In a Dark Place (2006)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

I have to say probably the worst film i have watched in years. The story was viable but the editing,production and watch ability were nothing short of Diabolical. I was really shocked by the quality of actors like Tara Fitzgerald would even consider being in this failed experiment of a movie but times are hard i suppose. If anyone has considered watching this please don't waist 90 minutes of your life because you will never get them back. Overall a disaster of a movie which if made correctly and the right editing could have been enjoyable,but this was nothing more than a washout. I advise not to waste your time.

this movie is an absolute stinker.It has absolutely nothing to commend it.The acting is uninvolved and incapable of involving the audience.It feels as if the actors were going through the motions and didn't care one jot about the script or characters.There is no suspense, excitement or drama in the film.I was completely bored and frankly confused at times.I learned from reading other user comments that the movie was inspired by a book. Perhaps if I had read the book I would have cared more about what was happening on screen. I don't think its worth the effort of finding out.

Assumedly an adaptation from the XIX century novella "The Turn of the Screw", written by Henry James, this film IN A DARK PLACE is a modern view of that story. I must confess I hadn't heard about this novel before watch this film but as far as I could read on many texts on the Internet the movie really seems to follow the main plot lines of the original novella, with just some contextual and modern adjustments. However there's a subplot about child abuse in the film that I suppose to not exist in the Henry James' story. As far I as learned the main topic of the Gothic novel are the ghosts, not being clear, though, if they really exist or if they just dwell in the governess mind. About the original novel it seems to still the doubt (and the discussion!) if it's a straight ghost story or a murder story with a lunatic, and mentally deranged, governess. This ambiguity is a bit lost in the movie because the director seems to choose one side, when he increases this subplot about the abuses. I think he clearly induces the viewer to think the governess is insane, and even provides her an alibi: her own anguish caused by the abuses she suffered. So, in this movie, the ghosts really seem to exist only in her mind... I read somewhere that even the title of the movie is an allusion to that, as if "the dark place" was after all her mind! About the movie itself and its production I think it has good and bad features: Good: - The music score; the dream and/or hallucination scenes; the seductive and mysterious atmosphere, the setting, the acting from Tara Fitzgerald and from both kids; the ending. Bad: - The clichéd and old-fashioned whispering voices (at parts they are even ridiculous)!; the ghosts' make up (it seems to be taken from a B-series zombies movie)!; the acting from Leelee Sobieski (it's very inconstant, if she does good scenes, with a nice acting, in others she's terrible. But I must say she's grown as a woman!:); some suspense scenes, which could have been done better.

I agree this movie can be a little confusing but if you love "The turn of the screw", then this movie will make perfect sense and you'll most likely love it. I do agree, it's not a movie for everyone and if you compare it to todays horror standards, it won't hold up. Just to give anyone who hasn't seen it an idea of what the movie is like, imagine a classic black and white horror movie that was remade by David Lynch (Lost Highway). It's a bit creepy, often makes no sense, you get the feeling that your simply watching a person lose their mind, but you're watching it from their point of view. Thats the best way I can think to describe it. Enjoy!