Never After Dark

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Never After Dark

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A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi's experience. As she digs deeper into the house's past, a secret comes to light -- and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

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A chilling ghost story that deftly reimagines Japanese horror conventions, Never After Dark pairs Moeka Hoshi's compelling performance with elegant craftsmanship and slow-building, inexorable dread.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Mar 24

Hoshi’s deeply present, engaged performance is one of the main reasons 'Never After Dark’ works so well, but it’s also an undeniably well-made piece of horror filmmaking in terms of craft.

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Mar 14

3.5/5

Writer/Director Dave Boyle combines both ghosts and human monsters into his Japanese chiller, elevating a conventional atmospheric haunted house with a unique approach to the supernatural.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

Mar 14

It’s cold and coiled, like a snake in autumn, and its slow crawl towards a surprisingly violent end never seems less than earned or inevitable.

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Steve Erickson

Arts Fuse

Aug 11

Never After Dark spends much of its runtime establishing its atmosphere, but that effort lets it break its own rules.

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DarkSkyLady

DarkSkyLady Reviews

Aug 1

Never After Dark has moments that resemble many other films and shows, but still maintains a novel quality in that convergence as the ghost story goes from spooky to horrifying.

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James Hadfield

Japan Times

Jun 5

3/5

“Never After Dark” isn’t quite as original, but it offers some effective — and surprisingly heartfelt — chills.

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A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi's experience. As she digs deeper into the house's past, a secret comes to light -- and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

Director: Dave Boyle
Producer: Dave Boyle, Kento Kaku, Kosuke Tsutsumi
Screenwriter: Dave Boyle
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Signal181
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 44m

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