Review: The Dark Within (2019)
By William Pattison
This time I’ve got a truly twisted film about a man with a
unique psychic gift and the danger of him letting in transdimensional invaders,
or if this is all in his head…
A disturbed man with unknown psychic abilities tries to
unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance while battling his own
demons.
This film reminds me a lot of the original The Evil Dead
because most of the action in this film takes place in an out of the way cabin.
Also the main character seeing a bunch of people he cares about turned into
demonic mockeries of themselves. The only real difference is instead of this
dealing with The Old Ones the source of the terror is a possible invasion of
evil transdimensional beings. Still the style has that Evil Dead vib.
This is a well crafted film. From the creature designs to the
claustrophobic feeling this film provides an intense experience.
Paul Flannery steals
the show as Marus. This is mainly because he spends most of the film in the cabin with his
personal demons as well as a vew “visitors”. Also kendra Carelli plays multipal
versions of Marcus’ love interest Sarah.
All in all I can honestly say I had fun with this film even
though you are never even sure what in the film actually happened and what was
in Marcus’ head. I think that is the most brilliant part of this film. I highly
recommend it…
