Kadan rockett and dark skies 2018
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As she’s peering out at the poor dead thing another bird smacks into the window. When you see the name J.K. Simmons (FOR LOVE OF THE GAME) on the credits it’s easy to guess he’ll be a UFO expert who comes in late in the game. The director was Scott Stewart, a visual FX veteran (MARS ATTACKS!, THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, THE HOST, RED CLIFF, co-founder of The Orphanage) who broke into directing with the weird angel-related action-horror movie LEGION (2010).
That seemed possible when the family started buying shotguns and boarding up the house near the end. The concept is creepy as fuck but I believe that a minimum 50% of the scene’s success is down to Russell’s performance, that her little yips of fright sound like real-person-responding-to-being-startled and not movie scream. Fuck off, aliens. Then entire flocks of birds.
One is when Lacy is doing a walkthrough to sell a house but goes into a trance and starts mindlessly headbutting a window. Very upsetting! Young Sammy seemingly has a new invisible friend and Jesse is on the cusp of puberty, his mind solely on the opposite sex. Simmons – Edwin Pollard
Rich Hutchman – Mike Jessop
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Plot According to IMDb
As the Barrett family’s peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them, one which may have arrived from beyond the stars.
Inertia’s Insight
A rare entry in the Blum archive, Dark Skies looks from the stars to suburbia, as a nuclear family are haunted by an unknown presence that is not of this world…
On the outside, the Barrett’s are the perfect family: happily married Lacy and Daniel are the perfect parents to Jesse and Sammy, with a great house, great group of friends and an all-round great life.
I really wonder how she does that – I bet they had to surprise her with the timing of the noise but it would still be hard to do with such authenticity when you know it’s coming.
I’ve noticed this before in the movie ANTLERS – Russell really knows how to anchor a crazy-shit-happening-in-a-small-town movie like this. Come back, Scott Stewart.
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They all have their normal human difficulties they’re going through and then one night Lacy gets up and finds the kitchen completely trashed, like an animal got in.
Recently I rewatched PRIEST (2011) for a podcast – I’ll link to it when the episode goes up (here it is: Vampire Videos #109). It could’ve been fun, might’ve felt like a more satisfying climax, but DARK SKIES remains the slightly less pulpy, more serious-minded movie it was advertised as – a mid-budget programmer, just aiming for something a little fresher and better executed than you might expect from the genre.
Since then he’s directed the pilot for a TV continuation of LEGION called Dominion and a segment of the anthology HOLIDAYS, but only one full length feature: the close encounter movie DARK SKIES (2013). The scene where she walks in to Sammy’s bedroom is perfection, as the shaky handheld camera jolts as much as Lacy when she sees what lurks inside, but the scene where Daniel is stood outside, mouth agape… Reach for the pillow!
Keri Russell is the standout here for me.
It was definitely a hit for its budget, but being more normal meant it did not make a huge impression. These people have lives.
To me this seems like a very POLTERGEIST-inspired movie, and once you realize that you can see there’s a thin line between the supernatural and the science-fictional.