Dark Touch (2013)
Storyline
Niamh is the lone survivor of a bloody massacre after the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house take on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories and the family friends and social worker who take her in try to introduce a new life. But in this psychological thriller, Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.
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Cast
Catherine Walker, Pádraic Delaney, Mark Huberman, Marcella Plunkett, Missy Keating, Charlotte Flyvholm, Art Parkinson, Anabel Sweeney, Olga Wehrly, Robert Donnelly, Ella Hayes, Susie Power, Katie Kirby, Stephen Wall, Richard Dormer, Simon Boyle, Clare Barrett, Simon O'Gorman, Tanya Shortt, Anna Fogarty, Lucy Fogarty, Laoise Murphy
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Reviews
80
Village Voice
Dark Touch, like much of the best horror, works the fears that connect to real life.
75
It's unfortunate that commercial considerations seem to play into the third act, adding a more concrete representation of a very abstract idea.
70
That space between reality and mirage is where Ms. de Van’s strength, and this movie’s true horror, lies.
60
The Dissolve
Dark Touch is meant to touch a nerve, not merely spook. It’s about deeper fears, and realer monsters.
50
Slant Magazine
The film is beholden to a strange internal logic that gives primacy not to its protagonist's suffering, but to its maker's thirst for fun.
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