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Directed by Jack Heller
USA 2014
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Maiden Woods is a remote and quiet town of decent, hard-working people, but something stirs in the dark woods surrounding this isolated community. After a logging company decimates an area of the forest, a rash of increasingly violent and unexplainable events transpires. Sheriff Paul Shields (Kevin Durand) and his deputy (Lukas Haas) struggle to confront their own personal demons while facing down a new breed of raw terror that is possibly older than humanity itself… and much, much hungrier. ***
There’s certainly talent in Jack Heller’s fright film “Dark
Was the Night,” beginning with its cast. The busy TV actor Kevin Durand (“The
Strain” on FX, “Vikings” on History) — here playing a small-town New York
sheriff contending with a supernatural monster of Native American legend —
conveys tender sorrow and steely resolve with understated dexterity. |
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Theatrical Release: October 16th, 2014 (Screamfest Horror Film Festival)
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Review: Image Entertainment - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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| Distribution | Image Entertainment - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
| Runtime | 1:38:32.156 | |
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Disc Size: 21,513,909,546 bytes Feature Size: 18,704,117,760 bytes Average Bitrate: 19.98 Mbps Single-layered Blu-ray MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 3918 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3918 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) |
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Release Information: Disc Size: 17,565,884,258 bytes Feature Size: 17,106,757,632 bytes Average Bitrate: 21.95 Mbps Single-layered Blu-ray MPEG-4 AVC Video Edition Details:
• Behind the Scenes: A Trip to Maiden Woods (7:34) |
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were obtained directly from the Blu-ray disc. This Image Entertainment 1080P of Dark Was the Night is on a single-layered Blu-ray with a reasonable bitrate. The image has some strong detail - notable ion the films close-ups and the intentional desaturated look is well supported in 1080P . It is in the 2.4:1 aspect ratio and has some blue-leaning but I was pleased with the presentation which seemed consistent and far in advance of SD. Audio comes in a very strong DTS-Master 5.1 surround (24-bit) track in the original English language. It has some strong separations and intense depth notable in the score by Darren Morze (The Vanishing of Sidney Hall). There are optional English subtitles (see sample below) on Image Entertainment's Region 'A' Blu-ray. Image Entertainment has given us a short video; Behind the Scenes: A Trip to Maiden Woods with footage of the shoot plus an 8-minute Q+A with the cast of Dark was the Night answering questions. I really enjoyed Dark Was the Night . I think a lot f critics missed the homage aspects. This was very similar to a 50's 'B' creature-feature with a lot of build, secluded location, and you rarely see the monster till the conclusion. There is a side-story of the Sherriff missing his child but I was enamored with the small town feel, the evolving mystery and the one-dimensional characters. I've watched Dark Was the Night a few times and I never tire of it. This is a keeper film-on-Blu-ray, imo. |
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