After watching this film I realized the definition of a "Nothing Movie" But before we get into the review, I think I'll go over a bit of what happened. OK we open to an old man, who I presume to be digging clay or other minerals, when he stumbles upon the hand of "The Creature" *cough*Vampire*cough* and he pulls the stake out of his heart which some how brings him back to life? (This movie IS NOT consistent with typical vampire lore/mythology by the way, so if you came for accuracy, back away now) Then we cut to an open road, but first, a few minutes of absolutely gorgeous cinematography...more on that laterAfter about 10 whole minutes we get our first piece of dialogue from the main characters(?), and really, there's not much besides this... Honestly... unless you count inaudible grunts, screaming, yelling, etc as dialogue. So anyways, the couple gets stuck and they try and find a house or whatever so they can get back to their vacation that they never mention besides the fact that there is one. Instead of just going back the road they took (the characters are poorly written to say the least) to searching for a house or other people to help them out. The mentally retarded Mark finds an abandoned house with the pre-mentioned old man who ,obviously, has gotten bitten by the vampire and is bleeding and screaming and whatever. Mark goes back to Female Character and tells her they need to help him. Pretty much after this is an inaccurate, inconsistent, dialog-free, intensely boring, continuous fight scene/ "plot" thing.Mark dies because he is useless, this was the best part of the film because his INTENSE STUPIDITY really built up a lot of hate in me. Now this is were the extreme inconsistency becomes unbelievably obvious. Mark is turned into a Vampire via scratch marks on his leg, then killed from being exposed to the light of an artificial light source. HOWEVER. The old man vampire had previously lit a wood stove to try an "smoke the couple out" How did the light of the fire not kill him? That was a huge plot hole. Then there are other things like, at the very end, Somehow Extremely Brave Female Character, tries to light the house on fire or something and the main vampire STEPS DIRECTLY INTO THE FIRE AND DOESN'T DIE EVEN THOUGH ANOTHER VAMPIRE WAS KILLED SIMPLY BY BEING EXPOSED TO IT. Or Female character repeatedly ripping off pieces of her shirt to cover wounds, only to have her shirt completely repaired in the next time the scene cuts. Just stupid, easy to correct stuff like that... was present through out the entirety of the film. So if you're picky, you won't like it.Also, there's no backstory whatsoever. And sooo many unanswered questions. Why is the vampire there? How did he get there? Why is the old man digging clay? Why does this film exist? Did anyone on production stop and think about the insane amount of plot holes for one second?And finally the cinematography. This is something the film could have done right. This probably could've made the film watchable. However, they decided to use it at completely unnecessary times. For example, in the car when Mark and Female Character are talking, we got all these weird angels and stuff. Like why? I guess they just realized they were good at something then OVER USED IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. As a quick side note, The Creature costume also sucked. The claw-hand glove things they used were straight out of the Halloween stores. The makeup though, was pretty okay-ishly done, too bad you can't see the creatures face except for on the DVD itself!In summary, the characters were weak, the story was full of plot holes, and the movie was pretty much the most boring thing I've ever watched.

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.

'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.

This isn't a bad movie. The acting is great, the film looks big budget, which is always nice. I'm a scared cat and would I say this movie was scary? Not too much. But it did have some good scares and it isn't a complete waste of your time. If you like vampires this is a vampire movie. I think this movie could have been one of the greats in the genre if they had added some dialogue and built up the suspended that way. It's all action, not psychological and I like to both. It was still intriguing and could have been amazing like I said if they had put a story line in there with some back ground and built it up like I said. Like knowing what exactly it was or who it was chasing them and what happened to the farmer would have been nice.. It depends . Lots of people don't like to think to much about their horror and this will def appeal to that crowd. With good actors it's hard to make a terrible movie. I loved parts of Ishtar for instance. This movie has great actors and it saved it from being a not good movie. Overall I say this is def worth a watch on Netflix. I just got done watching "Deep in the Darkness". That movie had great reviews and I thought it was awful. The acting was terrible. And I just thought it was a disaster. So maybe I'm biased , I don't know. This one is very much a stretch above that monstrosity.