This was actually pretty good! I had no idea what to expect, being yet another horror film I’d never heard of, but yeah… Good creepy monster flick!
(One quibble, the editor must have just learned about color tinting. Went a little overboard.)
Dark Was the Night
Evil's Roots Run Deep
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
10/17/2014Runtime
97 minsOverview
An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods. Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods, strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.
How It Feels
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A creature horror film that intertwines personal trauma with external threat, where a sheriff's fractured marriage and unresolved grief become as much a source of dread as the thing stalking the forest. It moves with deliberate pacing, building an atmosphere of inescapable danger where both the wilderness and the human heart feel hostile.
Mood
Dread-soakedTenseMelancholicBleak
Themes
GriefFamilyIsolationNature
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticDesaturated
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceAnimal harm
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