{"id":168469,"date":"2021-02-02T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tension-and-terror-join-forces-for-coming-home-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:13:07","slug":"tension-and-terror-join-forces-for-coming-home-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tension-and-terror-join-forces-for-coming-home-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tension and Terror Join Forces for &#8216;Coming Home in the Dark&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Tension and Terror Join Forces for &#8216;Coming Home in the Dark&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8-->The potential for terror is evident all around us if you take even a moment to look, from extreme situations to our most mundane moments, but it\u2019s the latter which hurt the most. We\u2019ve all been on road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s with loved ones, enjoying the company and the scenery, but all it takes is one misstep for it all to come crashing down. <strong><em>Coming Home in the Dark<\/em><\/strong> captures that misstep, and a few more, as one family sees a good day descend into shocking violence, nerve-shredding terror, and worse.<\/p>\n<p>A car winds down the New Zealand coastline, its occupants taking no notice of an abandoned vehicle nearby, as the family within heads to a beautiful locale for a peaceful picnic. Alan (<strong>Erik Thomson<\/strong>) and his wife Jill (<strong>Miriama McDowell<\/strong>) are enjoying the break even if her two sons (<strong>Billy Paratene<\/strong>, <strong>Frankie Paratene<\/strong>) aren\u2019t quite fully onboard with either the trip or their new-ish stepdad. All is forgotten, though, when two strangers <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach and the family fails to recognize in time the trouble that\u2019s found them. Mandrake (<strong>Daniel Gillies<\/strong>) and Tubs (<strong>Matthias Luafutu<\/strong>) aren\u2019t there for smalltalk, although the former is awfully chatty, and instead it\u2019s carnage, terror, and a lesson in past sins that are on the new vacation itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>Director\/co-writer <strong>James Ashcroft<\/strong> and co-writer <strong>Eli Kent<\/strong> deliver a tight ninety minutes of ratcheting tension with <em>Coming Home in the Dark<\/em>, and while it hits the occasional snag it still works as a terrifically tense experience. The performances are spot on, the cinematography by Matt Henley is as comfortable with beauty as it is with horror, and it all builds to a satisfyingly downer of an ending \u2014 albeit not the one you\u2019re necessarily expecting.<\/p>\n<p>The two men are bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> from the very start, but the family is slow to react in any meaningful way. Rather than fight or resist they go along with the men\u2019s demands thinking \u2014 and hoping \u2014 that compliance is their key to freedom. As the seconds, minutes, and hours tick by, though, it\u2019s made extremely clear that inaction is a death sentence. \u201cWhen you look back, this is gonna be the moment you\u2019ll wish you\u2019d done something,\u201d says Mandrake, and it\u2019s a powerful lesson that the family learns the hard way. The filmmakers walk a fine line hammering home that theme, and it moves smoothly and surprisingly from irritating to eye-opening. Characters who don\u2019t act \u2014 to save themselves or others \u2014 are difficult, if not impossible, to sympathize with, but the frustration towards Alan\u2019s complacency soon finds a deeper meaning.<\/p>\n<p>No spoilers here, but <em>Coming Home in the Dark<\/em> suggests the possibility that this was no random encounter. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn\u2019t \u2014 New Zealand is a small country, as Mandrake reminds them \u2014 but genre tales are no strangers to stories about past sins catching up to the sinners in devastating fashion. The question for viewers becomes one of culpability and punishment as we endure this long night with victims and oppressors alike.<\/p>\n<p>Villains are typically the showier roles in genre <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, and <em>Coming Home in the Dark<\/em> doesn\u2019t stray from that particular norm as Gillies gifts viewers with an electric monster. He speaks softly even as the insinuations are grotesque and horrifying, and the glint in his eye seems lit by the fires of burning bodies and past carnage. Truths and lies commingle in his every utterance, and he looks as capable of enjoying your company as he does of carving you limb from limb. Luafutu is large and barely speaks, and yet he feels less threatening by comparison \u2014 although that\u2019s on a scale from threatening to very threatening.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Thomson, though, who much of the film hinges on as he becomes the focus of the men\u2019s ire for various reasons. As mentioned, his failure to act through more than a few missed opportunities can\u2019t help but frustrate at first. As the film unfolds our relationship to him morphs into something different as he becomes something that\u2019s both more and less than merely a victim. You\u2019ll feel differently towards him by the time the credits roll, and it\u2019s an at times fascinating journey getting there.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming Home in the Dark<\/em> is a tensely thrilling ride pairing cruel behaviors with an inviting landscape, and it\u2019s not for the faint of heart. 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