Stars: Laura Mae Shafer, David G.B. Brown, Veronica Cartwright, Zachary Levine, Seraphina Anne Zorn, Tiffany Burns | Written by Douglas Schulze, Jonathan D’Ambrosio | Directed by Douglas Schulze
[Note: With the film available on DVD in the UK now here's a repost of our review of The Dark Below - originally posted last March in time for the films Us limited release]
Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) is on the run from a serial killer (David G.B. Brown). I say run, I mean swim. She was drugged, dressed in scuba gear and then plunged in to the depths of a nearby frozen lake to drown. Unfortunately for the killer however, Rachel is something of a seasoned diver and won’t go down (or should that be sank?) without a fight. With her killer stalking her on the surface, Rachel must not only constantly outwit him, but also survive the freezing temperatures as well as literally keeping a float.
Now before you call me a cop out regarding my somewhat brief synopsis,...
[Note: With the film available on DVD in the UK now here's a repost of our review of The Dark Below - originally posted last March in time for the films Us limited release]
Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) is on the run from a serial killer (David G.B. Brown). I say run, I mean swim. She was drugged, dressed in scuba gear and then plunged in to the depths of a nearby frozen lake to drown. Unfortunately for the killer however, Rachel is something of a seasoned diver and won’t go down (or should that be sank?) without a fight. With her killer stalking her on the surface, Rachel must not only constantly outwit him, but also survive the freezing temperatures as well as literally keeping a float.
Now before you call me a cop out regarding my somewhat brief synopsis,...
- 3/20/2018
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
She's stuck swimming below the ice in subzero temperatures, but her biggest threat watches from above... In today's second Horror Highlights, we have VOD release details for Douglas Schulze's new horror thriller The Dark Below, as well as world premiere details for Lycan and information on three horror releases from Terror Films.
The Dark Below Home Media Release Details: The Dark Below is now in Redbox and can also be watched on Comcast On Demand, iTunes, Direct TV, Google Play, and other digital platforms. To learn more, visit the film on iTunes.
"For his fourth and most daring film, director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) brings us The Dark Below. This tense, fear driven film utilizes minimal dialog, portrays a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface."
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Lycan World Premiere: Join cast...
The Dark Below Home Media Release Details: The Dark Below is now in Redbox and can also be watched on Comcast On Demand, iTunes, Direct TV, Google Play, and other digital platforms. To learn more, visit the film on iTunes.
"For his fourth and most daring film, director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) brings us The Dark Below. This tense, fear driven film utilizes minimal dialog, portrays a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface."
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Lycan World Premiere: Join cast...
- 8/15/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The premise that director Douglas Schulze and co-writer Jonathan D’Ambrosio have cooked up for their film The Dark Below is a bold one. This 75-minute thriller is dialogue-free, save one line at the start setting everything in motion, the story instead unfolding as a series of expressions through current duress and visually informative flashbacks while David Bateman‘s energetic score blasts you into the correct state of unease. Performances must be a bit over-the-top, with sight and sound bordering on manipulative, in order for it all to work, but we hope the result will be good enough to forgive any moments where these inevitabilities go awry. And for a time it is, our intrigue at what’s happening initially getting the better of disbelief. Sadly, that time is too short.
Kudos to the filmmakers for throwing us into the fire with frame one, though. I was genuinely interested because...
Kudos to the filmmakers for throwing us into the fire with frame one, though. I was genuinely interested because...
- 3/16/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Stars: Laura Mae Shafer, David G.B. Brown, Veronica Cartwright, Zachary Levine, Seraphina Anne Zorn, Tiffany Burns | Written by Douglas Schulze, Jonathan D’Ambrosio | Directed by Douglas Schulze
“Silence is the most powerful scream.”
Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) is on the run from a serial killer (David G.B. Brown). I say run, I mean swim. She was drugged, dressed in scuba gear and then plunged in to the depths of a nearby frozen lake to drown. Unfortunately for the killer however, Rachel is something of a seasoned diver and won’t go down (or should that be sank?) without a fight. With her killer stalking her on the surface, Rachel must not only constantly outwit him, but also survive the freezing temperatures as well as literally keeping a float.
Now before you call me a cop out regarding my somewhat brief synopsis, let me just tell you that The Dark Below...
“Silence is the most powerful scream.”
Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) is on the run from a serial killer (David G.B. Brown). I say run, I mean swim. She was drugged, dressed in scuba gear and then plunged in to the depths of a nearby frozen lake to drown. Unfortunately for the killer however, Rachel is something of a seasoned diver and won’t go down (or should that be sank?) without a fight. With her killer stalking her on the surface, Rachel must not only constantly outwit him, but also survive the freezing temperatures as well as literally keeping a float.
Now before you call me a cop out regarding my somewhat brief synopsis, let me just tell you that The Dark Below...
- 3/14/2017
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Pedestrian execution undercuts the high concept of Douglas Schulze's near-silent horror film about a young woman trapped in a freezing lake by a determined killer. While its intriguing setup sounds like it could make for a provocative and original thriller, The Dark Below never lives up to its promise, although it earns points for originality.
The story begins with Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) — at least that's her name as provided in the credits — being attacked by a burly man (David G.B. Brown) who strangles her, forces a drug down her throat and puts her in a wet suit....
The story begins with Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer) — at least that's her name as provided in the credits — being attacked by a burly man (David G.B. Brown) who strangles her, forces a drug down her throat and puts her in a wet suit....
- 3/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Parade Deck Films have announced the upcoming theatrical release of festival favorite The Dark Below. Directed by Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) the film is a tense, fear driven film that utilizes minimal dialog to tell the story of a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface.
With its bone-chilling soundtrack by multiplatinum recording artist Eric Bobo and a searing supporting performance by Veronica Cartwright (Alien, 24: Legacy), The Dark Below, which played several high profile genre film festivals – including Fantasia International Film Festival, FrightFest UK, Monsters of Film in Sweden and Toronto After Dark – will hit select Us theaters on March 10th. Check out the trailer and poster below:...
With its bone-chilling soundtrack by multiplatinum recording artist Eric Bobo and a searing supporting performance by Veronica Cartwright (Alien, 24: Legacy), The Dark Below, which played several high profile genre film festivals – including Fantasia International Film Festival, FrightFest UK, Monsters of Film in Sweden and Toronto After Dark – will hit select Us theaters on March 10th. Check out the trailer and poster below:...
- 3/2/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The horror is literally bone-chilling in The Dark Below, Douglas Schulze's thriller set on—and beneath—a frozen lake, and viewers will have a chance to see the movie in select theaters this March courtesy of Parade Deck Films.
Press Release: Parade Deck Films to release Survival Thriller The Dark Below. In Select Theaters March 10, 2017
Parade Deck Films is excited to announce the upcoming theatrical release of festival favorite The Dark Below.
For his fourth and most daring film, director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) brings us The Dark Below. This tense, fear driven film utilizes minimal dialog, portrays a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface.
“I got involved with this project because Doug Schulze knows genre and he knows film. In todays environment, The Dark Below is different. It is a...
Press Release: Parade Deck Films to release Survival Thriller The Dark Below. In Select Theaters March 10, 2017
Parade Deck Films is excited to announce the upcoming theatrical release of festival favorite The Dark Below.
For his fourth and most daring film, director Douglas Schulze (Mimesis, Dark Fields) brings us The Dark Below. This tense, fear driven film utilizes minimal dialog, portrays a woman (Lauren Mae Shafer) struggling for survival beneath a frozen lake while a serial killer (David G.B. Brown) stalks her from the surface.
“I got involved with this project because Doug Schulze knows genre and he knows film. In todays environment, The Dark Below is different. It is a...
- 1/9/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Here's a new kind of chiller, for real. The Dark Below, which screened for the first time ever at Fantasia 2015, features a woman trapped in a frozen lake for nearly the whole length of the film. It was shot in sub-zero temperatures, and as someone who can't stand that kind of cold, I find it amazing that anyone would agree to work on the film in the first place. That also means that the entire premise is that much more horrific.Directed by Douglas Schulze, who co-wrote with Jonathan D'Ambrosio, The Dark Below takes its time unfolding the narrative in clever ways. Rachel (Lauren Mae Shafer in a relentlessly physical performance) is a woman who's been choked and drugged by Ben (David G.B. Brown), then...
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- 7/28/2015
- Screen Anarchy
*there are spoilers here. Director: Douglas Schulze. Writers: Douglas Schulze and Joshua Wagner. Cast: Allen Maldonado, Sid Haig, Lauren Mae Shafer, Courtney Gains, Taylor Piedmonte, David G.B. Brown, Jana Thompson, and Gavin Grazer. Douglas Schulze's (Hellmaster) latest horror feature is titled Mimesis. Mimesis simply means imitation. In this film, Mimesis is defined as life imitating art. Schulze manages to introduce a social message amongst all of the cannibalism, eye gougings and pitchfork murders. This message involves media and its portrayal of violence and its relation to real life violence. This message is certainly relevant now, but Mimesis is also an entertaining outing. The film is clever and the conflict is well written and well disguised. The film's story initially follows Duane (Allen Maldonado) and Russell (Taylor Piedmonte). These two are friends and they head off to a horror convention. Here, they meet the raccoon eyed Judith (Lauren Mae Shafer), who.
- 2/11/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Coming to DVD and Blu-ray February 12 from Anchor Bay Entertainment, Mimesis follows a group of horror fans who accept invitations to a late-night party at a remote farmhouse, and the next morning find themselves under siege by zombies—and realize they’re all dressed like the characters from George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead. Douglas Schulze directed from a script he wrote with Joshua Wagner, and the cast includes Allen Maldonado, Lauren Mae Shafer, Taylor Piedmonte, David G.B. Brown, Jana Thompson and Gavin Grazer, with appearances by horror veterans Sid Haig, Courtney Gains and Night’s cemetery ghoul, the late Bill Hinzman. The discs will include audio commentary by Schulze and Wagner; retail prices are $22.98 for the DVD, $24.99 for the Blu-ray.
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- 1/22/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Coming to DVD and Blu-ray February 12 from Anchor Bay Entertainment, Mimesis follows a group of horror fans who accept invitations to a late-night party at a remote farmhouse, and the next morning find themselves under siege by zombies—and realize they’re all dressed like the characters from George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead. Douglas Schulze directed from a script he wrote with Joshua Wagner, and the cast includes Allen Maldonado, Lauren Mae Shafer, Taylor Piedmonte, David G.B. Brown, Jana Thompson and Gavin Grazer, with appearances by horror veterans Sid Haig, Courtney Gains and Night’s cemetery ghoul, the late Bill Hinzman. The discs will include audio commentary by Schulze and Wagner; retail prices are $22.98 for the DVD, $24.99 for the Blu-ray.
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- 1/22/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Coming to DVD and Blu-ray February 12 from Anchor Bay Entertainment, Mimesis follows a group of horror fans who accept invitations to a late-night party at a remote farmhouse, and the next morning find themselves under siege by zombies—and realize they’re all dressed like the characters from George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead. Douglas Schulze directed from a script he wrote with Joshua Wagner, and the cast includes Allen Maldonado, Lauren Mae Shafer, Taylor Piedmonte, David G.B. Brown, Jana Thompson and Gavin Grazer, with appearances by horror veterans Sid Haig, Courtney Gains and Night’s cemetery ghoul, the late Bill Hinzman. The discs will include audio commentary by Schulze and Wagner; retail prices are $22.98 for the DVD, $24.99 for the Blu-ray.
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- 1/22/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Mimesis is set to pay homage to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead February 12th, on DVD. In the film, seven strangers find themselves living out the real life horrors from Romero's groundbreaking feature. These character must survive a zombie apocalypse, on a scale not seen before. This award winning zombie film will be released on both DVD and Blu-Ray. And, the release will offer a special feature or two. Rated restricted, Mimesis will host an audio commentary from writers Douglas Schulze and Joshua Wagner. More details on the release are listed below. Release Date: February 12th (DVD, Blu-Ray). Director: Douglas Schulze. Writers: Douglas Schulze and Joshua Wagner. Cast: Allen Maldonado, Sid Haig, Lauren Mae Shafer, Courtney Gains, Taylor Piedmonte, David G.B. Brown, and Jana Thompson. The trailer for Mimesis is here: *fans will also have the opportunity to experience Mimesis at special event screenings across the country.
- 1/3/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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