Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Justin P. Lange’s The Dark is an ingenious reinvention of the zombie genre, bringing a new rage monster to the cinematic screen and exhibiting what anger and fear truly is. This is a film you will not soon be forgetting.
In The Dark, a flesh-eating young girl haunts the woods where she was murdered, as a murderer herself. When she discovers an abused kid inside the trunk of a car, her decision to let the boy live throws her existence into upheaval.
Quinn Shephard’s Blame is an admirable debut feature, utilizing the framework of The Crucible to delve into themes of adolescent angst, social politics, and high school drama.