It was a scary movie. It's a good movie to watch on Friday night.
22 Reviews
Friday night movie
jhxian28 April 2021
Slow
gab-6759924 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This movie would have been better with more drama added to the mix. You never really got a clear picture of how unstable the father was because we don't know who's body was in the backyard or if anything happened to the neighbor after he changed her medication.
Or what happened to the mother, and why did the sister have to lose her arm? Just so they would not talk to one another? Then take both arms.
These are all point that would have help heighten this movie, but there was more questions than answers.
Slow and boring
RandomTard14 May 2021
Potential but fell flat
shelbeylinder24 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
While the idea of this movie could've made for an excellent thriller, it was more of a character study with some weird elements sprinkled in. It moved VERY slowly and had little to no sense of risk/suspense/mystery like a good thriller has.
I felt the "reveal" about the dad came far too late and after too much damage was done for it to be shocking in any way.
I felt the "reveal" about the dad came far too late and after too much damage was done for it to be shocking in any way.
Loved every minute of this movie !
roger_20209 September 2020
Extremely boring
emily_louise-1405927 July 2021
I'm an avid indie movie fan and had this on my list for a while, but what a waste of time. Minimal dialogue, minimal aesthetics, minimal storyline until the very last few minutes. It made me agitated at how slow it was.
Try it
jikanwen-3426328 April 2021
better than it looks
djhqbcxi28 April 2021
Good trailer and poster
hehiheyhuu28 April 2021
Good characters
mulitguya-3687628 April 2021
Hide-and-seek
wugui-1705728 April 2021
Brilliant film
orgeorgy29 November 2020
Simple story but good acting and directing
velvetasbx28 April 2021
Can I recommend you one?
mingming-6449228 April 2021
Unusually simple and unusually creepy for a thriller.
JohnDeSando28 January 2021
"To keep it in your mind and not forget, that it is not he, or she, or them, or it that you belong to." "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
So, begins one of the strangest thrillers you'll see this year-not that Silence & Darkness doesn't echo Dylan's criticism of the failed social environment of the '70's but rather that it shows how isolating from that imperfect world has consequences. Writer/director Barak Barkan has crafted an indie that scares the bejesus out of you because there are few scares, just the disappointment that a remote idyllic life may be fraught, and nobody may know it.
Deaf Anna (Mina Walker) and blind Beth (Joan Glackin) are two sisters living in a small rural town, presumably Vermont (that's where it was filmed), with attentive local GP father (Jordan Lage), in a modern lodge-like home overlooking much green grass and many trees. Idyllic, yes; safe, no.
The danger is the slow-burn, low-key horror as, after a neighbor's visit about her dog digging up bones, the girls begin to look more closely at the unusual attention father gives them. But, hey, he's an overly-caring doctor dad with two disabled daughters! How bad can that be?
Not that we'd ever know in the first hour of this spare 80 minutes. It's perhaps that things go so well with the sisters devoted to each other and dad doting that makes us suspect evil lurking underneath-it is after all a thriller-horror film. The contrast between the rural, familial sublimity and the lingering-reveal of dad's motives constitutes the growing fear that maybe things are too simple and good.
Because I lived for years in rural Vermont with six angelic children, I know the feeling that something could go terribly wrong if only an ignorance of the dangerous world just outside the trees and grass. I pulled us all out of there because I could not abide the cost of that simplicity, not the least of which was a naivete born of isolation and the chance for evil angels to thrive without competition from the better ones.
Silence & Darkness reminds me that the purest situations can be a sentence to danger, given the remoteness and rudeness that breeds disability, not just the physical kind. Here's a thriller whose thrills will hit home for those used to remoteness-COVID has taught us to beware of being alone.
So, begins one of the strangest thrillers you'll see this year-not that Silence & Darkness doesn't echo Dylan's criticism of the failed social environment of the '70's but rather that it shows how isolating from that imperfect world has consequences. Writer/director Barak Barkan has crafted an indie that scares the bejesus out of you because there are few scares, just the disappointment that a remote idyllic life may be fraught, and nobody may know it.
Deaf Anna (Mina Walker) and blind Beth (Joan Glackin) are two sisters living in a small rural town, presumably Vermont (that's where it was filmed), with attentive local GP father (Jordan Lage), in a modern lodge-like home overlooking much green grass and many trees. Idyllic, yes; safe, no.
The danger is the slow-burn, low-key horror as, after a neighbor's visit about her dog digging up bones, the girls begin to look more closely at the unusual attention father gives them. But, hey, he's an overly-caring doctor dad with two disabled daughters! How bad can that be?
Not that we'd ever know in the first hour of this spare 80 minutes. It's perhaps that things go so well with the sisters devoted to each other and dad doting that makes us suspect evil lurking underneath-it is after all a thriller-horror film. The contrast between the rural, familial sublimity and the lingering-reveal of dad's motives constitutes the growing fear that maybe things are too simple and good.
Because I lived for years in rural Vermont with six angelic children, I know the feeling that something could go terribly wrong if only an ignorance of the dangerous world just outside the trees and grass. I pulled us all out of there because I could not abide the cost of that simplicity, not the least of which was a naivete born of isolation and the chance for evil angels to thrive without competition from the better ones.
Silence & Darkness reminds me that the purest situations can be a sentence to danger, given the remoteness and rudeness that breeds disability, not just the physical kind. Here's a thriller whose thrills will hit home for those used to remoteness-COVID has taught us to beware of being alone.
Good directing
woiweiah28 April 2021
Overcome this fear
tangygrand28 April 2021
Awesome Thriller
OmarOcampos4 December 2020
Surprising Knock Out
pabloburn17 January 2021
Moving, dark thriller. Don't miss it!
natbarkan12 December 2020
Outstanding dark thriller
nadav_vaknin14 December 2020
This movie debut by newcomer director, Barak Barkan, got me hooked to the screen. Great acting by main lead actor Joan Glackin. The soundtrack is excellent, leading the scenes accurately, def worth a watch, I recommend even two.
Beautiful movie
celestejepp-180238 February 2021
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