The Dark Hour2006

Name: The Dark Hour
Genre: Survival, Sci-Fi Horror, Supernatural, Monster & Creature
Released: 2006-10-06
Rating: 5.9

Directed by Elio Quiroga

5.9

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.8TMDB 5.5

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Year

2006

Runtime

92 min

Box Office

🏆 14 nominations total

The premise

The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptical war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo; the gays Lucas and Mateo; the astronomer Magdalena and the teenager Ana; the soldier Pedro and the lonely Judas. They are permanently is state of surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications and ammunitions, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Horror Vault's take

Deep underground, a small band of survivors has scraped out an existence beneath a world annihilated by nuclear war, raising a child who has never seen the sun. Their fragile routine is governed by strict rituals — not just to avoid contaminated mutants prowling the ruins, but to endure a daily window of supernatural terror known as the Cold Hour. When the twin threats above and below ground begin to converge, the group is forced to consider the unthinkable: ascending to a surface no one believes they can survive. This Spanish genre hybrid layers post-apocalyptic sci-fi dread with genuine ghostly menace in a single, suffocating setting.

Content: Violence, Threat To A Child, Post-Apocalyptic Peril