interpreters Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson, Miriama MacDowell, Matthias Luafutu
Year 2021
premiere April 1, 2022
★★★
After starring in some pretty weird New Zealand movies (like “Killer Sheep”) and a career as a short film producer, James Ashcroft makes his debut in the feature film powerfully and with very clear ideas.He demonstrates an extraordinary talent for creating oppressive atmospheres, capturing the black essence of the characters, and maintaining an unbreakable tension throughout filming.
‘Trapped in the Dark’ is based on a story by Owen Marshall and has the peculiarity that you never really know what’s going to happen inside. start with one idyllic family of hikers campers It continues with a night escape to one of those wonderful places in the wilderness of the country, where they can atone for their sins and drive-by abduction, followed by the horrific deaths of two armed psychopaths. revenge plan.
The director has a nightmare of some kind of extreme discomfort. gunshot trauma and that there is no possibility of escape. It’s terrifying how the characters seem to have lost their humanity and how hope is definitely lost along the way. It’s sad that there is a moral rhetoric that finally justifies the behavior of the characters. Without him, everything would have been even more disturbing.