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Nothing In the Dark tells the intense tale of a little girl with an extremely acute fear of the dark...
One night, the girl (Emma Berwick; right) tries to convince her mother (Kimberly Kurus) to sleep with her instead of being left alone in her darkened room for the night. Chalking it up as |
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being only normal childhood fears and apprehensions, the mother leaves her daughter to face her own fears... alone. |
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"Just keep repeating to yourself," the mother advises to her daughter, "there's nothing in the dark... there's nothing in the dark... and all the bad things will disappear..."
Little does the mother know, a mischevious and malevolent specter (Rebecca Rose; left) appearing as a little girl adorned with a frightening pig mask, routinely visits her daughter every night after the lights are off, gleefully terroring her.
Now, armed only with a flashlight and her bed covers, the little girl must now come face-to-face with her phantom menace, but will she survive the night? |
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Shot in three weeks between the months of March/April 2005 in MiniDV PAL and running just under ten minutes, NOTHING IN THE DARK is a creepy and suspensful thrill which is starting to recieve some positive notice (reviews). Modeled in the best J-Horror and Lewton/Wise/Tourneur traditions of "less is more", the film discards the gratiuitous blood and gore for the much prefered implied terror. Stark B&W cinematography, shrill-inducing music score, and shadow-play suggest the horror, allowing the audience's imagination to get the best of themselves. |
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This short is only a taste of what is yet an unproduced feature length film by aspiring writer-director John Correll, Jr. |
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***In actuality, the short consists of the first minutes of the feature's script (changed mildly to stand as its own film), the scene serving asa prologue sequence that jump starts the story into action. It was was decided, in order to attempt to raise awareness to build funds, this scetion of the screenplay would be filmed to help illustrate to future potentional benefactors the filmmakers' vision. It would also serve its purpose in film festivals. |
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All photos and synopsis (c) DeadPan Films 2005 |
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