Dark Skies (2013)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 47
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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 11
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 19,084
Movie Info
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
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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
Security System Technic... -
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 (74) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (47) | DVD (2)
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.
Dark Skies unveils its horror slowly, creating a suspenseful ride that feels satisfying even though we're traveling a familiar road.
Dark Skies is a slow-burn paranormal horror film that spends way too much time on setup and not enough on reveal.
...the film, for the most part, contains many elements that have been employed in other similarly-themed endeavors...
The movie promises fireworks--and it delivers.
yet another example of horror that can't make up its mind, and as a result, can't satisfy
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.
Audience Reviews for Dark Skies
Super Reviewer
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- Edwin Pollard: People think of these beings invading our planet as some great cataclysm, but it's not like that at all. The invasion already happened. You cannot escape them. Sooner or later, when they're ready, they will take your family.
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- Daniel Barrett: Leave my son alone!
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Predictions? | 3 months ago | 28 |
| Fellows, please wish me well... | 3 months 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.. | 13 days ago | 11 |
| Anyone notice they cut out the part where Keri Russel bangs her head against the glass in the trailer? | 31 days ago | 8 |
| Now hold on guys. | 38 days ago | 6 |
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When I first saw the trailer for "Dark Skies" I thought it looked interesting, but would end up being a bad movie. While it's not a great movie, it certainly isn't bad either. Keri Russell stars as your average married mother of 2, when Aliens start to do weird, harmful things to her family. First,it's little pranks that don't do any damage, but just mess with their heads. Then 3 different flocks of birds fly into her homes, and soon each member of the family gets their heads messed with in some very inventive ways. There are some very good suspenseful scenes in this, and it's perfect for a watch at home at night. But, towards the end the movie has some big plot holes(like what they're told to do to fight the aliens, makes no sense). Overall it's a lot better than I was expecting. Horror fans, or fans of aliens movies should give it a shot. I'm sure there are a lot of people that won't like it, but if you go with it, it's not too bad. Could have been a lot worse.