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Title: Dark Skies (2013)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Keri Russell | ... | Lacy Barrett | |
| Josh Hamilton | ... | Daniel Barrett | |
| Dakota Goyo | ... | Jesse Barrett | |
| Kadan Rockett | ... | Sam Barrett | |
| J.K. Simmons | ... | Edwin Pollard | |
| L.J. Benet | ... | Kevin Ratner | |
| Rich Hutchman | ... | Mike Jessop | |
| Myndy Crist | ... | Karen Jessop | |
| Annie Thurman | ... | Shelly Jessop | |
| Jake Brennan | ... | Bobby Jessop (as Jake Washburn) | |
| Ron Ostrow | ... | Richard Klein | |
| Tom Costello | ... | Young Father | |
| Marion Kerr | ... | Young Mother | |
| Alyvia Alyn Lind | ... | Young Daughter | |
| Josh Stamberg | ... | Police Officer | |
The Barrett family-mother Lacy, father Daniel, older son Jesse, and younger son Sammy-reside on a quiet suburban street in an unnamed American city. Daniel is currently unemployed, placing the burden of supporting the family on Lacy, who works as a real estate agent. Their two sons enjoy a happy relationship and communicate with each other from their beds via walk-talkie. A number of strange occurrences befall the family. During the night, the contents of the kitchen are rearranged in bizarre configurations. The house alarm is set off when it detects that all entry points were breached simultaneously. Sammy suffers a fit while playing soccer and Lacy is shocked when hundreds of birds suddenly crash into the house. One night, Lacy is awakened by a sound from Sammy's room. When she goes to check on him, through the darkness she sees a figure standing over his bed. She turns on the light to find an empty room. Sammy is found walking away from the house but cannot remember leaving. Lacy, ...
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A typical middle-class suburban family suddenly have the strangest and eeriest of experiences happening right in their very home, to all the members of the family. These range from simple skin allergies to elaborate geometric skin markings, from photos disappearing from their frames to birds crashing into their windows. As their kids Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett) seem to be the targets of the unseen assailants, Lacy (Felicity Huffman) and Daniel (Josh Hamilton) have to race against time and the unknown to save their family. Can they?
"Dark Skies" straddles the genres of horror and science fiction. It is not bad at all. It is not overly ambitious. It achieves the goals it sets out to do effectively. Of course, there are typical horror clichés and convenient coincidences all around but the execution manages to make it work. The main actors have some preposterous things to do and say, yet they still manage to pull it off somehow and make us care about them. I am not going to reveal here what exactly was going on in this film, but I can say that this could be a very good episode of the X- Files if Mulder and Scully were there.