The Dark (1979)

Dark Thoughts

I've been waiting for this movie to come out on DVD for a long long time. Cool story, decent effects and pretty good acting too, although William Devane wearing sunglasses thru nearly the entire movie was a little retarded. Good job Media Blasters. August 8, 2007

Amazon Needs To Get Their Act Together

This was NOT directed by Tobe Hooper. It was directed by John 'Bud' Cardos. They also have movies in Hooper's director's section which he did not direct, specifically, "Venom". There aren't even any options to make corrections. August 1, 2007

Three stars =3stars

I seem to be going through a second childhood again. This movie is another in a line of movies I have bought lately that I remember watching late nights on Fridays in the 70's when C.B.S. ran movies on late night T.V.(before all of these awful talk shows took over the airwaves and the networks were all you had to watch).
This one started as a slasher/zombie movie(If you can find it read the novelization of the script by Max Franklin I believe) and you can see what they were trying to do with the screenplay.
The whole movie reeks of pre and post production tampering and I think that's why this is such a mess. Anyway, they changed their minds mid production from slasher/zombie to alien/zombie or slasher/alien/zombie or was it zombie/slasher/alien with laser beam eyes, or was it...............
See what I mean, anyway this (fill in the blank here) lands and starts blowing people up, only the police say that it's mutilating them(change of the idea but they didn't change the whole script). The first one killed is William Devane's daughter and he wants answers. Cathy Lee Crosby and Richard Jaeckel round out the cast and all look lost and each one seems to have a different draft of the script.
Yet with all this there is a strange watchability to the madness and when I was 11 this was good. Now it's like the old sneakers you keep even though they look and smell bad and you still wear them from time to time. Most will hate it but if you grew up in the 70's a saw this on late night T.V. you may find a corner of your shelf for this raggedy old sneaker of a movie and watch it now and again. April 4, 2007

Good 1970's Sci-Fi / Horror

Bizarre Sci/Fi Horror Film about an Alien who lands in Los Angeles and kills it's victims either by decapitating them or killing them with it's laser beam eyes. William Devane plays the father on the trail of his daughter's killer and Cathy Lee Crosby plays the blond reporter covering the story of the grizzly murders. Great performance by Richard Jaeckel who plays the detective on the trail of the killer. The late Jacquelyn Hyde plays Psychic De Renzay who tells of the killer being not of this world. Casey Kasem plays the Police Pathologist. Before every killing whispers of "the dark". Good Midnight Movie !!! February 12, 2007

the dark

This movie is of great quality and picture is very good. The movie was delivered and packaged carefully. I would not hesitate to order from Amazon. January 21, 2007

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