For some this movie may require more then one viewing. I would actually recommend watching it at least twice as there is so much going on that things make much more sense after a second viewing. After reading some of the reviews here I can see that this movie went over a lot of peoples heads which is no surprise to me.First of all, no, the movie leaves no question unanswered, there are absolutely NO plot holes, and if it did for you watch it again, you missed it or if you refuse, maybe this just isn't the movie for you.Thora Birch, as always, gives an excellent performance. I swear every time I see her starring in a Horror I know its going to be good. This girl is talented and has an eye for picking great independent movies. I recommend checking out "The Hole" if you like her. Also, the rest of the actors in this movie are totally believable and give stellar performances.Without spoilers, this movie follows a young woman who lives two separate lives. One while she is awake and one when shes asleep. In one life she has everything she wants, a picture perfect life if you will. And the other life is dark and miserable. As the movie goes on the lives begin to intertwine. All of this is going on while a serial killer terrorizes the city they live in.The scenery of this movie is absolutely perfect between her two lives. Bright and happy in one life, Dark and menacing in the other. The characters and scenes in this movie are truly real. There are funny moments(This is NOT a comedy in any way) and some serious wtf? moments. Definitely not a cookie cutter movie in anyway though some may mistake it for one hence the bad reviews.For genre fans I cannot recommend this movie enough. I really don't like to sound over anxious in movie reviews because a lot of it comes down to taste and I don't want to let people down if this isn't there type of movie, but still, this movie really affected me to the point that I actually bought it and have shown it to many of my friends who aren't into the horror genre as much as myself and everyone I have shown it too has been affected which just reinforces my belief that this is of GEM quality.Mark my words, this will be a forgotten classic someday. The good acting, the subtle hints, combined with the "holy sh**" ending makes this one hard to forget.I gave this movie a 10 out of 10 rating because it really delivers. I never give 10. In the past I have given 7's to independent movies that were only deserving of a 6 to help them out when the one time trolls have killed and thoroughly discredited a movie, but in this case this movie really is, to me a 10/10 horror movie. I can think of nothing that could've made this movie better then it is.Absolute gem!!

stalked by creatures... where are those creatures? there's not a single creature in this movie (imdb plot description) i've to give you some spoilers to make you understand what this movie is all about; thora has psychological problems and in her nightmares she lives another life as a super hot dark girl (she should really stay like that). as movie progresses reality and nightmares gets closer and closer to each other and in the end you realize that this all or at least a big part of all was the reality and we were watching it, just from her perspective.putting all the pieces together is really hard, if thora was the murderer (both shrink and dark thora has a smashed fingernail so they are probably the same person) who was the blonde thora? someone completely else? was that guy dark thora's ex-lover and they part ways and she turn back and killed his wife (blonde thora)? either that or blonde one were also thora so we have a multiple personalities psyco here... i mean, in the end, shrink kills blonde thora, dark thora turns into blonde thora's husband and kills the shrink. dang, who is who?so it's that kind of a movie, it's surreal, it's psychological and it's not a movie where creatures stalking you and then killing you.

Dark Corners starts as young successful woman Susan Hamilton (Thora Birch) & her husband David (Christien Anholt) are trying to conceive a baby through IVF treatment, however lately Susan has been suffering from very vivid & terrifying nightmares in which she sees an alter ego of herself named Karen Clarke (Thora Birch) have some horrible experiences. Also at this time the area where Susan lives is being terrorised by a serial killer known as the 'Nightstalker'. The nightmares become worse & Susan seeks the help of psychoanalyst Dr. Woodleigh (Toby Stephens) who hypnotises her & 'kills' Karen off in her nightmare which he believes will stop them. Then the Nightstalker strikes close to home & kills one of Susan's friends & the nightmares return, but what do they mean & why are they so lifelike?This American British co-production was written & directed by Ray Gower & is one of the biggest wastes of 90 odd minutes I can remember seeing, sure there are worse films out there but for sheer frustration & annoyance Dark Corner is hard to beat. I suppose Dark Corners aims to be a dark psychological thriller with horror overtones that is meant to keep you guessing right up to the end & to be fair the first fifteen or twenty minutes were good & I liked what I was seeing. The way when Susan went to sleep in her world Karen would wake up in her & when Karen went to sleep or got knocked out Susan would then re-awake was quite cool & it got to a point I wasn't sure which reality was real & which was the dreamworld or whether both were real or what was going on. Unfortunately Dark Corners carries on in this exact same fashion for 85 minutes, Susan sleeps, Karen wakes, Karen sleeps & Susan wakes. Talk about repetitive & it get really boring as the film just goes round in circles with meaningless imagery, dialogue & a plot that never seems to advance. Then the big so-called twist ending comes & everything that has gone before is thrown out of the window in an ending that makes zero sense to me, there are plenty of long posts on the IMDb about the meaning of this twist but what it comes down to is people just trying to make something out of nothing. For every answer you might have there will be at least another couple of questions that arise, nothing makes sense or has any logic to it & I hated it. Dark Corners is slow & it's an absolute mess that one presumes director Gower wanted to say something profound & meaningful but things got out of control & he couldn't tie it all together. Sure no-one needs to be spoon fed the answers but give us pieces of the puzzle that actually fit together rather than this boring mess of ideas. Still, when all said & done who gives a damn what this crap film is about the main question I want answered though is why did that old woman tell Susan not to sit in that chair in the corner of Woodleigh's waiting room?The sole reason I am giving Dark Corners two stars out of ten rather than one is because it does actually look quite nice, Susan perfect brightly lit world contrasts well against Karens bleak dark & grungy one. It's easy to know which reality the film is currently in because of the two colour schemes. In the making-of featurette director Gower apparently says this is 'David Lynch meets Cronenberg meets Wes Craven', yeah right. There's all sorts of imagery that really has little to do with anything, a blind detective to killers who wear hoodies to weird kids randomly pointing at Karen. None of it comes across as anything other than pretentious & just strange for no real reason. There's some gore, there's a dead body with it's guts hanging out, there's a slit throat, a ripped out baby fetus & some blood splatter. There are one or two well composed & shot scenes that are almost creepy but not enough.Although set in the US this was filmed over here in England, the film does look nice with good production values & effects. The acting is pretty poor from most, Thora Birch is hot in both roles but that's the best I can say for her.Dark Corners is a film that feels like it's supposed to be full of messages, striking images & a knock out twist, unfortunately it's a complete total & utter mess that fails on every count. The first fifteen or twenty minutes are alright but once the repetitiveness & boredom kicks in I can see most losing interest very quickly.

There are two obvious reasons for the low IMDb average: 1) most filmgoers are lazy, non-thinking (even anti-thinking) morons, and 2) they didn't understand the ending. (1 and 2 are cause-and-effect linked, so both points can be unified into one Grand Reason or Theory Of Everything (That Makes The Daft Viewer Hate Quality).) DC is a relatively moody fantasy horror/thriller which may be utterly confusing hence exasperating to lazy and/or less intelligent viewers, but it nevertheless offers an ending that explains all of the preceding bizarre events.For those who didn't get it: the blond-Birch half of the film is a basic description of the last weeks/months in the life of the serial-killer's last victim. The brunette-Birch half is Hell itself, in which the killer re-lives over and over various events in his "past" life through the brunette Birch. The psychotherapist/killer is forever doomed to live out his own personal Hell, destined to bounce forever between two world like a ping-ping ball: between that of his actual victim, the blonde Birch, and the nightmare world of the brunette Birch, who never existed in the first place. The killer is thereby punished by having to re-experience his own crime, both from the perspective of his last victim and her non-existent brunette double.Not that the basic foundation behind this premise is anything wildly new or original. It is somewhat reminiscent of "Angel Heart", even more of "Hellraiser V", and who knows how many other movies. Nevertheless, the basic idea is presented here in a new way, hence to criticize DC solely on the basis of its premise would mean that nearly every single Western, action film, and family drama, would also have to be dismissed as utterly unoriginal and useless. The movie keeps you guessing, and there are no major loose ends. (In fact, considering that all of the events occur in "Hell", then there is no really need for every single detail to be explained neatly at the end, anyway. Some parts need to be left to the imagination... for those viewers who have it.) DC does NOT remind of "Lost Highway" much. Lynch's typically overpraised LH is a confused jumble of utter nonsense, all style and almost zero meaning, whereas DC has both a logical structure and a point.