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Horror, Fantasy, Mystery 100 min NR
Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic71IMDb
Not everything can be forgiven.
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
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Intimate, contemplative, bleak and overwhelming.
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The clever thing about *A Dark Song* is that it makes magic feel less like spectacle than administration. Buy months of food. Find exactly the right house. Draw the circles. Seal the boundary. Follow the instructions. Tell the truth. Absolutely do not improvise. That last one turns out to be important. Sophia hires occultist Joseph Solomon to perform the Abramelin ritual so she can contact her guardian angel. Catherine Walker and Steve Oram carry almost the entire film between them, and Oram is particularly good because Solomon never looks like cinema's idea of a magician. He's belligerent, grubby, practical and faintly irritated by everything. Yet the film gradually removes any comfortable possibility that he's simply a fraud. It does this beautifully. A distant dog where there shouldn't be one. A bird hitting the window. Flowers appearing. A tremendous knock from beneath the floor. Then gold leaf falling around Sophia inside one of the ritual circles. Each incident is only slightly more impossible than the last, so supernatural certainty creeps into the room rather than kicking the door down. Sophia's problem is that the ritual demands honesty and she has entered it lying about w
Read the whole review on TMDB**The dark as it gets!** It was too slow, one of those films that tests your patience. Not your regular horror flick, but the ingredient was little different than the usual for such theme. A limited cast film and most of the story takes place in an isolated mansion somewhere in Ireland. Where the two people assemble to do some kind of ritual to open the door for the dark force, as well as opposite to that with a reason. Very challenging attempt, had to go through many troubles in the process. But how it all turns out, whether they achieve what they were planning for is what takes us to the final stage where it comes to end with a tiny twist. This is an independent Irish film. Feature film debut for the director. I don't recognise any of two actors, but they were good. Under a small cost, the film had a better quality. Well created atmosphere, the suspense kept the narration to go all way to the finale. Except the opening, the following parts lagged in any kind of development, but once the final act had begun, the scenario had changed and favoured to end high. I would say, that's what saved this film. Otherwise, I was getting ready to bash it. Yet not the best ending, an acceptable
Read the whole review on TMDBVery original and unique movie. Not typical horror movie. What I liked the most about it was the atmosphere. It doesn't have special effects or lots of action, but it's interesting and it's dark. This is the type of movies I love. Also acting is decent.
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