The Deep Dark

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The Deep Dark

2023

1h 43m

Adventure

Horror

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Miners are forced to bring a professor underground to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time and awaken a bloodthirsty creature.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

A taut genre exercise in fear and tension, The Deep Dark in its best moments leaves us as breathless as it does its motley collection of desperate, trapped miners.

Oct 23, 2023

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Jorge Loser

Espinof

Alain Duplantier shows a crystalline contrast between illuminated characters, darkness, and shadow, which ensures that you see only what you have to see. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Oct 9, 2024

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

It’s in [its] understanding of working life that the film really excels, and it’s refreshing to see working class characters given centre stage in a story like this.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 11, 2024

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Kat Hughes

THN

The Deep Dark is a must-watch for fans of practical effects and nightmarish monsters as the creature is a stunningly realised bloodthirsty beast.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 8, 2024

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Rob Hunter

Film School Rejects

A low budget keeps its ambition from tipping over into greatness, but it still delivers chills and a solid creature feature down in the dark.

Feb 9, 2024

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Alisha Mughal

Film Daze

The Deep Dark is sweeping and of a historical breadth, a film that is at once breathlessly engrossing and terrifyingly patient.

Rated: 8/10

Dec 7, 2023

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CaveMan I

Absolutely a French masterpiece: A very well executed horror movie, I knew it from the beginning it's gonna be a good fucked up horror movie like any other French horror movies I have seen. For me it's a 8 out 10 🖤🖤🖤

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/18/24

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Tessa Y

This movie was really gripping and genuinely horrifying. My biggest complaint is that the monster should have always been partially shadowed. What you don't see is worse than what you do, and the best parts were when I was trying to figure out what it was.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/12/25

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Plor E

Vraiment très très sympa, un bon film d'horreur français avec un bon contexte et une belle mise en scène.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

07/01/24

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Audience Member

Simple and efficient with some very interesting sets and designs. It's a cool idea that I hope will bear fruit to more releases from this director.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/20/24

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Q S

For those who love movies with great actors, creepy locations and a unique and frightening old-fashion practical f--- monster, THIS IS FOR YOU!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/31/24

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Synopsis

Miners are forced to bring a professor underground to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time and awaken a bloodthirsty creature.

Director: Mathieu Turi
Producer: Eric Gendarme, Thomas Lubeau
Screenwriter: Mathieu Turi
Production Co: Fulltime Studio, Marcel Films
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 43m