Shine a light on Diana and she becomes incorporeal and harmless. He also uses a very interesting trope for his demonic presence it only becomes visible and physical in darkness. With the feature clocking in at just a hair over 80 minutes, he certainly knows how to keep his stories compact which is laudable these days when movies routinely hit the two hour mark. Sandberg based this movie on a short movie – less than three minutes long – based on the same creature. Some ends, as it turns out, are not as permanent as others. Diana, as it turns out, was a friend who brutalized her in the asylum but had met a gruesome end. Sophie, who not only hears voices but has conversations with them, seems to be talking to a presence named Diana. Concerned that Sophie is terrorizing her little half-brother, Rebecca moves to take Martin over to her apartment and out of Sophie’s influence. Rebecca’s half-brother Martin (Bateman) has now begun to have the same kinds of nightmares and hallucinations that just about destroyed Rebecca’s sanity. When Paul meets a tragic end, Sophie pretty much slides off into the deep end. Sophie was committed to a mental institution as a little girl and came out fragile, but her issues seemed to be under control with medication, and her second husband Paul (Burke) – not Rebecca’s dad by the way – has watched with some alarm as his wife’s mental condition starts to deteriorate rapidly. This is where her mother Sophie (Bello) dwells as a matter of course. She left home the moment she could pack her bags hallucinations and nightmares had driven her to the brink of madness. She lives on her own in an apartment over a tattoo parlor. Rebecca (Palmer) is a metal-loving young woman who has a – I hesitate to call him a boyfriend but he does have sex with her and they’ve been dating for several years – friend with benefits named Bret (DiPersia) who is a musician who plays metal. Sometimes, that which lives in darkness can be downright terrifying. In the dark, anything can happen and not all of it is pleasant. SandbergĪs humans, we are conditioned to fear the unknown and what can be more unknown than darkness? We can’t see what’s in the dark – our eyes aren’t built for it. (2016) Horror ( New Line) Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander DiPersia, Billy Burke, Maria Bello, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Andi Osho, Rolando Boyce, Maria Russell, Elizabeth Pan, Lotta Losten, Amiah Miller, Ava Cantrell, Ariel Dupin. Attention Teresa Palmer: there’s a blue light special in the basement.
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