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Every story has a beginning, and an ending. It's just a pity that Dark Corners' ending is so goddamn awful. It starts well enough, with Thora Birch playing a woman who finds herself alternating between two separate lives. In one life she's a happily married middle-class woman trying for a baby, and in another she's a down on her luck gothy looking skank who works in a mortuary. Both these characters appear to be aware of each other, but think that they're both nothing more a dream. A dream that turns rapidly into a nightmare when a gruesome looking serial killer starts slaughtering his way through their friends.
But Dark Corners is a far cry from your usual stalk and slash fare. Despite the presence of the aforementioned serial killer, the movie spends more time dwelling on the increasingly strange events that occur in both worlds. Both characters become increasingly convinced they're going mad, especially when people from Dark Thora's dimension start appealing in Nice Thora's world, and vice versa. And the film gets increasingly strange as it goes on. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you, as long as things are wrapped up by the close of the movie.
Unfortunately for Dark Corners, the ending is a complete mess. It doesn't provide any real answers, and the film just ends. It's not that the whole movie is Eraserhead crazy all the way through, it just fails to reach any kind of resolution. It's a hell of a shame given that the bulk of the film is well written and well acted. In fact, it's almost as if the writer didn't know how to end it. And for this reason, I can't recommend it. Dark Corners is a film that starts off well but just sputters out before reaching any kind of conclusion and is likely to leave you feeling confused and mildly annoyed.
But Dark Corners is a far cry from your usual stalk and slash fare. Despite the presence of the aforementioned serial killer, the movie spends more time dwelling on the increasingly strange events that occur in both worlds. Both characters become increasingly convinced they're going mad, especially when people from Dark Thora's dimension start appealing in Nice Thora's world, and vice versa. And the film gets increasingly strange as it goes on. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you, as long as things are wrapped up by the close of the movie.
Unfortunately for Dark Corners, the ending is a complete mess. It doesn't provide any real answers, and the film just ends. It's not that the whole movie is Eraserhead crazy all the way through, it just fails to reach any kind of resolution. It's a hell of a shame given that the bulk of the film is well written and well acted. In fact, it's almost as if the writer didn't know how to end it. And for this reason, I can't recommend it. Dark Corners is a film that starts off well but just sputters out before reaching any kind of conclusion and is likely to leave you feeling confused and mildly annoyed.
Every story has a beginning, and an ending. It's just a pity that Dark Corners' ending is so goddamn awful. It starts well enough, with Thora Birch playing a woman who finds herself alternating between two separate lives. In one life she's a happily married middle-class woman trying for a baby, and in another she's a down on her luck gothy looking skank who works in a mortuary. Both these characters appear to be aware of each other, but think that they're both nothing more a dream. A dream that turns rapidly into a nightmare when a gruesome looking serial killer starts slaughtering his way through their friends.
But Dark Corners is a far cry from your usual stalk and slash fare. Despite the presence of the aforementioned serial killer, the movie spends more time dwelling on the increasingly strange events that occur in both worlds. Both characters become increasingly convinced they're going mad, especially when people from Dark Thora's dimension start appealing in Nice Thora's world, and vice versa. And the film gets increasingly strange as it goes on. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you, as long as things are wrapped up by the close of the movie.
Unfortunately for Dark Corners, the ending is a complete mess. It doesn't provide any real answers, and the film just ends. It's not that the whole movie is Eraserhead crazy all the way through, it just fails to reach any kind of resolution. It's a hell of a shame given that the bulk of the film is well written and well acted. In fact, it's almost as if the writer didn't know how to end it. And for this reason, I can't recommend it. Dark Corners is a film that starts off well but just sputters out before reaching any kind of conclusion and is likely to leave you feeling confused and mildly annoyed.
But Dark Corners is a far cry from your usual stalk and slash fare. Despite the presence of the aforementioned serial killer, the movie spends more time dwelling on the increasingly strange events that occur in both worlds. Both characters become increasingly convinced they're going mad, especially when people from Dark Thora's dimension start appealing in Nice Thora's world, and vice versa. And the film gets increasingly strange as it goes on. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you, as long as things are wrapped up by the close of the movie.
Unfortunately for Dark Corners, the ending is a complete mess. It doesn't provide any real answers, and the film just ends. It's not that the whole movie is Eraserhead crazy all the way through, it just fails to reach any kind of resolution. It's a hell of a shame given that the bulk of the film is well written and well acted. In fact, it's almost as if the writer didn't know how to end it. And for this reason, I can't recommend it. Dark Corners is a film that starts off well but just sputters out before reaching any kind of conclusion and is likely to leave you feeling confused and mildly annoyed.
The film for the most part was interesting, but it ended horribly.
So many questions were still unanswered, why were Karen Clarke and Susan Hamilton dreaming about each other. Susan seemed to be living a couple decades before Karen (the telephone and other things seemed older). Or that perhaps Susan was Karen's darker corner, and alternate personality who might be the killer(s).
But the ending with Susan finding Karen's dead body was far too confusing not to be explained.
The doctor was the killer, or Susan was the killer, or they were both alternates of Karen's warped mind.
Crossing between reality and fantasy can make a film spectacular, but after spending the time following such a confusing storyline, to be left without the real meaning makes the movie a waste of time and energy.
I don't recommend this movie to anyone, well anyone who isn't high enough to not be frustrated by a film that leaves you wondering who done it.
So many questions were still unanswered, why were Karen Clarke and Susan Hamilton dreaming about each other. Susan seemed to be living a couple decades before Karen (the telephone and other things seemed older). Or that perhaps Susan was Karen's darker corner, and alternate personality who might be the killer(s).
But the ending with Susan finding Karen's dead body was far too confusing not to be explained.
The doctor was the killer, or Susan was the killer, or they were both alternates of Karen's warped mind.
Crossing between reality and fantasy can make a film spectacular, but after spending the time following such a confusing storyline, to be left without the real meaning makes the movie a waste of time and energy.
I don't recommend this movie to anyone, well anyone who isn't high enough to not be frustrated by a film that leaves you wondering who done it.