Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

view_and_review Like they say in journalism: this is a non-story. There was nothing here; nothing original, nothing special, nothing scary, nothing worth watching.When Sarah (Niamh Algar) and Mark (Stephen Cromwell) escape to the Irish countryside for some alone time they find themselves stuck on an isolated property hiding from some creature. The movie makers tried to drum up some fear and suspense but it fell flat. How can I even be expected to fear a creature that spends most of its time unnecessarily stalking its victim? I know that was done for added fright, but it only made the creature more baffling as it could only hunt during the night so time was precious. This creature timidly slinked around in order to give us a 90 minute movie as the heroine fought it off with flashlights, cell phone light and matches. There were definitely several points in the movie when I wondered what's the plan. Not just the plan of the protagonist but also the plan of the creature. Both of them seemed aimless. What I watched was a choreographed hunt where they both strategically harmed each other a bit until one of them delivered the kill shot. Like I said, there's nothing to see here folks.

yotamfreyman I see a lot of horror movies. That one is maybe a low budget, but in my opinion very tense and scary. Camera angles, moving figures on the background, really good acting (considering horror genre and no special effects low budget piece) all this made surprisingly good and tense movie. And i loved those Vurdalaks that you can only see their shape in the night. Usually when they show you the whole monster it looks sucks and ruins the whole movie. And i like the last seconds - that makes you wander what happens next and upgrades the experience from the movie to the next level. Like it. If you are disappointed with this you should check some "Pyramid" or stuff of that kind - full of effects with ridiculous story and idiotic acting. You will understand what i mean.

Jeffrey Burton 'From the Dark' is great little horror movie. I'm writing this review out of protest for the low rating. This is one of the better Horror films I've seen recently. It's plot is simplicity itself: What would happen and how would you survive a night if you encountered an ancient vampire in the countryside? But within that it's a vampire flick, creature feature, siege movie, with some believable action adventure elements to it. It helps that the couple who find themselves stranded and prey to a very unromanticized non-sparkly ass, dirty, smelly (we can guess) Nosferatu type Vampire are not Rambo types. They are regular folks doing the best they can in a crazy situation. There's none of the usual bellyaching and 'but I don't believe in Vampires' crap that goes on in most movies of this genre. They just accept what is happening and deal with it as best they can. This is a definite step in the right direction towards a grittier approach to the genre after the namby-pamby idiocy of the wretched 'Twilight' series and all it's terrible imitators. This is really great, very realistic, little horror flick that deserves more than what it's getting here and for you sitting down a giving it a chance with no prejudice. Highly recommended.

mary-laking I enjoyed this film. The thing I liked most was the absence of music. There was a little bit, but most scenes were done in silence, which I actually find much more scary than an annoying soundtrack. It had a fairly predictable beginning - young couple get lost in the remote Irish countryside and their car gets bogged down. From that point on, things go from bad to worse. I also liked the absence of tedious explanations as to who or what the original creature was. Sometimes films get too bogged down trying to explain and in the end, does it matter? They're being attacked by a scary creature, they have to save themselves, not much else is relevant in the larger scheme of things. I agree with some of the other reviewers that there were some parts that didn't make sense, for instance, how many bad creatures were there running around in the dark? The original biter, the bitten farmer and Mark? How come the heroine gets scratched, apparently by one of the creatures, but doesn't get infected? But in my experience that's the way with horror movies. In the end, if they keep you riveted that's all that matters.