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Dark August (1976)

Horror | 87 minutes
2,50 10 votes

Genre: Horror / Mystery

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Martin Goldman

Stars: J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry and Kim Hunter

IMDb score: 5,1 (850)

Releasedate: 1 January 1976

Dark August plot

"A young girl dies ..."

A man accidentally kills a little girl and decides to drive on. However, the victim's father appears to have occult gifts and casts a curse on the perpetrator. The man is forced to enlist the help of a spiritualist who must help him fight this curse.

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Strange film. I think the expectations you have beforehand can color your viewing experience so let me start with:

- This is hardly horror, and hardly mystery. The words occult and spiritualist suggest that things like satanism etc. are exploited, but that is not the case! There is a tarot card reading, but more in a Happiness/Linda way. A spell is also spoken, but this is done so incredibly down to earth that nowhere does the expectation arise that something actually happens.

-The cover above has nothing to do with the movie, it doesn't appear in the movie and there is no hint of anything similar in the movie.

What it is: a somewhat boring character study about a man who accidentally runs over a girl: what it does to his wife, his ability to concentrate and to a small extent also how he is stigmatized. The 'demon' is barely visible and is never labeled as scary, more like a figment of the man's imagination. Very little happens in the film anyway now that I think back on it. Still, I liked the atmosphere and I appreciate the effort to view spells and the occult in a tea-with-your-neighbor way. Friendly almost. That's how tarot reading works in real life. Just at the coffee table, with obvious conclusions such as: I see that you have a hard time letting go of the death of a young person. Nice to have seen, but this is difficult to recommend to horror lovers or fans of the occult.

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