73% Tweet. Guess that’s what happens when the minds behind multiple Saw sequels, three Feast flicks, and The Collector franchise take cosplaying to a disturbingly enraged level. To be fair, Perry Mattfeld's Murphy isn't actually a detective, at least not a licensed and bonded detective. Shocker! Una buena serie quizá le falten cosas pero la verdad no sé puede puede catalogar como mala. It’s a school year like no other. (Blumhouse Television and Hulu have partnered for a monthly horror anthology series titled, , set to release a full holiday-themed feature the first Friday of every month. The title is particularly apt for the direction the “Into the Dark” series takes this month. , the latter of which answers one of my biggest complaints about last season: embrace holiday horrors for Krampus’ sake. This is a role that producers ultimately decided didn't require an actor with any experience and yet they still went with Mattfeld, a basically unknown sighted actor who is … fine. There have been extreme lows (“Down”) and highs (“Culture Shock”), but most of the entries have been somewhere in the middle. Smart series has blood, gore, some iffy messages. Dark, violent film-based show is better than it has to be. Creator: Corinne Kingsbury The only part of the show that I actually liked without real reservations is the Dean/Chloe father-daughter relationship and the growing friendship between Murphy and Chloe. When the cops come to investigate, they don't find a body, making them very skeptical of the crime's lone blind, drunk witness, though one of the detectives (Rich Sommer's Dean) has a newly blind daughter (Calle Walton's Chloe) and doesn't hesitate to trade small favors for limited mentorship. Then their colonial brothers and sisters start arriving, overtaking Anna’s household. Husband Shane (, ) are about to experience their first Thanksgiving meal prepared by *actual* pilgrims – well, historically accurate pilgrims played by actors. About Our Ads The aforementioned wishbone becomes a weapon, food a diversion, and gore a method of spoiling what fresh harvests hath provided. Characters gruesomely mutilate and dispose of a dead body; we don't see the body being chopped up and dissolved, but they narrate their actions "Guys, the skin is coming off! Pilgrim’s handling of Cody, Anna, and family dynamics are hammed up to accentuate what exposed wounds will be exploited by Ethan. It's not good, but it's a completely original setting for a show and a backdrop that, if properly handled, could have been funny and offered a variety of week-to-week plotlines, plus puppies. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. September 2019 auf dem Pay-TV-Sender AXN statt. Affiliate links used when available. The way this turn plays out feels disturbingly punitive to Jennifer. Thank you for your support. Created by Blumhouse Productions, known for its low-budget, smarter-than-usual horror fare, INTO THE DARK is an anthology series of movie-length episodes, each taking on a different terrible topic: a hitman who loses his latest dead body on Halloween, a woman who suspects she's in danger as she nears the anniversary of her mother's death. The aforementioned wishbone becomes a weapon, food a diversion, and gore a method of spoiling what fresh harvests hath provided. A testament to the cultish scenario Marcus Dunstan creates, Peter Giles leads, and the diabolical role-playing they unleash all before Patience’s dinner bell tolls. It's just very difficult and nobody here — that's even with the very capable Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) directing the pilot — is up to the challenge of blending the search for a possibly dead friend with a B-story in which Jess worries her sexy bi girlfriend (Humberly Gonzalez) might miss penises and goes in search of a good strap-on, which is only funny because the show clearly discovered very late in shooting the episode that you can't actually show a strap-on dildo on The CW. Los geht es im Oktober mit Halloween. Viewers will relate to all the wincing. Into The Dark ’s inaugural season concludes with a whimper in Hannah Macpherson ’s Pure. TWITTER franchise take cosplaying to a disturbingly enraged level. ) Join now. A story about an alcoholic, blind nymphomaniac detective and her trusted guide dog sounds like a bad series somebody would pitch in a Hollywood satire, and after watching three episodes of In the Dark, I remain, well, in the dark about how this came to be a real thing that The CW is airing in the actual TV season and not something a character from L.A. Complex was auditioning for as a gag. With Aurora Perrineau, Diane Sellers, Dylan Arnold, Katie Wilson. Reviews Into the Dark: The Current Occupant Brian Tallerico July 17, 2020. It feels like this is a subject matter – stalking and obsession – that could have been played for social commentary but this is a script stuck in horror’s past and even a relatively charming performance by Martinez and workmanlike direction from Stamm (“The Last Exorcism”) can’t save the screenplay’s many problems. It's a job she mostly sleeps through, having spent her nights getting drunk and picking up strangers at her favorite bar. This is the kind of holiday committal I’ve been craving from. YOUTUBE. Ethan (. ) Cody apprehensively questions the lunatics committed to their parts, and she has sufficient reason. Pilgrim is an evil Thanksgiving tale with all the death-soaked trimmings. Daniel Fienberg As a preacher of the good holiday horror word, Thanksgiving’s scant offerings leave my stomach rumbling. You don't meet guys like this every day. 13. Of course, it was silly to presume this was a pattern that would continue over the next eight, but the very vaguely Valentine’s Day-themed “Into the Dark: Down” is the worst entry yet in the series, a disappointment on multiple levels. Violence and gore is heavy and sometimes sexually tinged: a dead body wrapped in plastic is dragged around, a man's throat is slit with gouts of blood, a man holds a knife to a woman's throat while she flirts with him, a character is stabbed in the head and suddenly killed. or if the murder mystery was always there and somehow nobody looked at what was on the page or what was shot in the pilot and said, "This is bad and unnecessary, why do we need it?" 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Die als Anthologie konzipierte Serie besteht aus zwölf Episoden in Spielfilmlänge, die jeweils monatlich veröffentlicht werden und je einen in diesem Monat liegenden besonderen Tag behandeln. Slather horror cornucopias thick with gravy and cranberry sauce. This Thanksgiving, Anna (Courtney Henggeler) invites surprise guests in the form of 1620s reenactment players who simulate America’s inaugural feast. analysis began similarly; me lamenting over how Turkey Day has largely been ignored by genre filmmakers. Sitemap | ), As a preacher of the good holiday horror word, Thanksgiving’s scant offerings leave my stomach rumbling. Brian Tallerico is the Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. angle here, you're basically saying that if you had your way, blind actors would never work outside of token supporting roles. stuff their bird of a script with plentiful Thanksgiving notes from costuming to Ethan’s old-world accent to culinary preparation. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. NYFF 2020: Night of the Kings, Atarrabi and Mikelats, The Salt of Tears, An Open Letter to Cuties Director Maïmouna Doucouré from Female Filmmakers, Excellent Performances Lead Hulu's Disturbing Horror Series Monsterland, The Walking Dead: World Beyond Shows Few Signs of Life. Which new and returning TV shows are worth your time this fall? There’s something so unsettling about Ethan getting called on his bullshit (incorrectly stating what fish he caught off the Mayflower), only to double-down on beliefs in punishment. gasps the dazzled host. A new low point for the relatively stronger second season of Hulu and Blumhouse’s series of original films, “Into the Dark: The Current Occupant” takes an already-thin idea and hammers it into a numbing, aggressive, ugly paste and then force feeds it to you. Blumhouse knows to make a lot of a little, and the grim city locations and well-written interactions between cast members make "The Body" fun to watch. Parents: Set preferences and get age-appropriate recommendations with Common Sense Media Plus. Murphy doesn't even especially like her dog Pretzel (Levi, blameless here), whose responsibilities are limited to the occasional walk and to watching Murphy boff her various pickups. Whereupon she follows him around like a puppy and tries to kiss him. But its willingness to play its own game, to be tawdry and cheap in a streaming landscape in which bigger and bolder statements are made, generally, over the course of stately 10- or 13-episode seasons, feels like something unusual, something worth … Henry starts to believe that he’s actually the President of the United States, who survived an assassination attempt but is being held captive in a psychiatric bunker under the White House by a power-hungry Vice President, who he believes is a shady man in black (Ezra Buzzington) that has been seen around the facility.