This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Great Film overall

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Its hard to believe a film with only two characters could be THIS captivating! The acting was so realistic that I could actually feel what they were going through, especially Niamh Algar. This little Irish film was a huge surprise! There was a constant foreboding atmosphere and the monster was really creepy and scary. We don't learn anything about the monster and can only assume it is a vampire due to the 'symptoms'. The lack of 'jump scare music' made the film that much scarier. At times there were no music at all and only slight movement in the background. That freaked me out! It was brilliantly done, and nerve wrecking at times. The film is Jeepers Creepers-ish, only much better. Sarah (Niamh) is a very strong, likable character; a real fighter. Literally the last mili-second of the film makes you wonder what is going to happen next. 'From the Dark' is an instant classic!

*** spoiler alert *** but the movie is spoiled all by itself and really needs no help from me in that regard. Just the same, maybe I can save someone else the disappointment and time.There was plenty of potential with the movie and even with the limited cast I thought I would give it a shot anyway. What an incredible mistake that was. If you can buy into the whole blondes are dumb stereotype which I don't, then you can at least try to explain away the female character's behavior but she certainly has far more of a clue than the main male character who is painfully ignorant. You would have to work incredibly hard to be as dumb as he is and then the whole chopping off her finger thing as if that would stop the obvious blood transmitted... illness what seems to be hours after the injury occurred. Maybe it did maybe it didn't, I won't say but if it did that would certainly defy all logic being that blood circulates through the entire body 3 times per minute. I know I know, who am I to expect logic in a movie that is clearly fictitious in nature.

Haven't we seen this film before? FROM THE DARK has almost exactly the same set-up as the overrated IN FEAR, in which a young and bickering couple get lost in the Irish countryside and come up against something or somebody nasty. Thankfully, FROM THE DARK has supernatural elements and is thus interesting because of that, and better than IN FEAR, although it's still not a good film.The problem with these lo-fi movies is that anybody can make them, they're that cheap. Grab a video camera and go out for a drive in your car - you've got a film. Thus, I think the script and direction have to be really special to make films like this work, and they're not that special here. FROM THE DARK feels like it wants to be a found footage type film, with lots of shaky-cam work all the while, but what it is is dull.The script is the culprit here, failing to garner interest by keeping the foe in the shadows for 90% of the running time, and muddling the scenes when it is in the foreground. The opening scene, which brought to mind BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, was the best part for me. For most of the time we're stuck with annoying and/or whiny characters that the actors can do nothing with. The last third of the film feels particularly repetitive and uninteresting, a low stakes game where the viewer doesn't really care what happens.

This isn't a bad movie. The acting is great, the film looks big budget, which is always nice. I'm a scared cat and would I say this movie was scary? Not too much. But it did have some good scares and it isn't a complete waste of your time. If you like vampires this is a vampire movie. I think this movie could have been one of the greats in the genre if they had added some dialogue and built up the suspended that way. It's all action, not psychological and I like to both. It was still intriguing and could have been amazing like I said if they had put a story line in there with some back ground and built it up like I said. Like knowing what exactly it was or who it was chasing them and what happened to the farmer would have been nice.. It depends . Lots of people don't like to think to much about their horror and this will def appeal to that crowd. With good actors it's hard to make a terrible movie. I loved parts of Ishtar for instance. This movie has great actors and it saved it from being a not good movie. Overall I say this is def worth a watch on Netflix. I just got done watching "Deep in the Darkness". That movie had great reviews and I thought it was awful. The acting was terrible. And I just thought it was a disaster. So maybe I'm biased , I don't know. This one is very much a stretch above that monstrosity.