provided for a much more psychologically scary movie.

There’s a particular moment near the end of the movie when a door closes in front of the lead, and your emotions are totally with the character at this point. Confusion for a few seconds and then a slow building understanding. It’s a very good moment.

Still, however clever the entire ending is, I still felt it lacked clarity and subtlety. Dropping the scare formula of the first half would have brought a much better movie, and getting rid of the premise of scary sheep would have helped too. Perhaps it’s a British thing, but sheep are not in the least bit scary, in fact coming from a Northern Scottish town sheep are considered far from scary. It just seemed to be a plot device that was struggling not to be absurd.

That said, you’ll still leap, you’ll still be scared, and when the film finishes you’ll still like the conclusion.

Interesting and Different Supernatural Horror Film.
Some may say that this was a complete rip-off of “The Ring”, but I disagree. It has some similarities, but the stories are completely different. “The Dark” is about a woman named Adele, who is visiting Whales to see her husband, James, with her daughter, Sarah. On a tragic day, Sarah goes missing on the ocean shore, and after a long search, they conclude that she drowned in the waters. But things get a little freaky after Adele begins seeing a young girl by the name of Ebrill, who looks strikingly similar to Sarah. As she delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, she finds that Ebrill was the daughter of a shepard who lead a cult of religious followers to commit a mass suicide on the rocky ocean shore – and Ebrill has crossed over from the other side, which in Welsh mythology is called “Annwyn”. Now it’s up to Adele to uncover the mystery and get her daughter back.

I was really surprised that this film was never in U.S. theaters. I had heard about this film about a year back and only seen the trailer over the internet (which was in German by the way), and I was happy to see it finally arrive at a local video store. It had great acting (Maria Bello and Sean Bean both deliver worthy performances as two distressed parents), a good story (which was blended with Welsh mythology, which I found to be quite interesting) that was a nice change from your usual horror schlock, and some genuinely creepy moments. The film looks really nice as well, and the English coastal setting is breathtaking.

It was a pretty top-notch film, it’s no B-horror film or anything along those lines if that’s what you are expecting. It looked like something that you would see straight out of Hollywood. I also have to mention the conclusion to the film, which came as a fairly big shock to me. I thought I knew what the “twist” was going to be, and just when my suspicions were confirmed, everything then completely twisted around, leaving me with my jaw dropped. Good writing there, I have to admit this was a really well constructed film.

To sum it up, I found “The Dark” to be a pretty effective movie with some great twists & turns and some frightening moments. It had an interesting and (mostly) original plot, and that was the strongest point in the movie. Extremely good considering it only got a video release in the United States, and worth a look for fans of the genre. 8/10.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 32 min (92 min) (cut) (Philippines)
Budget 0
Revenue 6593579
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director John Fawcett
Writer Simon Maginn, Stephen Massicotte
Actors Sean Bean, Maria Bello, Sophie Stuckey
Country Isle of Man, United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe
Film Length 2,573 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm