Available today on DVD, Digital and On Demand is the psychological horror film, The Darkness of the Road.
The film stars Najarra Townsend (Siri), Leah Lauren (Iris) and Gwyneth Glover (Eve).
Siri and her daughter are on a road trip. They stop at a gas station so that Siri can pick up a few things. There they meet a hitchhiker named Iris. Iris convinces Siri to take her with them.
The trio travel down a dark, desolate road. There are no homes, no street lights and no other cars in sight.
Siri’s car breakdowns. They also realize that there is something lurking in the darkness. To make matters worse, Eve disappears and neither women knows what happened to her. She was sleeping in the backseat.
Did the thing lurking in the darkness take her? Did she wander off? Did she get out at the gas station and Siri left her there without realizing it? No one really knows.
Siri and Iris try desperately to call for help, as well as to get the car started.
As if that wasn’t stressful enough, Siri keeps having unusual flashbacks and is seeing things that Iris can’t.
What in the world is going on? Is what they are experiencing real, or is something else at play? And where is Eve?
To find out the answers to these questions, purchase or rent The Darkness of the Road. Look for it where ever movies are sold/rented.
When I first saw the trailer for this film (see below), I honestly thought the creature was the cryptid known as the Rake. It sort of resembles one.
As I was watching this film, “I” started to question what was real and what wasn’t, I think more so than the characters on the screen. After a while I felt like I was “tripping” on something.
The Rake-look being wasn’t really a monster, or was it? Was is real, or was Siri and/or Iris imagining it. If they were, how come it looked the same to both of them.
I got totally lost watching this film. I couldn’t understand what I was watching. I’m sure there is some logical explanation for the ending of the film, but I have yet to figure it out. Not only that, just when you think the film ends, and you can try and piece things together, the film continues. It was like it was never going to end (sad to say).
I cannot tell you what this film was about. Maybe I need to re-watch it. I’m not sure.
If you like jump scares and you are creeped out by “things that go bump in the night,” then you’ll probably have fun with this film. Die hard horror genre fans like me will probably be equally as baffled as to what the film was really about.
The cinematography I feel is the star of this film. Often there were shots of the lone car on a dark road with nothing to see except the flashes of lightening off in the distance. There was even a really cool shot of the top of the car (from high up) and all you see if the top of the car and total darkness. Then the camera zooms in on it. That is a really cool shot.
I wasn’t really a fan of this film. I think it I understood it a bit more, that could change things. But right now I’m still confused as to what it was really about, and for that reason, I wasn’t overly keen on the film.
The acting was good, but the story has as many holes in it as Swiss cheese.
Below is the film’s trailer for your enjoyment.
Kimberly
*I received a free screener link in order to do this review. There was no compensation. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.