Dark Souls (2010)

A revengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.

Directors:

César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul

Writers:

César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul

Stars:

Johanna Gustavsson, Kristian Holter, Ida Elise Broch

2 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Johanna Gustavsson	...	Johanna Ravn
Kristian Holter	...	Driller #1
Ida Elise Broch	...	Maria
Morten Rudå	...	Morten Ravn
Kyrre Haugen Sydness	...	Richard Askestad
Lise Froyland	...	Kristine
David Hernandez	...	Petter
Christopher Angus Campbell	...	Dr. White (as Christopher Campbell)
Bård Eirk Nilsson	...	Ambulansearbeider (as Bård Erik Nilsson)
Trine Dürbeck	...	Paramedic
Eirik Halvorsen	...	Eirik
Kristine Braaten	...	Nina
Marianne Rødje	...	Wendy
Jan Hårstad	...	Dr. Hansen
Henrik Scheele	...	Police Commissioner

Storyline

A young girl, Johanna Ravn, is jogging in the woods, when she's suddenly attacked by a man in an orange jumpsuit. Her assailant drills a hole in her skull and leaves her for dead. When the police calls Johanna's father, Morten Ravn, to ask him to identify his daughter's body in the morgue, he tells them that she has just walked in and is sitting in front of her PC. But there's something wrong with Johanna. Black oil is flowing from her eyes and the only message she's able to type on her screen is one long cry for help. She's in a state of decay, and she's not the only one. All over town, people are attacked by men in orange jumpsuits with electrical drills. The victims all suffer from the same symptoms, with their bodies slowly disintegrating in front of their loved ones. Frustrated with the lack of results from the local police, Morten takes it on himself to investigate the attacks and tracks the killer back to his hideout in secluded manufacturing plant where he begins to uncover ...

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Plot Keywords:

supernatural | slasher | zombie like | police | oil | 

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Taglines:

The darkness within has come out to play

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

The cast ate an awful lot of licorice to get the black goo oozing from their mouths.

User Reviews

Drill and kill, sure... But zombies? Hardly so!

When I bought this movie from Amazon, it was because of the title "Zombie Driller Killer". And to make things even more interesting it also said "invasion of the flesh eating living dead" underneath the "Zombie Driller Killer" title. But the movie is Norwegian and it is titled "Mørke Sjeler", which means "Dark Souls".

Anyway, I sat down to watch the movie, and was frankly speaking more than a little disappointed. The "Zombie Driller Killer - Invasion of the Flesh Eating Living Dead" is nothing more than a cheap trick to lure in people looking for a zombie movie. This is nothing at all like a traditional zombie movie in any way possible. This movie is about some man in an orange jumpsuit that drills into women's brains and injects some liquid that initially kills the victim, but makes them come back from the dead. As zombies? Well, perhaps, but there is no flesh eating participating anywhere in the movie at all. False advertising on the cover in the worst degree.

Story-wise, then this Norwegian horror/thriller movie is fairly weak, especially compared to "Død Snø" ("Dead Snow"). The movie trots ahead t a fairly monotone pace, as we follow Johanna's father in his search for the one who turned his daughter into a brain-dead 'vegetable'. The story doesn't really offer any scares or surprises.

The movie is not all bad though, there are aspects of it that are great. There is a good continuous flow to the movie, as it trots on. And the dialogue is alright as well - just know that it is in Norwegian (if you don't enjoy foreign movies).

The acting in the movie was good as well, of course not really award-winning material, but people did good jobs with their given roles. And not having seen that many Norwegian movies or television, then it was good to have a whole bunch of fresh faces that weren't associated with previous roles and characters.

A warning to gore-hounds and zombie aficionados out there, this movie is by definition NOT a zombie movie, and you might up just as disappointed with this movie as I was.

Details

Country:

Norway France

Language:

Norwegian

Release Date:

4 February 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zombie Driller

Filming Locations:

Oslo, Norway

Box Office

Budget:

NOK1,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Addict Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1