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Wednesday 18 October 2017

The Dark (1979)

In an attempt to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, director John "Bud" Cardos chooses to hide his ridiculous looking alien monster in jeans in The Dark. Presumably the positive would be everything else, but all that's left is a vanilla detective and his overeating partner, a kooky psychic, a hack author and a news anchor. It all ends up to be quite an odd amalgam and a piss poor thriller. The film lacks any kind of imagination with its dated visuals, lack of backstory and weak ending. Leave this one in the dark where it belongs.

1 laser beam out of 5

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