**SPOILERS** Very similar to the 1967 thriller "Wait Until Dark" about a blind women being stalked in her Greenwich Village basement apartment by a trio of drug dealers. The movie "Lost in the Dark" has a young girl Amy Toliver, Mae Whitman, involved in a somewhat same and terrifying dilemma.
Alone in her house Amy has only her pet cat Baxter to keep her company as a major storm roars outside. It just happens that a number of dangerous criminals break out of their prison bus and are out looking for shelter until the storm blows over. The shelter two of the escaped convicts brothers and fellow armed robbers and convicted murders Roy & Jared Evens, Jason-Gray Standford & Teach Grant, end up finding is Amy's house.
Amy sensing that there's something wrong in the house tries to get help by calling her boyfriend David Harris, Matthew Smalley, as well as Sheriff's Deputy Mike Webb, Patrick Gilmore. It's later that Amy would find her grandma, Bonnie Byrnes, whom she's expecting to show up at the house murdered and dumped in the bathtub by the fugitive and seriously injured, during his escape attempt, Roy Evens. For some strange reason Evens allows Amy to live in that he feels that if she's not around to answer the phone it would tip of the police that he's in the house and holding Amy, as well as grandma, hostage.
The movie gets even more complicated when after locking, by tricking him, Evens in the house basement his escaped convict brother Jared shows up. Amy knows that if Jared, who's impersonating a policeman, finds out what she did to his brother he'll slit her throat without a much as a second thought!
It now becomes a race against time with Amy trying to hold off the Evens brothers until help, the police and her boyfriend David, arrives. With all the light turned off, by David, Amy now has the advantage over the Evens brothers in that their as blind, in the total darkness, as she is!
Worth watching not just for the tension-pack final sequence but also the beautiful Canadian, subtitling for the state of Maine, scenery. There's also in the film police dispatcher Doris, Marcie T. House, who's interest on Amy's boyfriend David, she heard he's a hunk of a guy, almost keep her from doing her job in getting the police to save David's girlfriend Amy from being murdered!
Alone in her house Amy has only her pet cat Baxter to keep her company as a major storm roars outside. It just happens that a number of dangerous criminals break out of their prison bus and are out looking for shelter until the storm blows over. The shelter two of the escaped convicts brothers and fellow armed robbers and convicted murders Roy & Jared Evens, Jason-Gray Standford & Teach Grant, end up finding is Amy's house.
Amy sensing that there's something wrong in the house tries to get help by calling her boyfriend David Harris, Matthew Smalley, as well as Sheriff's Deputy Mike Webb, Patrick Gilmore. It's later that Amy would find her grandma, Bonnie Byrnes, whom she's expecting to show up at the house murdered and dumped in the bathtub by the fugitive and seriously injured, during his escape attempt, Roy Evens. For some strange reason Evens allows Amy to live in that he feels that if she's not around to answer the phone it would tip of the police that he's in the house and holding Amy, as well as grandma, hostage.
The movie gets even more complicated when after locking, by tricking him, Evens in the house basement his escaped convict brother Jared shows up. Amy knows that if Jared, who's impersonating a policeman, finds out what she did to his brother he'll slit her throat without a much as a second thought!
It now becomes a race against time with Amy trying to hold off the Evens brothers until help, the police and her boyfriend David, arrives. With all the light turned off, by David, Amy now has the advantage over the Evens brothers in that their as blind, in the total darkness, as she is!
Worth watching not just for the tension-pack final sequence but also the beautiful Canadian, subtitling for the state of Maine, scenery. There's also in the film police dispatcher Doris, Marcie T. House, who's interest on Amy's boyfriend David, she heard he's a hunk of a guy, almost keep her from doing her job in getting the police to save David's girlfriend Amy from being murdered!
