The Dark is a 2018 Austrian horror film written and directed by Justin P. Lange and starring Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, and Karl Markovics. The plot features an undead teenage girl befriending an abused, blind boy and regaining humanity in the process.
The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2018. It was released in the United States on VOD on October 26, 2018.
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Cast
Nadia Alexander as Mina
Toby Nichols as Alex
Karl Markovics as Josef
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of 27 critics' reviews are positive. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on 4 critics, which the site labels as "mixed or average" reviews.
Variety described The Dark as "well-crafted and well-acted", but that "in trying to succeed as something both metaphorical and very literal-minded, the movie ends up being neither one nor the other — not psychologically deep enough to succeed as pure drama, and too earnest to offer the usual rewards of a genre film."