If you think Nurse Ratchet is most frustrating and hateful movie character ever, wait until you see this film's main antagonist, the undead teenage girl Mina, a supposed protagonist. The Dark has stunning cinematography, perhaps its best feature, because the rest is highly unpleasant and vile.
The said girl, having experienced abuse and untimely demise at the hands of her rapist, does everything to make sure the boy, whose kidnapper she stopped with a hatchet, gets as traumatized as possible. Brutally murdering anyone who tries to rescue him and bring him back to his family, Mina is written as an unlikely ally, and the whole situation as some sort of friendship of two damaged souls. The worst thing is that both actors are solid and even slightly believable, and that is the reason The Dark is much more unsettling that many other horror flicks.
I will never recommend this film to anyone, only as an example of how not to write your characters. The Dark is irritating and disappointing experience from the start to the end that make you believe zombies should never be given consciousness and put into slow-burners driven by situations that require compassion and sanity from them.
The said girl, having experienced abuse and untimely demise at the hands of her rapist, does everything to make sure the boy, whose kidnapper she stopped with a hatchet, gets as traumatized as possible. Brutally murdering anyone who tries to rescue him and bring him back to his family, Mina is written as an unlikely ally, and the whole situation as some sort of friendship of two damaged souls. The worst thing is that both actors are solid and even slightly believable, and that is the reason The Dark is much more unsettling that many other horror flicks.
I will never recommend this film to anyone, only as an example of how not to write your characters. The Dark is irritating and disappointing experience from the start to the end that make you believe zombies should never be given consciousness and put into slow-burners driven by situations that require compassion and sanity from them.