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- 2015
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 21 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 21 m
Summary While home alone under house arrest, a teenager undergoes a terrifying brush with the supernatural.
Directed By: Paul Solet
Written By: Mike Nguyen Le
- 2015
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 21 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 21 m
Dark Summer
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3.5
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Summary While home alone under house arrest, a teenager undergoes a terrifying brush with the supernatural.
Directed By: Paul Solet
Written By: Mike Nguyen Le
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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44% Mixed
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4 Reviews
56% Negative
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5 Reviews
Teen house-arrest thriller Dark Summer gets out ahead of any ripping-off-“Disturbia” talk with an early Shia LaBeouf joke. But its sleepy, hallucinogenic aesthetic is an entirely different — and rather less engaging — style, anyway.
Eventually succumbs to the weight of plot contrivance.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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As an exercise in atmosphere, this claustrophobic creeper does a lot with a little, even if the movie winds up providing just superficial shivers.
The cacophony of visions, broken mirrors, and mutilations only points to the ghost in the machine respecting The Craft as its spirit animal.
Despite Mr. Stormare’s valiant efforts, “Dark Summer” (directed by Paul Solet) feels listlessly plotted and insipidly performed.
While competently made, Dark Summer makes no effort to lend its characters any psychological complexity, or even much distinguishing personality. Nor are the proceedings very scary.
The true mistreatment is directed toward the moviegoer, who has to endure enough stale pseudo-shocks, empty atmospherics, explanatory mumbo-jumbo and personality-free acting that it's hard not to think of viewing Dark Summer as running-time served.
Production Company
Campfire,
ContentFilm International
Release Date Jan 9, 2015
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Some crushes last forever
