Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
Lightdeossk
Captivating movie !
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Carlos Idelone
The "summary", refers to the film's weirdest line, at the climax of the film.It goes something like this, " Education used to be easy, but these days everyone has an opinion." ???? Was that supposed to be a joke? The film- makers seemed to concentrate on the looks of the film and the actors, more than the story. All the actors were "pretty", as was the scenery. I liked listening to the rich Irish accents. Unfortunately, the story seemed quite amateurish, as it contained bits and pieces from other movies, stuck together haphazardly. It jumbled "Carrie", "Who can Kill a Child", "Village of the Damned" and another recent Irish horror story,"The Daisy Chain", in which a little girl/elf burns her parents to death. The imagery was well done, but the plot was basically incoherent, with very little real story.
CelluloidDog
Dark Touch ranks with such horror disasters such as Children of the Corn. The first few minutes is stylish but that's all. The script is hackneyed, acting is weak, and plot is bizarre. People say it's about an abused girl. Not quite, but rather it is society's view of what abuse is. We think we recognize it, we think we know its symptoms and we take an adults view how an abused child reacts to situations. This is actually more about hiding and misinterpreting abuse. Adults seem to think they know what's happening, but they don't. We see slapping and yelling. But it doesn't justify what Niamh does. Consider who Niamh killed in the beginning (I can't give it away), someone young and innocent. Again, she kills dozens of innocent, young people. Not just adults. So for those who think it's about abuse, think again. That's a clouded perception which audience are just as clueless as the adults in the film. Everyone suspect abuse, but can't put a finger on it. It's really more a classical tale of poltergeists, that children can manipulate (if you are unsure, look it up). It really is about evil and poltergeists, how we can misinterpret what that is. That is, poltergeists are considered delusions from ambiguous stimuli. That actually describes what happens in this movie. It's never clear what exactly triggers the whistling or object movements to kill but they occur with Niamh's crying and thoughts. Missy Keating who plays Niamh (or Neve) plays only two emotions, one flat lacking expression and the other screaming. Supporting actors are mostly one-dimensional. Script is weak at times and the plot wanders around. The ending is very bizarre with Niamh and her two sidekicks. It's a bad version of Firestarter. About the same time, I saw this movie, I saw one about real abuse, in Jug Face. The latter is also about a girl, much older, in a superstitious cult. A far superior film.
gdebruyn-779-165115
I should have known when I figured out this was a foreign film that it was going to be a long, boring, drawn out, waste of time. The acting sucked. And whats with kids touching adults and adults touching children the way they did. That was way over the line. Talk about low budget. Who wrote this anyway? They should be beat with a stick. How did this manage to get 4.5 stars? This makes American B rated movies look like Oscar nominees. Give the story line to an American writer, so they can make it into a good suspenseful thriller. What was this a foreign Carrie? Nice try, but give up the career and do something you are good at.
Cynthia Turcotte
This wasn't a *bad* movie, but it wasn't a great movie either. I've certainly watched bigger time sucks before. The atmosphere of the movie was great. Gray, gloomy, foreboding, etc... So I liked the tone of the movie, and I was able to get behind the characters of Nat, Lucas, the social worker and little Neve.Where the movie started to hedge into the 'meh' zone was when it tried to do too much. It tried to be a supernatural 'whodunit'. Was it an evil entity in the house? A spirit protecting little Neve? A poltergeist? 'Carrie'-esque telekinetic abilities? The movie kind of jumped all over the place with that.******** NOTE THAR BE SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT **********Clearly she figures out that *she* is the cause of all of the weirdness when she rescues her two classmates from their abusive mother. As to why they killed the other children? If you remember the garden party, the little girls were beating, stabbing, and otherwise being mean to their dollies. In Neve's mind, they were bad mommies, and in this movie, bad mommies and daddies come to a bad end.As far as the 180 at the end, if you recall, Nat and Lucas had a little girl who died from cancer. Neve doesn't believe the story. In her mind, the little girl died because her parents were bad to her and didn't love her. My question is this - did Neve and her two classmates die as well? I'm thinking not, because they just sat there smiling. Also, what the heck was up with the tears turning red?
