Dark Touch
Directed by:
Marina de VanScreenplay:
Marina de VanCinematography:
John ConroyComposer:
Christophe ChassolCast:
Clare Barrett, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney, Art Parkinson, Charlotte Flyvholm, Richard Dormer, Olga Wehrly, Mark Huberman, Steve Wall (more)VOD (1)
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In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Neve finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest. Haunted objects, an eerie score and a moody, oneiric look complement this intense and frightening peek into child abuse and the searing imagination of writer/director Marina de Van. (IFC Films)
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Once again, the ending ruins it. In the first 75 minutes Marina de Van carefully builds up the unsettling atmosphere of a smart social horror story about a psychologically abused child, only to gradually slide it in the last 15 minutes into an utterly pointless, cheap and wannabe shocking outcome. One of her previous films (the only other one I’ve seen so far) had exactly the same problem, but that one was derivative crap right from the beginning. Dark Touch, however, was going really solid, so the way it falls apart in the end it’s a bigger shame. I’m giving it three stars, but I was ready to give more.
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