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A Dark Song

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A young woman and a damaged occultist risk their souls to perform a ritual.
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A Dark Song offers atmospheric, unsettling horror -- and marks writer-director Liam Gavin as one to watch.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses 08/25/2018
9/10
An extraordinarily personal film, A Dark Song feels like a folk tale whispered to you at night while you sleep by person or persons unknown, recalled in vague half-remembered images and flashes of almost incomprehensible truths. Go to Full Review
Matthew Lickona San Diego Reader 05/26/2017
2/5
Imperfectly realized, but still worthy of its ambition. Go to Full Review
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 05/25/2017
An instant classic, the sort of film that will make you check under your bed at night and then amplify into terror the midnight creaks and 3am breezes that unsettle every house at times, most especially yours. Go to Full Review
Eve Tushnet Patheos 09/18/2023
A slow and wrenching film which nonetheless lives up to the promise of its title. Go to Full Review
Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh 05/12/2023
3/5
An unconventional tale of belief and the supernatural, which includes compelling performances, but it doesn't quite stick the landing. Go to Full Review
David Reddish Queerty 03/20/2022
4/4
For much of its runtime, A Dark Song plays coy about the intentions of its characters. Do Sophia and Joseph really believe theyre summoning supernatural beings? Or is the whole ritual just an excuse for some wild kink? Go to Full Review
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Victoria T @RT35847332 May 8 Честно казано това беше един от най-скучните и неловки филми на ужасите, които съм гледала някога. Нито една страшна сцена, никакъв дълбок смисъл във всичките тези ритуали, нито стойностна история, която да следим, нито нищо. Нямаше ужаси, нямаше даже хубава драма, евтин опит за мистерия и разбира се - "секс" сцена (мисля, че това беше единственото по-интересно в целия филм, което е жалко). Цял час и повече губене на време с тези ритуали. А финалът - той си беше разбивач просто - пълна измишльотина с тези "демонични" създания и най вече ангелът пазител. Да бяха сложили подзаглавие "студентски проект" и щях да му дам 10/10, но това си беше за мен пълна загуба на време. See more Melissa L @Agent99 Apr 17 It is very atmospheric, and dark, but I didn't like the "exorcist" from the get-go. It may be written this way for a good reason, but I just really didn't like the actor portraying him...so he's played his part well...but it lowers my rating. See more Richard U. @hungrypanda Mar 15 Incredibly effective bit of occult horror! See more Big D @Drazker Feb 3 I see the message the directors/writers are trying to send, but this movie just didn't deliver. Was extremely boring and slow with a cliche "happy" ending. 1.5/5. See more Robert S @RT93220367 Nov 6 A Dark Song is a strange and exasperating movie that gives up on its own premise in the final 30 minutes of the movie. The first half of the film was interesting, and I’d even say, promising; I dared hope this movie might actually have the balls to be daring and transgressive and really unhinged. But, toward the end a critical character is dead, the promised horrifying rituals and rites never happen, a strict rule is casually broken, and the final scenes wasted on watching our protagonist wander about the countryside. What a total waste!! Where is the movie that’s going to have the gumption to follow through on those rites and rituals, make them hideously difficult and obscene, pull out all stops to bring forth the demons and show us things no other movie has dared? That’s the film I was hoping to see. Very disappointing! See more Drew M @RT22930272 Sep 22 It's clear the writer was trying to say something meaningful about grief, but the ending felt absurdly forced for a film spending so much time wrapped up in realistic portrayals of a harrowing ritual. If the ending hits for you then the acting, cinematography, are well-done enough that the drawn out conclusion to the ritual feels like a payoff. For me, it felt tonally inconsistent and abrupt, not a natural progression towards an inevitable conclusion or even a well designed subversion of expectations. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A young woman and a damaged occultist risk their souls to perform a ritual.
Director
Liam Gavin
Producer
David Collins, Tim Dennison, Cormac Fox
Screenwriter
Liam Gavin
Production Co
Samson Films, Tall Man Films
Genre
Drama, Horror
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 28, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m