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The Dark released 2006
starring Sean Bean ( of Sharpe) Maria Bello, and the two girls Sophie Stuckey as their daughter Sarah and Abigail Stone as Ebrill.

for fans of British scare shocking and sychological horror, Welsh Mythology, Sean Bean then this film is for you, the sceneray is amazing in this film.

One of the living in exchange of one of the dead from the land of Annwyn or the inbetween underworld, is the basis of the film some very disturbing scenes throughout.

[font=Franklin Gothic Medium][size=4]While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her teenager daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). They see a weird memorial without the plate and with the name "Annwyn" marked, and the local farm hand Dafydd (Maurice Ro

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just ordered it...
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It is really worth watching I enjoyed the mythology part of it and I can see how people believe in it so much I may get the book I think it is called Sheep Ill find out the authors name and post it on here.
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approached this film with some trepidation, after reading so many negative reviews of it. I need'nt have worried, as its a little gem.
The story concerns a mother and daughter(Maria Bello and Sophie Stuckley) who have travelled to Wales from America to visit the father of the child,James, played by the excellent Sean Bean. There is also a farmer who works on James's land who tells of old Welsh myths and legends, of the Welsh Otherworld called Annwn, and how fifty years ago a preacher led his congregation in a mass suicide off the cliff edge.
Soon after, the child Sarah dissapears, and is presumed drowned, only for the mother to start seeing glimpses of a child around the house, not her daughter but a strange child called Ebril, who claims to know the whereabouts of the missing child
There are elements of lots of other films present here, The Ring, The Others, The Orphanage, but this film still feels fresh and can chill on occasion. Abigail Stone, a young Welsh actress is excellent as the mysterious Ebril, playing the parents off against eachother, and there is excellent support from Maurice Roeves as the secretive farmer Dafydd.
All in all, an excellent little chiller, well worth watching, and deserving of wider recognition.
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100 thats a lot of money huh?
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Foggy is just so loose with his cash he squeeks with every buttock movement!
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this is not a bad effort ,sets the spooky pace from the opening shot and theres lots more to come.kind of gets under your skin and leaves a bad taste in your beak. i think certain areas of wales still believe in this and why not,land of beauty and mystery,staying away from the cliff tops on my next visit...
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Sums it up, a slow pace riveting film. The slow pace only adds to it. Did i tell you i live on the cliffs!
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