44 out of 52 people found the following review helpful:

Entertaining, but predictable and pretty dull at times

DJM666 from , 14th April, 2006

An entertaining film on the whole, which has a slow pace at times (the first 30-minutes or so somewhat drag), but has hints of The Ring & Silent Hill, and an interesting (if predictable and straight-forward) story. The movie gets better it progresses, and has an interesting but predictable & somewhat confusing twist ending. The film is short at 85-minutes, and there was the potential for something better (which was never really met), but the small cast do a good job (including Sean Bean, Monica Bello, and Maurice Roëves), and in the end the film delivered pretty much what I expected going in. The Dark is not as good as the director’s most well-known movie Ginger Snaps, but it passes 90-minutes. Not a film I would recommend watching at the cinema though, I would wait for the DVD instead.

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13 out of 16 people found the following review helpful:

unexpected

A Customer from Scotland, 25th August, 2006

Didn't have high hopes for this one but was very pleasantly surprised. Excellent acting, very creepy atmosphere throughout,good photography and a decent ending. it might be similar to a number of recent offerings but in my opinion by far the best.

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10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Good parts and funny parts!

rendragegroeg from North Yorkshire, 31st August, 2006

Watch out for the DEMON SHEEP!

Based on welsh legends that you can go beyond the grave and bring someone back - it has an interesting story - but sometimes lacks the acting to make it plausible

Watch out for the scene with the demon sheep pushing the girl off the cliff - its hilariously!

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9 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Feeling Sheepish

Soulcurls from Southampton, 4th September, 2006

I’m sure the sheep were Welsh, but no one else in this Wales-set film seemed to be. Surely not even the Welsh could buy this terrible mangling of one of their legends. All credit to the cinematography as there were some beautiful wind-swept cliff-top pieces and some really creepy underwater shots, but the early promise was lost in a complex and at times simply daft plot. Even the emotional trauma of losing a daughter couldn’t fully explain the main protagonists eager acceptance of the frankly bizarre situation they found themselves in. I think this is definitely a case of a really scary novel not translating very well to film, and worse still, of a films trailer being more frightening than the actual result.

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the dark

A Customer from scotland, 18th March, 2010

This was really good i enjoyed this, after it was on for 10 minutes my husband left the room, but i was on the edge of my seat dont get me wrong i have watched better but this made me a bit anxious, bit scared and very glad i rented it.

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the dark

evelovesfilm from , 28th December, 2009

Good thriller low budget english ring like film, good watching non the less

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This is Baaaaddd!!

A Customer from London, 21st September, 2009

I would avoid this pathetic horror at all costs. I wanted to see it as it has Sean Bean in it and I am a fan of a lot of his work, however this is just terrible. It becomes so confusing half way through I'm sure even the writers were lost when they penned this. Avoid!!!!

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Just OK

Baz199 from , 26th July, 2009

This film can only be described as strange. The storyline was particularly odd. It was OK but thankfully it didn't last too long.

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