Dark Encounter

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Dark Encounter

2019

1h 38m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Mysterious lights appear in the sky one year after the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl.

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Alan Jones

Radio Times

Spun around an intriguing premise, Strathie's film cleverly draws on genre staples such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind as he deflects attention away from the core twist and the ultimate reveal.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 11, 2021

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Amos Efrat

Film Threat

While I may feel the film is ultimately weighed down by this objective, to its credit, the twist finale totally sticks the landing and reveals that for all its desire to recreate, its strongest quality was its own finely crafted plotting.

Rated: 6/10

Jan 8, 2020

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

The film often feels gimmicky, especially when it's trying to push the emotions, but it's still involving.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 21, 2019

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

[Carl] Strathie succeeds in demonstrating his skill, but the result is rather overcooked.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 27, 2019

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Kat Hughes

THN

A haunting and cerebral spin on the alien abduction story, Dark Encounter gets under you skin to truly terrify you before offering some important things to think about.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 27, 2019

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Shaun Munro

Flickering Myth

Though competently acted, Dark Encounter is utterly airless as a piece of extraterrestrial thriller fiction.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 27, 2019

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Patrick B

Why would such advanced aliens travel across the universe to explain to a few simple animals how their offspring died? However good or bad the characters, setting, and emotion are, this blackhole in the plot is so massive that the rest got pulled into it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/08/25

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Ricardo d

A trilha sonora é belíssima. Os efeitos visuais convincentes, temos um bom trabalho de direção. A história tem uma premissa bonita com elementos figurativos que retratam a perda. Mas existe uma quebra no roteiro em alguns pontos que exigem um fechar de olhos e engolir a seco. Como por exemplo acreditar que tais seres, que no roteiro mostram-se extremamente longe de nós, se importam com uma situação de uma família? E ainda, precisamos de ajuda de fora para resolver nossos perrengues? Mas prefiro entender que tudo isso é figurativo.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/09/24

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Jeffrey P

Effectively creepy abduction horror, but spends a bit too much time going in circles with an invisible threat as it becomes convoluted. Some okay mystery and suspense keep it afloat in the second half despite it becoming melodramatic but the big reveal and conclusion muddy everything that preceded it.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/25/24

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Dane B. M

The pacing is so slowwww to induce a good nap. The acting is, well, put it this way, who is holding the strings? I wasn't terrified in the least. Their actions take forever. The critiques make me think it was the friends of the cast who wrote the reviews. Boring beyond belief.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/21/24

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Brad S

I really liked it. The twist was great. A well thought out movie that spent its budget wisely. Sure, it could have done with a few less characters, but it didn't hurt the story. One of those rare unknown movies that you're glad you stumbled upon, and those are hard to find.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/01/24

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Kalin D

This movie has no story. It's all just special effects. It being set in the "80s" has no relevance to anything. Also, don't get why we needed so many superfluous characters.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/10/24

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Synopsis

Mysterious lights appear in the sky one year after the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl.

Director: Carl Strathie
Screenwriter: Carl Strathie
Production Co: Goldfinch Studios
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2020
Runtime: 1h 38m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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