Dark Places [Blu-ray] [2023]

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Extras: Language(s): English, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Screen ratio 1:1. Updated daily and in real-time, we track all high-def disc news and release dates, and review the latest disc titles. Despite a strong performance from Theron, who suitably embraces the role, the game cast – involving Christina Hendricks, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Hoult and Tye Sheridan – largely fail to escape their underdeveloped characters or limited screen time. A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving notorious crimes. Have you even watched a bad movie that relies on an over-used score simply because the direction, story and acting aren't capable of conveying a tone or tension on their own?

Bouncing around back and forth between the present story and the past, you'll be able to immediately tell where 'Dark Places' is going.It all adds up to something that's worth a watch without ever being truly original or memorable enough to be outstanding in any way. I'd be interested to know as well how the transfer looks on Nucleus Films's release (still haven't got their Blu-ray releases of Nothing Underneath and Too Beautiful to Die). Although Fincher’s more successful elder sibling now overshadows the piece, Dark Places was actually shot around the same time as Gone Girl by French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner.

As new memories and old suspects flood back into her life, Libby begins to question her own testimony and sets out to discover the truth of her tragic past. This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. Gone Girl" est un de mes films préférés, film inspiré directement des "Apparences" de Flynn, qui est décidemment est une très grande écrivaine ! British label Nucleus Films is preparing a Blu-ray release of Don Sharp's Dark Places (1973), starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, and Robert Hardy.The POV footage carries this quality intentionally because it's meant to represent the recollection of a childhood memory. Having not read any of Gillian Flynn's books, I was pleasantly surprised by David Fincher's adaptation of her twisted novel ' Gone Girl. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

It’s a mixed bag of a presentation, which doesn’t quite hold up to close scrutiny, but still gets the job done and likely remains faithful to the source material. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Twenty-five years later Libby meets Lyle (Nicholas Hoult), the head of a group of true-crime enthusiasts, The Kill Club, who convince her to re-examine the events of that night. For more about Dark Places and the Dark Places Blu-ray release, see Dark Places Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on November 7, 2022 where this Blu-ray release scored 3. The novel from which is was based was not only filled with unpredictable twists and turns, but it hid an insane commentary on society, parenthood, and marriage. Theron plays an angry character who wants nothing to do with the world, yet wouldn't have a roof over her head without it.

Black levels are consistently strong – but never crushed – creating a tension from the uncertainty of what lies within the shadows. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Even More Details: Language(s): English|Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English|Subtitles: English|Interactive Menu|Screen ratio 1:1. Im sure this is the last early seventies film of this genre to get a blu ray release It’s certainly the last one for me to add to my collection!Added into this quasi-time and/or identity traveling mix is the fact that Foster's former doctor, Ian Mandeville (Christopher Lee) and his sister (! I still like Theron as an okay actress; she clearly thought this was going to be another hit like Monster, however, this is not one to watch twice - watching it once was long and hard enough.