A Dark Song is a 2016 Irish-British horror drama film written and directed by Liam Gavin, making his feature debut. It was produced by David Collins, Cormac Fox and Tim Dennison.
Main cast:
Mark Huberman (Dark Touch; Boy Eats Girl), Susan Loughnane (Nocturne Passage), Steve Oram (Altar; The Canal; Sightseers) and Catherine Walker (Dark Touch).
The film is being shown at the BFI London Film Festival on 7th and 8th October 2016.
Plot:
“Sophia is grief-stricken, overwhelmed with sadness since the untimely death of her young daughter. In a desperate attempt to achieve some form of closure, she reaches out to Solomon, an occultist with experience in an ancient invocation ritual that Sophia believes will allow her to make contact with her deceased child.
Locked away in a remote country house, the disparate pair undergo the long and arduous incantation process, risking both their mental and physical safety as they attempt to access a world beyond our understanding.” Michael Blyth, BFI
Reviews:
“Liam Gavin then makes his film appropriately dark; all indoor scenes look as if they were shot by candlelight. And not romantic dinner candlelight, but greasy fat yellow candles used against the curse of the night. Even the few outdoor scenes are bleak and grey. This is little room for humour, and Gavin keeps a tight pace and the dialogue reduced to its most economical and powerful.” Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Screen Anarchy
Image: Paul Doherty Photography
“Anchored by two excellent performances from its two leads, Gavin’s film lulls you into the same mental space as its characters, and makes it clear that an actual, honest-to-gosh supernatural visitation is by no means a foregone conclusion … A Dark Song is memorable for its distinct and refreshingly grown-up approach to the mechanics of the unseen, and I found it a smart and savvy example of horror’s new breed.
IMDb | Image credits: Paul Doherty Photography
