Coming Home in the Dark

Movie

2021

1h 33m

TV-MA

English

Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

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5.6

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A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

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Coming Home in the Dark

TV-MA

Movie

2021

1h 33m

English

Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Crime

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A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

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5.6

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Cast

Mandrake

Hoaggie

Jill

Tubs

Jordan

Maika

Paul

Kynan

Josh

Caleb

Jess

Male Tourist

Traffic Patrol Officer

Sam Carter

Ten Year Old Boy

Directed By: James Ashcroft

Written By: James Ashcroft, Eli Kent

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birdcages says...

3 years ago

the intensity and brutality of the first act of the film makes the rest of it drag on, but it's still a very good movie. definitely worth watching. daniel gillies and miriama mcdonald were amazing in particular as other comments have said.

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bäversvans says...

2 years ago

An well executed but finally unoriginal roadtrip of clichés. Everything you expect to happen will.

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mbze430 says...

one year ago

That sounded like a 13B Rotary engine

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Saint Pauly says...

8 months ago

Like accidently dropping your phone down a well, this is depressing yet frustrating and reaches some depths. This strong feature directorial debut by Kiwi James Ashcroft takes a turn for the worse when it becomes obvious the strangers who accost the family picnicking in the middle of New Zealand nowhere are not there by accident. Or are they? Coming Home in the Dark is torture porn reminiscent of Eden Lake and the Hitcher, though suffers from some ambiguity in the story and some WTFery in the action. Still, the movie moves along at a good place and the actors (especially Daniel Gillies as Mandrake) deliver, so the film ends with a cop out but ends up as a recommend.

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$hubes

4/10 2 years ago

Definitely not for everyone. While I love a good horror movie, I have to admit that I'm getting a bit jaded on the "man's inhumanity to man" genre (i.e. the entire _Saw_ franchise, _Hostel_ and a slew of others). While this was far from being as gruesome as the above-mentioned franchises, it's just More

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

4 years ago

The ruthless crime thriller “Coming Home in the Dark” opens with a brutal sequence of violence that sets the tone for the rest of the film. This is a tough one to watch because director James Ashcroft pulls no punches in showing the evil darkness that lurks within some men, and the tension grows More

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