Friday 16 October 2020

And Soon the Darkness (2010) - Not a great advert for Argentina 

Once again Hollywood reminds us that if we act `naughty' (you know what I mean, right?) and don't *ahem* play safe with strangers, we deserve a grisly end.

Straight-laced Stephanie (Amber Heard) and her best friend, drunken harlot Ellie (Odette Annable) are holidaying in Agentina in a small town where the locals frequently give each other random glances of morbid knowingness. There they meet a couple of creepy guys and Karl Urban (who, for some reason, seems to act like he's embarrassed to be in this film). Sadly, Ellie is a wild-child and plays the price when she disappears mysteriously.

The cops are no help (when are they ever in these filmic cases?!) so Amber has to go it alone to find her.

And that's about it. You've probably seen it before. It's average and there are not too many surprises, only plenty of moments where you shout, "Hit him again!" at the screen when one of the girls smacks the bad guy over the head with a blunt object ONCE then just runs away, leaving him to get straight back up and come after her.

Oh, and for the guys - Amber Heard strips down to a bikini (as she seems to in most her movies - is she contractually obliged, or something?) at about the half hour mark. You may want to turn it off after that.

6/10 May just keep you awake if Freddy Kruger was haunting your nights

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