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From 2015, "Dark Places" stars Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, and Corey Stoll in an adaptation of a novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). Theron is Libby Day, one of two living survivors of the mass murder of her family in 1985 in Kansas. Where else - it's where the murders in In Cold Blood took place. The other survivor is her brother Ben (Stoll), a teen at the time, who has been in prison for the last 25 years for the murders, due to what she told the police. Libby is a cold, closed-off human being, understandably, given what she went through as a child; she cashed in on the murders and never worked. As a child people sent her money, and she also wrote a book -- well, her name was on it and she was paid, but she states that she never even read it. Now that she's an adult, she has $412 left and has never had a job. So when she's approached by a crime club called the Kill Club, which discusses and works on famous murder cases, she takes their money to make an appearance. Though she insists her brother is guilty, Libby takes more money to actually investigate for the club's president (Hoult). It has to be done right away because storage problems in the state building mean that cases more than ten years old will be destroyed in a few weeks. Flashbacks recreate the circumstances surrounding the murders, showing her mother (Hendricks) trying to hold onto their farm despite poverty, her alcoholic husband who shows up for money, Ben being accused of child molestation and of practicing Satanism, and Ben's relationship with Diondra (Chloe Grace Moretz), who seems to be the town bad girl. Slowly Libby is able to put the pieces together and learns the stunning truth. I don't understand the vilification of this movie - what has it ever done to anyone? A 26% fresh on rottentomatoes.com. Was it Hate Charlize Day or what? This is a terrific, suspenseful film that will keep you guessing right to the end. Theron gives a frosty performance, right on for this isolated, unfriendly woman who has cut herself off from the world and people. She wears a baseball cap throughout most of the film; we don't really get to see her true beauty unless it's off. There is a book called "Flesh and Fantasy" which has a chapter on How to Win an Oscar. One way is for a beautiful movie star to make herself look bad, as Theron did in Monster. She prefers to make films that are not about her gorgeous looks, and this was one. Christina Hendricks does a great job as Libby's downtrodden mother - she looks and acts defeated - a far cry from being one of the glamorous stars of "Mad Men." For fans of this genre, and I gather for people who haven't read the book, I think this is a very well done film that deserves to be seen as a rental or on Amazon streaming.

With the success of Gone Girl, film producers have been scrambling to adapt other works from novelist Gillian Flynn. However this adaptation of Dark Places by French Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner lacks the style, tension and panache of Dave Fincher's superior adaptation of Gone Girl. Libby Day (Charlize Theron) as a 7 year old survived an attack on her family home which left her mother and two sisters dead. Her brother who was dabbling in drugs and Satanism was found guilty of the crimes. Thirty decades later with cash running out Libby is persuaded by the prospect of money by amateur crime investigator (Nicholas Hoult) part of the Kill Club (who investigate true life crimes) to confront the past and that her brother may not had committed the crimes. With the use of flashbacks we see events leading up to the crime and introduced to alternative suspects such as Libby's no good father or her brother's pregnant girlfriend. The film tries to go for a grungy dirty look but even the 1980s flashbacks look insipid. The devil worship material is almost laughable and there is little that is noirish about this film. Theron has glammed down for the role and hides her million dollar haircut by wearing a cap but the film is just dull and downbeat. Maybe the script could had taken some inspiration from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and we could see a film of lives torn apart but what we get is just unstimulating.

Had i not read the book, this is possibly one of the 10 worst films I have ever seen. Having read the book, I think there are only 2 or 3 movies that are worse. I mean really? Did they just give the writers a list of check marks and say "Hey this happened in the book, why don't you say this s**t?" It just feels like a bunch of s**t that happens, no reason, no motive. I could understand it as a b-list thriller, but how did they get this cast? (Charlize one of the worst miscasts ever). That being said, how is it possible that such a good cast gives such a collectively terrible performance? I have been in middle school plays with better acting. It was like watching a daytime soap opera. Nothing makes sense, the characters are poor and it is an absolute abomination. HOW, HOW could you take such a strong cast and story and make such a terrible movie? For sure the low point in every single actor/actress's career. For a good on screen imagining, the directing/cinematography/script need to make the story come alive in a way that the book couldn't accomplish. This takes a great story and makes it seem like it was written by a stoned teenager. I am mad.

I didn't care much for Gone Girl -- maybe it was Ben Affleck -- but I was drawn to this movie despite that. Maybe it was Charlize Theron, maybe it was Nicholas Hoult, whom I have enjoyed watching grow into a first rate actor since his days in Skins. In any case, whatever reservations I had at first rapidly dissolved into a distant memory as the first ten minutes passed. Usually I roll my eyes at flashback-driven efforts, but not so with Dark Places. Each switch back to 1985 is like the tumblers on a lock giving that satisfying click as you pick it, breeding anticipation and certainty that there is a rich reward at the end for your efforts, every scene evoking a subtle revelation that drives the story onward. Well cast, well scored, well directed, Dark Places deserves more recognition than it has garnered. If I had to point out one flaw, it would be a forgivable one; MISFITS swag was not that easy to come by in 1985.

I thought the film had a lot of really cool twist and turns that kept me guessing all the way to the end. There were a lot of layers too it that did not jumble up on you to become too complicated. I guess the story was flushed out quite well by the filmmaker. The film had a lot of cool elements too. Charlize Theron plays Libby Day, the lone survivor of a massacre done by her brother of their entire family. Twenty years later, a convention of geeks that love serial killers, lead by Nicolas Hoult, contact her and pay her to help them prove that her brother did not do it. Even though she said he did Twenty years ago. The movie lives up to the title. It points out how low a person can get on many different levels. Good watch.