DARK TOUCH

  • Marina De Van
  • Fiction
  • 2012
  • 1h30

At night, an isolated house deep in the countryside takes on a monstrous life of its own.
Objects and furniture run riot against the inhabitants, leaving 11-year-old Neve the only survivor of a bloody massacre that destroys the bodies of her parents and culminates in the death of her little brother, Ciaran.
Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve when she tries to tell them about the murderous rage of the house. She is taken in by friends of her parents who, with the help of a local social worker, try to ease her trauma by surrounding her with love and rebuilding the semblance of a normal life. But Neve doesn’t find peace. Far from it…
All around her, signs of danger continue to manifest, and her surroundings remain imbued with a lurking violence that soon unleashes itself again, erupting into further slaughter and claiming more victims.

Screenplay
  • Marina de Van
Photography
  • John Conroy
Sound
  • Tobias Rönnertz
  • Niklas Skarp
Set design
  • Tamara Conboy
Costumes
  • Lara Campbell
Editing
  • Mike Fromentin
Original score
  • Christophe Chassol
Production
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Patrick Sobelman
Coproduction
  • ELEMENT PICTURES (Irlande)
  • FILMGATE FILMS / FILM I VÄST (Suède)
Distribution KMBO
Theatrical release 10/06/2021
International seller Wild Bunch
Photos : © Karina Finegan

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