EN LA TINIEBLA
Half Light
Unos meses después de la trágica muerte de su hijo, Rachel Carlson, una famosa escritora de novelas policíacas, se traslada desde Londres a un pequeño pueblo pesquero de Escocia con la esperanza de volver a escribir, pero muy pronto empiezan a producirse a su alrededor hechos muy extraños e inexplicables.
Directores
Reparto
Demi Moore
Rachel Carlson
Henry Ian Cusick
Brian
Jordan El-Balawi
Thomas Carlson
Kate Isitt
Sharon Winton
Nicholas Gleaves
Dr. Robert Freedman
James Cosmo
Finlay Murray
Joanna Hole
Mary Murray
Thérèse Bradley
Morag McPherson
Hans Matheson
Angus McCulloch
Mickey Wilson
Reverend James McMahon
Polly Frame
Librarian
Ceit Kearney
Gaelic Speaking Woman
Nichola Bee
Kate McCulloch
Jamie Edgell
Gordon McCloud
Anne Smith
Bingo Announcer
Isla Hampson
Maitre'd
Helen Crerar
Mrs. Freedman
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Melancholy, drama, romance, ghosts and thrills on the secluded British coast
After the death of her son and impending divorce, a successful writer (Demi Moore) moves to a cottage on the remote Scottish coast where strange, sometimes ghostly things start happening as she develops a relationship with the handsome lighthouse attendant (Hans Matheson). Henry Ian Cusick plays her husband, a failed writer, while Kate Isitt plays her close friend from London. Other important characters include a woman with second sight and the constable of the village.
As you can probably tell, “Half Light” (2006) is a drama/mystery with ghostly elements and even some thrills in the last act. I wouldn’t call it horror. It’s not far removed from films like “Dark Water” (2005), “The Wicker Man” (1973/2006), “The Fog” (1980/2005), “The Haunting of Seacliff Inn” (1994), “The Sixth Sense” (1999) and “Loch Ness” (1996). If you liked those movies you’ll probably like this one. It features a haunting ambiance combined with magnificent British coastal locations.
Early on there are a couple of predictable clichés, like a creepy event that turns out to be a nightmare, which itself is a nightmare, but this only happens once. At the midpoint there’s a twist that I didn’t see coming and another Hollywoodized one in the last act. Despite the magnificent locations, the first half is lugubrious and mundane with slow drama that pretty much morphs into a romance novel, but everything perks up with the twist in the middle. From there to the end it’s quite compelling.
Some viewers have complained about the unlikely conspiracy of the last act, as well as it containing too many uncertain variables. But it makes sense when you factor in the great success of a certain person and the “little foxes” of envy, bitterness and greed, not to mention other things that I can’t share without spoiling. As for the “variables,” they can be easily explained away when you consider the fluidness of the root scheme. It might be Hollywoodish, but Forensic Files shows that these kinds of diabolic trickeries aren’t as unlikely as we might think.
The movie runs 1 hour, 50 minutes and was in Wales and England (Cromwell & London), none of it in Scotland.
GRADE: B
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