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RSS FeedsNetflix's Hold The Dark Review: Bloody, Bleak, And Baffling
(GameSpot PS2)

 
 

16 october 2018 11:04:15

 
Netflix's Hold The Dark Review: Bloody, Bleak, And Baffling
(GameSpot PS2)
 


Jeremy Saulnier has been quietly establishing himself as one of the most talented independent filmmakers for several years now. His witty horror comedy debut Murder Party was followed by 2013`s intense revenge thriller Blue Ruin, which demonstrated his skill at combining a dark and compelling character drama with often upsetting violence. The stakes were raised even higher by 2015`s brilliant, savage punk rock siege movie Green Room, and while some fans were disappointed that he ultimately dropped out of helming all of True Detective Season 3, the bleak, ambitious Netflix movie Hold the Dark will further his reputation.The film is based on William Giraldi`s 2014 novel, with a screenplay by Saulnier`s regular collaborator Macon Blair. It`s set in the small town of Keelut, deep in the Alaskan wilderness, where young mother Medora Slone (Riley Keough) is coming to terms with the the abduction of her child by a pack of wolves. This is the latest in a series of wolf attacks on the town`s children, so she contacts renowned wolf expert and writer Russell Core (Westworld`s Jeffrey Wright) to track and kill the animal that took her child. Meanwhile, her husband Vernon (a terrifying Alexander Skarsgård) is serving in Iraq, but an injury sends him home, where a dark, bloody reckoning over the death of his son is inevitable.Saulnier is a master at establishing mood. From the the moment Core arrives in Keelut, we know something is very wrong--something unspoken--and that things are not what they seem. The sparse script and Keough and Wright`s underplayed performances add to the unease. These are people who are clearly not used to talking much, and the long silences that accompany their initial encounters deftly create the sense that something very bad is about to happen. Core sets out into the wilderness to track the wolves, but it`s what he discovers when he returns after that first day that really kickstarts the plot.While both Blue Ruin and Green Room were small scale, cl ...


 
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