Dark Skies (2013)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 45
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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 11
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From the producer of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the
Cast
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Keri Russell
Lacy Barrett -
Josh Hamilton
Daniel Barrett -
Dakota Goyo
Jesse, Jesse Barrett -
Kadan Rockett
Sam Barrett -
J.K. Simmons
Edwin Pollard -
L.J. Benet
Kevin Ratner -
Annie Thurman
Shelly, Shelly Jessop -
Jake Washburn
Bobby Jessop -
Ron Ostrow
Richard Klein -
Tom Costello
Young Father -
Marion Kerr
Young Mother -
Alyvia Alyn Lind
Young Daughter -
Josh Stamberg
Police Officer -
Tiffany Jeneen
Protection One Operator -
Brian Stepanek
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Judith Moreland
Janice Rhodes -
Adam Schneider
Young Husband -
Jessica Fay Borden
Young Wife -
Ken Meseroll
Pete -
Trevor St. John
Alex Holcombe -
Andy Umberger
Doctor Jonathan Kooper -
Michael Patrick McGill
Ratner's Father -
Josh Wingate
Gun Salesman -
Alexandra Fulton
Porn Star -
Scott Anthony
Porn Star
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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (45)
Time and again, Stewart squanders the opportunity to do anything remotely interesting or worthwhile ...
Top CriticThere's little to fear from this rather tame genre outing.
Dark Skies is sort of supernatural, but it's really more super natural....[it's] about the fragility of family, a muted meditation on how precious it is.
Stewart has some lofty ambitions, some of which he almost fulfills.
Those elements are employed with consummate dexterity.
Dark Skies is a bore that even the most forgiving genre buffs will find difficult to defend or endure.
What body-snatches this beyond being another haunted-home flick is the attention to family breakdown rather than another scare around the next dark corner. It's more about eerieness and creepiness than outlandish confrontations and gory shocks.
It could be a test case for copyright law.
Expectations of originality soon cloud over, leading towards the kind of quick ending at 97 minutes which kills any sign of blue sky thinking.
It's never uninteresting.
A moderately effective supernatural tale, an allegory for our anxious times in which a suburban American family appears to be targeted by some malign force that is, as we used to say, "not of this world".
A baffling bore.
Zero points for originality, but interestingly messy at the same time.
There are some good ideas here, just not enough frights.
An old-fashioned scary movie; a sci-fi horror that is a workmanlike piece of film-making, with some effective shocks, cheerfully borrowing from other sources, most obviously Spielberg.
If the dour home-invasion chiller Dark Skies needs one thing, it's aliens with more novel ideas.
Dark Skies is a good story, well told and one that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
A psychological thriller aiming to avoid the straitjacket of formula.
By parading out every tired trope from the sci-fi and horror genres, Dark Skies is unintentional self-parody, and quite dreadful indeed.
Dark Skies is a watchable supernatural thriller with a handful of effectively creepy moments, but it's let down by a clichéd script, a lack of imagination and a soporific lead performance from Keri Russell.
Dark Skies sustains tension by grounding most of the family's torment in reality.
Somehow this mishmash of borrowed ideas all comes together to create an unexpectedly solid genre movie.
A protracted and tedious build up leads to a mildly unnerving pay-off in this largely uninspired horror movie.
In this doomy surburban horror the real terrors don't come from space.
A tepid attempt at making an alien abduction yarn into a Paranormal Activity movie (a dubious enough notion at best) -- and a boring little movie.
Audience Reviews for Dark Skies
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Super Reviewer
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- Daniel Barrett: Leave my son alone!
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Anyone notice they cut out the part where Keri Russel bangs her head against the glass in the trailer? | 8 days ago | 7 |
| Fellows, please wish me well... | 58 days ago | 18 |
| If Signs, Fire in the Sky and Insidious had a baby.. this movie was good, most of you are just pretentious movie goers.. | 2 months ago | 6 |
| Now hold on guys. | 2 months ago | 5 |
| Predictions? | 2 months ago | 28 |
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