From the Dark

Take two annoying and dull Irish folks, put them in a countryside with an inept peat bog creature that can't seem to kill them, and what do you have? One hour and thirty minutes of nothing. That's right, nothing. Nothing at all. It seems said bog creature just can't kill the woman, and he doesn't really try and she then cuts herself in some accidents, about five times. She purposely cuts off her finger, doesn't bleed to death, feels no pain, and later impales her foot on a loose stake while in the bogs. How she made it that far in life is beyond me. It is entirely dull and trivial nonsense.

yes please! i likey! more? yes! ** i thought this was a great movie! it was suspenseful and had just the right amount of gore (squishy noises and spurts of blood very well done) which makes things much more realistic in my mind. there were lots of suspenseful moments during the couples' desperate searches for light sources. music/voice volume was well balanced and the soundtrack tensed things up nicely. i liked how the creature was portrayed - you know what he looks like yet you can't quite see him... the jumps were randomly timed and not overly done. don't miss the ever so slightly cheesy glimpses and emotional-like feelings near the end... so much better than the last 30 horrors i've watched! thank you! i'm going to sleep with a smile on my face tonight :)

Take two annoying and dull Irish folks, put them in a countryside with an inept peat bog creature that can't seem to kill them, and what do you have? One hour and thirty minutes of nothing. That's right, nothing. Nothing at all. It seems said bog creature just can't kill the woman, and he doesn't really try and she then cuts herself in some accidents, about five times. She purposely cuts off her finger, doesn't bleed to death, feels no pain, and later impales her foot on a loose stake while in the bogs. It is entirely dull and trivial nonsense.

A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a bog creature who only attacks at night. Director Conor McMahon has been moving up in the world of horror over the last decade. He was the first recipient of a new funding scheme from the Irish Film Board, and this allowed him to make the successful zombie film "Dead Meat" (2004). He really caught people's attention in 2012 with "Stitches", a horror-comedy with a bigger (yet still small) budget that was picked up by MPI and Dark Sky. With "From the Dark" (2014), he is again working with Dark Sky, and possibly releasing his best film yet... For "From the Dark", he may have found his muse. Niamh Algar is a Dublin-based actress from Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. In 2014, she graduated from the Programme for Screen Acting at Bow Street (formally known as The Factory), a program led by directors John Carney, Shimmy Marcus, Kirsten Sheridan, Lance Daly and casting director Maureen Hughes. She is not only a great actress, but capable of some impressive physical feats -- she both swims and boxes. The film has been described as "taut", and that is not a bad summary. The two best things about this are the cinematography and the simplicity. The cinematography covers all the bases, from nice wide landscape shots of the Irish countryside (a special treat for those of us foreigners) to very close, very claustrophobic filming in the dark. The variation in styles really gives the film a broad range. But then we also have the simplicity. For almost half the film, Algar's character is alone and in the dark. She has no one to bounce lines off of and must present herself with facial expressions. This is an actor's dream and nightmare. Luckily, she pulls it off with flying colors and is now poised for bigger roles. (Hopefully she does not abandon us horror folk, though).

Apart from a very few glimpses of beautiful Irish nature scenery - which is the reason I gave this movie two stars instead of one - it was completely worthless. First of all it was difficult to even SEE anything, most of the time, because of the dark pictures, the short, quick scenes, and the shaking camera. I can understand why the picture quality must be bad and why the camera must be shaking, if it is supposed to be a "Blair Witch" type of movie, with a hand-held amateur camera being part of the idea. But that was not the case here. So WHY the bad photo..? And then: there was no real story, no mystery to be solved, no explanation, no twist in the end. Just two people and a creature of an unidentified kind, chasing each other around in the darkness, a lot of grunting noises, sounds of blows, things bumping etc.. This would have been a bad movie even if it had been only a student project of some kind!

I couldn't make it past the 20 minute mark. The boyfriend literally ruins this movie entirely. He manages to fulfill every tired boring horror movie cliché in less than 15 minutes. So bad in fact that I was hoping he would die before I even saw this stupid leprechaun or whatever the hell it was supposed to be. I've referenced IMDb for years, and I've never been motivated to write a review , but this pile managed to evoke such disgust and anger in me that I was left no choice. Holy sh** what a load of crap this movie is. Who read this and said "yea this seems great, here's money so you can make it a reality." Shoot everyone involved in my opinion, nothing could save this movie not even a Warwick cameo. Crap piled on crap with a side dish of crap and more crap for dessert....... Crap.

Feels like a found footage cheapo, but it's not.... Low budget is the key word here..... The type of Horror movie you could fall asleep to, if you turned down the sound... Not scary, just a waste of time.. Quick jumps, darkness, unfortunately doesn't make a scary movie... 2 annoying characters argue until their car gets stuck in the mud... The guy leaves her alone in the dark to find help....(Of course) When he comes back He knows, the house is weird, and a farmer is acting very strange, but he opts to take his girl there...... The rest is all cat and mouse with a Vampire.......

Well where to start on this pile. OK the acting wasn't too bad until the guy had his leg hurt then lost the will to speak? I was enjoying it until it became too unrealistic for words! OK so you have a creature that can only hurt you if you are in the dark so what do you do stay in the light right? well at least three times the main character had the chance to stay in the light until dawn but doesn't! It gets very annoying and boring when she decides for no reason at all to risk her life for a second time. Oh lets not forget her big plan was to escape on a tractor yes a f*cking tractor that can do maybe 25mph but far less over fields to escape a vampire oooookkkk lol despite all this I did really try to enjoy it because it tried to be different but it just fell down on so many levels by trying to be more than it should. It would of been far more enjoyable her hiding under a lamp all night fending them off and him slowly turning and I'm not joking. As for the other reviewers so far enjoy the paycheck lol So 2 for the acting and 2 for trying to be original only watch if you are seriously bored :)

30 minutes in... I genuinely thought this movie was going to deliver. The acting was good, the production values were great, it had oodles of atmosphere and bags of potential.... but sadly it went nowhere! I'm a 33 year-old horror buff who's starved for decent new horror movies to watch and unfortunately this film left me gagging. Without giving too much away, essentially it's about some Nosferatu-ish creatures who are afraid of light. Apparently even a burning match is enough to repel them. It's a shame that the creatures aren't very scary and the characters aren't very sympathetic. Adding insult to injury is the fact that there are only two main characters... so the maximum kill-count you can expect... is TWO! All I can say is that I was thoroughly enjoying FROM THE DARK... until it lost its spark. It could've been brilliant?

Leprechaun: Origins; Deep in the Darkness; Animal; Nostrum! From the Dark is a good movie if you keep in mind its budget, the fact that had only 3 actors plus a monster and the surroundings. If you put all of it together adding the so typical plot, the not so always great decisions taking throughout the movie and the way it ended, well, I graded it a 6 simply because I still think it did better than most. I will recommend it for a horror fan, surely enough it is a good add-on to one's collection, I can declare myself overall satisfied with this production, then again, had very low hopes for it, so I just pressed play and let the time passed. I think most of you will say it is around a 4-5, but I for one have seen many horrors, a lot of indies and low budgets so in comparison to what I got to see lately, From The Dark stands taller than the rest. Don't miss it, if you like horrors, it will bring you a little to the more old period. Monsters in the dark, afraid of light, and our heroes in need of daylight to survive! Cheers!