A Dark Place

A Dark Place

Directed by Simon Fellows

Produced by Zero Gravity Management, Bedlam Productions

201889 min6.0 / 10

A grim, obsessive thriller about a working-class man's descent into a murder investigation in a small town shadowed by child abuse and moral ambiguity.

When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.

Questions people ask

  • Is A Dark Place sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is A Dark Place easy watching? Barely. Less comforting than 86% of films.

  • Does A Dark Place end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is A Dark Place scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 72% of films.

  • Is A Dark Place violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

28/ 100

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Rarity20

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Surprise43

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Love22

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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