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The Dark is an enjoyable but forgettable monster flick. It starts out as a cliche from hell: A widower drinking at his wife's grave, a bar-fight that asks us to believe a scientist can take three bikers, and a sex scene involving two people that just met. That's the forgettable part. The enjoyable side of the movie comes when our characters finally enter the graveyard tunnels. It seems that there's a creature under the cemetery that feeds off the dead and secretes a powerful healing ooze. We've got our hero, who wants to save the creature, and our villain, who wants to destroy it, racing each other to find the monster first. It's quite an original story, but the way it was done reminded me of Graveyard Shift (i.e. humans running around underground with giant rats). It stars Stephen McHattie (doing his best Lance Henriksen impression, as mentioned in previous reviews), a pre-Scream Neve Campbell, and B-movie king Brion James. When researching the movie, I found out that Brion James died in mid '99. It's sad news, but he left a large legacy of B horror classics and A science-fiction epics. The Dark might not be one of these classics, but it deserves more respect that it gets.
The Dark is an enjoyable but forgettable monster flick. It starts out as a cliche from hell: A widower drinking at his wife's grave, a bar-fight that asks us to believe a scientist can take three bikers, and a sex scene involving two people that just met. That's the forgettable part. The enjoyable side of the movie comes when our characters finally enter the graveyard tunnels. It seems that there's a creature under the cemetery that feeds off the dead and secretes a powerful healing ooze. We've got our hero, who wants to save the creature, and our villain, who wants to destroy it, racing each other to find the monster first. It's quite an original story, but the way it was done reminded me of Graveyard Shift (i.e. humans running around underground with giant rats). It stars Stephen McHattie (doing his best Lance Henriksen impression, as mentioned in previous reviews), a pre-Scream Neve Campbell, and B-movie king Brion James. When researching the movie, I found out that Brion James died in mid '99. It's sad news, but he left a large legacy of B horror classics and A science-fiction epics. The Dark might not be one of these classics, but it deserves more respect that it gets.