Today on VOD: Dark Places and Harbinger Down
John Squires
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There’s a whole lot going on at the theater this weekend, and for those who are looking to get out of the house, we highly recommend Joel Edgerton’s thriller The Gift. If you’d rather spend the weekend at home, two new genre offerings are available with the click of a button.
First up, Charlize Theron leads an all-star cast in Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s Dark Places, starring alongside Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan, and Corey Stoll. The film is an adaptation of Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn’s novel.
Dark Places tells the story of Libby Day (Theron), a woman who, at the age of 7, survives the massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the murderer. Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes confronts her with questions about the horrific event.
Told in a series of flashbacks from the points of view of Libby’s mother, Patty, and her brother, Ben, Libby is forced to revisit that fateful day and begins to question what exactly she saw – or didn’t see – the night of the tragedy.
Also out today in limiters and via On Demand platforms is Vertical Entertainment’s Harbinger Down, a practical effects-heavy monster movie that stars horror icon Lance Henriksen. Alec Gillis wrote and directed the film, which is a direct response to Hollywood’s over-reliance on CGI.
In the creature feature, a group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship’s crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly.
It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for three decades, the creatures aren’t about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
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