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Feb 20, 2013 · Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton play Lacy and Daniel Barrett, an Arizona couple with two sons and money woes — he is out of work and she is a real-estate agent charged with unloading a house so ugly that even the folks on HGTV's Curb Appeal would find it too much of a challenge.
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Feb 22, 2013 · Dark Skies writer director Scott Stewart has a solid cast, an interesting premise, and some admirable ambitions, but he can't figure out what to do with any of them, and the result is a dull,...
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- Scott Stewart
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- Keri Russell
Feb 22, 2013 · Dark Skies is quite unsettling and disturbing that plays more like a psychological thriller than a horror film. It burrows alot from films like Signs, Paranormal Activity and Poltergeist but it doesn't quite hit it out of the park as well.
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Dark Skies is a pretty standard haunting/possession-type horror movie with aliens as the monsters. While it is quite nicely done - there is a decent build up and some good made-you-jump moments - it comes pretty much straight out of the cliché store.
- Aliens in America.
- Verdict
By Eric Goldman
Posted: Feb 22, 2013 8:00 am
Dark Skies tells the story of Lacy (Keri Russell) and Daniel Barrett (Josh Hamilton), a typical American couple living in the suburbs with their kids, Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sam (Kadan Rockett). But things begin to turn quite atypical for them when strange disturbances in the middle of the night quickly begin to escalate – from signs of an animal getting into their fridge, to their furniture being bizarrely arranged into an unbelievably balanced tower to family photos vanishing from inside frames. Is it a stalker? Is one of the children disturbed? Or, could it be… aliens?
Writer/director Scott Stewart (Legion, Priest) gives the film a recession-era bent by introducing us to the Barretts in the midst of some hard times. Daniel has been laid off and can’t seem to find a new job, leading to growing tension between him and Lacy. Russell (currently kicking ass, both dramatically and physically, on The Americans) and Hamilton (Louie fans may remember him as the obnoxious neighbor Louie got high with) are both very good here creating a believable relationship and the strain the two are already under before things get freaky.
As the film progresses and events grow much more overtly bizarre -- including some very troubling behavior by birds that can be seen in the trailer -- Stewart does a solid job building tension and there are some well done jumps and creepy moments. It helps that Russell and Hamilton are supported by two strong child actors in Goyo and Rockett, helping to invest in this family.
But Dark Skies falters when it moves beyond that family unit. There are some notably cheesy moments involving the requisite skeptics in stories like this – the local cop or guy from the alarm company who are there to roll their eyes and give the “well, it must have been this” explanation for the crazy-ass stuff happening in this house. It doesn’t help matters that some of these peripheral characters are performed in particularly hammy ways.
Keri Russell leads a solid cast in the "aliens among us" thriller Dark Skies, which has some decent scares but is marred by hammy minor characters and a bad ending.
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