FilmSci-Fi Horror Psychological Survival

Dark Encounter2019

Name: Dark Encounter
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Survival
Released: 2019-08-23
Rating: 5.6

“Don't look up.”

Directed by Carl Strathie

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.3Rotten Tomatoes 67%TMDB 5.3

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Year

2019

Runtime

97 min

Box Office

🏆 1 nomination total

The premise

A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don't realize is that these 'beings' will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl's disturbing disappearance.

Horror Vault's take

A shattered rural family, still raw from the disappearance of a young girl a year prior, finds their mourning night shattered by eerie lights descending from the treeline. What follows is an escalating, nerve-shredding encounter with something not of this world that refuses to leave them in peace. Dark Encounter blends intimate human grief with classic close-encounter dread, keeping the audience as disoriented and desperate as the family on screen. The answers it builds toward are deeply personal — and far more disturbing than a simple alien intrusion.

Content: Themes Of Child Death And Disappearance, Psychological Distress, Jump Scares, Intense Threat Sequences