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[Pak-Man]

The Dark

Feature film · 2018

Are you afraid of The Dark? You should be. Not because it’s scary, it most certainly isn’t, but because it will rattle your brains if you try too hard to understand what it’s about.

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

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Are you afraid of The Dark? You should be. Not because it's scary, it most certainly isn't, but because it will rattle your brains if you try too hard to understand what it's about.

Is it a 70s cop drama about a serial killer? Or a monster movie about a demonic alien creature zapping people with its laser vision? The answer is somehow both, but also neither. William Devane, currently starring in commercials where he convinces older folks it's a good idea to put all their money in gold, is a "sexy" former cop turned novelist (sure, why not) out to avenge his daughter's death in a battle against... whatever is happening in The Dark. Really, we spent a lot of time with this movie and we're still not sure, we'd love your help.

Rounding out the cast of stock 70s character actors who appeared in multiple episodes of Columbo, we've got "voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo" Casey Kasem as a grim police coroner, Cathy Lee Crosby, and Richard Jaeckel, who keen-eyed Rifftrax fans may recognize as the scientist who got yelled at by shirtless Leslie Nielsen in Day of the Animals.

So yeah, there's a lot to love in The Dark. But not a lot to see, because it's dark. Step into the murk of the late 70s with Mike, Kevin, and Bill, and savor the darky darkness of... The Dark!

Written By
Michael J. Nelson, Conor Lastowka, Sean Thomason

Contributing Writers
Molly Hodgdon, Jason Miller, Brian Boone, Zachary Schatzer

[losingmydignity]

Wow, I vaguely remember watching this on cable years ago and not even being able to figure out the genre of this movie.

[MerryWanna]

I enjoyed this one. Kevin sings in it, which he hasn't been doing for a while, and I have missed that. It would have been impossible to watch unriffed because of that "you can't see a damn thing" factor. The guys did a great job with it, though. 😁

[dbsommer]

I watched this uncut and unriffed. Dear god, they actually had more scenes that led nowhere and did nothing. They weren't even bad, just pointless, like all but the first 10 and last 10 minutes of the film. I mean rewatch the riff and you realize the guys are basically commenting on scenes that aren't 'bad' as much as pointless and leading to nothing. And you can only do that for so long. While I am critical of some cut movies, in this one it was for the best.

[eegah]

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