The Dark (film)
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The Dark | |
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Directed by | John Fawcett |
Produced by | Steve Christian |
Written by | Simon Maginn (novel) |
Starring | Sean Bean Maria Bello Richard Elfyn Maurice Roëves Abigail Stone Sophie Stuckey |
Music by | Edmund Butt |
Cinematography | Christian Sebaldt |
Editing by | Chris Gill |
Release date(s) | January 2006 |
Running time | 93 mins |
Country | Germany/UK |
Language | English/Welsh |
IMDb profile |
The Dark is a 2005 horror film, based on the novel Sheep by Simon Maginn.
Tagline: One of the living for one of the dead.
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[edit] Plot
In mourning over the tragic drowning of their daughter Sarah, James and Adèle Tullian are visited by Ebrill (pronouced "Ah-brith" and Welsh for "April"), a young girl who claims she died 60 years ago ... and who bears a startling resemblance to Sarah.
[edit] Synopsis
While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her teenager daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). They see a weird memorial with a evidence of a plate missing and with the name "Annwyn" (Welsh for the afterlife) marked, and a local man Dafydd (Maurice Roëves) explains that this would be the place where people go after dying in accordance with the Welsh mythology. Later, Sarah vanishes on the beach and the daughter of the local fanatic shepherd, Ebrill (Abigail Stone), who died fifty years ago, appears in her place. Adele starts reseaching to find how to rescue her daughter from Annwyn.
[edit] Cast
- Sean Bean....James
- Maria Bello....Adèle
- Richard Elfyn....Rowan
- Maurice Roëves....Dafydd
- Abigail Stone....Ebrill
- Sophie Stuckey....Sarah
- Caspar Harvey.....Young Dafydd
[edit] Director
- John Fawcett
[edit] Writer
- Simon Maginn (novel)
- Stephen Massicotte (screenplay)
[edit] DVD
The DVD was released on April 11th, 2006.