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Hold the Dark is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. It is based upon the novel of the same name by William Giraldi. The film stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. The film had its world premiere at ...
Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/20/24 Full Review Harry O The movie starts out slow, but intriguing, but by the end it makes no sense and leaves too many unanswered questions ...
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- Jeremy Saulnier
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- Jeffrey Wright
Hold the Dark: Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. With Beckam Crawford, Riley Keough, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Tayles. After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate her son in the Alaskan wilderness.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Jeremy Saulnier
- 2018-09-28
screenplay by Macon Blair. based on the book by William Giraldi. Cast: Jeffrey Wright as Russell Core. Alexander Skarsgård as Vernon Sloane. Riley Keough as Medora Sloane. James Bloor as the Werewolf. James Badge Dale as Donald Marium. Macon Blair as Shan.
- 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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Sep 22, 2018 · In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery. Jeremy Saulnier. Director. William Giraldi. Novel.
Sep 28, 2018 · The use of space and setting is actually the best quality of “Hold the Dark.”. Saulnier and Blair make Alaska feel like a place where any number of things can kill you—cold, wolves, or even the insanity brought on by too little sunlight. The always-great Riley Keough plays a resident named Medora Sloane, whose son disappears one day ...
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