Against the Dark

2009

Against the Dark

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Movie Info

The human population of planet Earth has been decimated by bloodthirsty vampires, and now the only hope for the few remaining survivors lies in the skills of one man who always lived by the sword. Tao (Steven Seagal) is a katana master who never met a vampire he didn't want to slay. When roving packs of vampires force the few uninfected survivors to seek refuge in an abandoned hospital, the only hope for the human race lies with Tao's special squad of ex-military vigilantes. The only cure for these creatures is execution, and that's Tao's specialty. As the hunt gets underway, Tao and his team make it their mission to ensure that the creatures of the night don't inherit the Earth.

Rating:

R (adult situations/language, nudity, violence)
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Horror
Directed By:

Richard Crudo
Written By:

Mathew Klickstein
In Theaters:

Feb 10, 2009 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Feb 10, 2009
Runtime:

94 minutes
Studio:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Cast

Steven Seagal
as Tao

Skye Bennett
as Charlotte

Jeff Chase

Tanoai Reed
as Tagart

Jenna Harrison
as Dorothy

Linden Ashby
as Cross

Emma Catherwood
as Amelia

Keith David
as Lt. Walters

David Keith

Danny Midwinter
as Morgan

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Critic Reviews for Against the Dark

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Every 15 minutes a few blood-covered stuntmen leap out from the shadows and get involved in some uneventful carnage. You'll hardly notice.

Feb 12, 2009 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

Scott Weinberg
FEARnet

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Audience Reviews for Against the Dark

Nov 25, 2013

I genuinely cannot think of a sober person who could enjoy this movie. Gorehounds will be dissatisfied with the paltry effects, action-lovers will watch this hoping to watch Steven Seagal kick ass, which he only spends about ten minutes doing, and not to any impressive standard, and for those of you who only care if a movie is "good", you'll be just as upset, because it's... Well... Not. If you read the DVD blurb, it sounds like a good premise, well, it LIES! Not only because it's actually rubbish, but also because they have part of the plot, and all the characters' names wrong. Now, I know that's probably not Steven Seagal's fault, and honestly, the guy did come up with a sweet idea, but literally not a single thing showed through in the execution. Not to mention the fact that he's basically nothing more than a support-role. There are about as many holes in the plot as a junkie's arm on payday, so even if the acting wasn't the most appalling that I've reviewed so far (which it is), it'd still be woeful. Also, the vampires are more, Zombies with pointy dentures than vampires, not in a cool 30 Days of Night kind of way, just a "Oh-lets-go-the-cheap-shit-route-and-hope-nobody-notices" kind of way. It's a bland feature with little to no good moments. Poorly filmed, and I can't understand why, what everybody paid to see was 90 minutes worth of the above picture happening real-time. Instead you get five or ten of that, fifteen of Seagal's eyecandy offsiders, and an hour of a random group of terrible "actors" annoying the FUCK out of me in every scene. Taking it all back to the beginning, I did say no sober person could enjoy this, although I think it has a bit of potential as that quater-attention-giving movie you put on in the background while you play a game of Kings that everybody talks over until the most annoying bitch dies and you all drunkenly laugh at the screen, despite not really remembering why. Who knows though, next time round we could have Steven Seagal play a vampire (an actual one this time) that'd be cool... maybe. 20% -Gimly

Gimly M Super Reviewer
Aug 16, 2010

The thing about luck is, you never know when it's going to run out. 

Lindsay Elizabeth M Super Reviewer
May 16, 2009

zombies and steven segal, he walks around with a sword looking wooden as ever, while the z list actors fill out the mayhem, not seena segal film in years, not missing much

scott g Super Reviewer
Apr 13, 2009

The first time I ever seen Steven Seagal appeared in this horror movie, but quite also action is to hunt mutants alike vampires. Believe it is familiar to The Legend. All cast are average and the action scenes are not much excitement for me.

Dean M Super Reviewer