DARK PLACES is a slow-paced and realistic slice of American crime with a slightly muddled storyline. The narrative is split between two time frames, the present day and the historical past, but the present day plotting is rather weak and limited despite the presence of established stars including Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult in the cast. The historical story is much more interesting and involves the build-up to a family massacre which has an eventual reveal that you certainly won't see coming. The film utilises the real-life Satanism scare of the 1990s to good effect and keeps you watching in order to find out the answers, although it's not a movie that you'll come back to once you've found out what really did happen.
Review of Dark Places
