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  1. Full Review. Critic's Name Brad Newsome Publication Sydney Morning Herald. The review. A grim, unsettling and ultimately forgettable Netflix horror flick that has a surprisingly high daytime body...

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    • What Happens in Hold The Dark's Ending
    • Medora and Vernon Were Brother & Sister
    • "The Dark" Has Made Humans Into Wolves
    • Russell Is Saved from The Dark
    • Hold The Dark's Real Meaning

    Thinking back to his first meeting with Medora, Russell deduces that she's hiding in a hot spring a few hours from the town which she described as "close as I can get to warmth." He and Donald fly up in a forming storm, but Vern's already beaten them there: he kills the chief and stalks Russell as he escapes towards the spring. Medora is indeed hid...

    The most important piece of information within that ambiguity is that, yes, Medora and Vernon Sloane were twin brother and sister. This is hinted at throughout the story - Medora says she never "met" Vern but always knew him, the Indian Hunter at the mine says the pair have the same hair and eyes, and a photo shows the two as children in a decidedl...

    Hold The Darkis set deep in the Alaskan mountains, in a village so isolated they view the police of a neighboring town as a threat and city Anchorage as not even part of Alaska. Medora finds a beach unimaginable and Cheeon has never heard of San Deigo. Meanwhile, Vern fights in Iraq but seems dazed by the conflict; at first assumed to be the onset ...

    We learn very little of Russell's life before going to Alaska, only that he's estranged from his wife and daughter, and is diving deep into his professional life with an apartment littered with various wolf paintings. In other words, he's in his own form of isolation, cut off from much of the real world in a psychological way just as the Sloanes ar...

    Like all of Saulnier's films, Hold The Dark is a brutal, unflinching look at life and death with tangible stakes. However, whereas Green Roomwas about the young accepting unavoidable mortality, there's something grander here. The importance of family, the passing of generations and relationships are present in many forms throughout the movie: Russe...

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  2. I just watched the best movie I’d seen in a long while, and was impassioned to write about it for two reasons: One to figure it out, and two it is criminally underrated. 5.6 IMDB 71% Rotten tomatoes with 33% user score. What frustrates me about a lot of the positive critic reviews is even if they like the movie they say the writing or story ...

  3. Sep 27, 2018 · Rating: 5 out of 5. Jeremy Saulnier Netflix Streaming. Paul Bradshaw. A grim, dark, oversized reminder of how good the director of Blue Ruin and Green Room really is.

  4. Oct 3, 2018 · As Vernon’s friend Cheeon (Julian Black Antelope, intense) reminds local cop Donald Marium (James Badge Dale, ever alert) in an exchange, there’s no way to stop “the call,” or the howl of death.

  5. Jul 6, 2022 · Netflix. Possibly the film's biggest plot twist is what we learn about the true nature of Medora and Vernon's relationship. While never explicitly stated, it is heavily implied that the two are...

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  7. Email to a friend Virginian indie talent Jeremy Saulnier’s grisly thrillers (Blue Ruin, Green Room) grow in scale and budget, but lose none of their darkness.

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