Dark Circles

Synopsis: Haunted house film about a pair of sleep deprived parents who begin to experience disturbing visions after moving from the city to a country estate. Alex and Penny have just become parents of a baby boy when they decide that the city is no place to raise a child. Relocating to a farmhouse, the couple finds their relationship deteriorating due to the demands of caring for a newborn, including a lack of sleep. When Alex and Penny begin seeing a mysterious woman around the house, they at first dismiss the sightings as hallucinations brought on by sleep deprivation. But as the visions appear more often, the parents are forced to consider that evils are at work in their home. By the time the truth about their new home is revealed, their tenuous grip on sanity has already begun to slip.
Genre: Horror
Director(s): Paul Soter
Production: After Dark Films
 
IMDB:
5.1
R
Year:
2013
87 min
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Hello?

Are... Are you okay?

Do you speak English?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Here.

Come in, come in. Here.

I'm gonna get you a doctor.

Lie down right here.

You're okay?

Okay, yeah, just lie down.

Oh, my God. Oh, God.

Sh*t.

Okay.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Please.

Please, please don't.

I'll do anything. Please.

Alex?

Alex?

What?

You thirsty?

Yeah.

Okay. All right.

All right. All right.

Careful.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

Thank y'all. Thank y'all.

All right, all right.

We let Alex shine a little bit

on that last one.

The bad news is our man won't be

with us too much longer.

He's decided to leave the nest.

Fly off on his own.

Think you can handle it?

All right. Two, three, four...

Look, there's a reason why you can

get a big house in the sticks for dirt cheap.

It's a wasteland.

It's not set.

I mean, one day she wants to go,

the next she wants to stay.

She's all over the map.

It's a pregnancy thing.

Well, if you think it's such a great idea,

then why wait?

I knew it.

You don't wanna go.

- You don't wanna go.

- It'll be fine.

Three hours away?

I'm never gonna see you.

I just can't imagine

raising a baby in the city.

This house, it is like

a Malibu Barbie dream house.

I mean, this would be a project for me,

not some client.

And Alex is cool with it?

Absolutely.

I mean, he's in the middle

of finishing up all these demos

and even ifjust a couple of them pay off,

then he can support me.

I'm very happy for you.

Thank you.

Oh, God.

You know what that look was, right?

Yes, I do.

I understand you're strapped,

but she'd be just as happy

with a placeholder ring.

I don't wanna be that guy.

I'm not gonna get her a piece of sh*t.

Okay, okay. I thought

maybe you were one of those people

who doesn't believe in marriage.

Your parents were married, right?

Three times each.

Now we're getting someplace.

So sorry.

When you stare at us while you're talking,

then we know you're talking about us.

Women have amazing powers.

Can I get you a non-alcoholic beer?

No, we have to go back to the office.

We have to finish up some work.

- Work?

- Yeah.

Yeah, you guys are going to Chippendales,

where some oily guy's gonna

give her a lap dance.

I don't have a lap.

Bye.

May I?

May you what? What are you... God!

Oh, my God, my back!

It's all these things

I never thought about before.

Like, I don't have a little brother,

I don't have a little sister,

I never even babysat,

and now I worry about everything, like,

what if I drop him on his head?

No, I'm being serious.

They come with skulls.

My mother's a disaster.

I mean, what if that's genetic?

What if I inherit

all her maternal incompetence?

I don't think there's a gene for that, Penny.

Penny?

- Penny?

- Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

- Yeah.

- Oh, my God!

- Yes.

- Oh, my God!

Michael. God damn it,

why don't you answer the phone?

Listen, if you're still with Alex,

tell him we are at the hospital.

We can't a hold of him and Penny is in labor.

Call me when you get this.

Okay.

- It's gonna be okay.

- Okay.

I missed it.

It happened really fast.

I can't believe I missed it.

Come in, come on, here.

Hey.

Okay.

Thanks.

Hey.

So tell me everything.

Honestly, I don't even remember.

It's like I blacked everything out.

He's so cute.

You're so cute.

Okay. This is your dad.

Hey.

That's your dad, huh?

Boy, we can just

about handle anything now, huh?

This side is up.

Hey, I know you're working,

but I talked to the realtor in Stanton.

I told him if he cut his fee in half,

we could close the deal right now.

He must be sick of my haggling

because he went for it.

I just think we have to do it.

It's such a steal.

We'd be crazy to pass this up.

And I really believe

I can turn it into something spectacular.

Anyway, I'll grab something from Carmines

on the way home.

We can start hammering it out.

I just wanna make sure

you're okay with this.

If you're having any doubts at all,

just let me know. Okay?

I love you so much.

Well, it looks a little dreary

in the late months.

But you know, in the spring with plants,

trees, I mean, it's gonna...

We could just paint it, paint the brick.

It's from Michael.

"May this beautiful tree

represent your growing love

"and blooming hopes, and blah, blah, blah."

- Does it really say, "Blah, blah, blah"?

- Yeah.

Tanner.

Hi, buddy.

You just hangin' out?

Oh, yeah.

Inspired yet?

There's something I don't mind

being left behind.

Yeah, just something else

we couldn't have in the city.

How would you like your rib-eye cooked?

I'm sorry. You okay?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Get rid of that thing.

Well, now everything we cook's

gonna taste like baby.

That's not funny.

That's in the kitchen.

Out back. And this one goes upstairs.

Hey, hold on! Hold on!

I'll... I'll help you with that.

Here, I'll get the door.

You've gotta be kidding me.

This was... This was supposed to be gone.

Can your guys get this sh*t outta here?

No, no, no.

You gotta arrange for a junk man.

I cannot put my piano

in there with this stuff.

So what, just leave it here on the ground?

What is all this crap?

Sorry.

How's little T?

He's good. He's napping.

Can I give you a hand with anything?

No, but maybe later

you could help me with the monitor?

Okay.

Poor girl.

Probably wondering

what she did to deserve this.

A lot of crap in here.

Sh*t!

No!

God damn it! God damn it!

Are you on channel A or channel B?

Channel B.

Got it.

Should I put it back on the shelf?

You don't have to yell.

I can hear you through the monitor.

Okay.

Yeah, put it back on the shelf.

I think you have it pointing at the ceiling.

You need to point it down to the crib.

All right, that's it.

Just move it a little bit to the left.

What's wrong?

Oh, God.

Where are you taking my mom?

I'm sorry, babe.

I love your mother, but the effect

with the camera was a little creepy.

- Well, what about the monitor?

- It's good.

Move it two inches to the right.

What's goin' on with him?

I don't know, but I cannot go back in there.

That counts as a turn.

Oh, God.

What the hell is that?

Oh, my God.

- What's going on?

- Oh, my God.

I don't know.

- Let's go see.

- Yeah.

I don't understand.

I'll check it out.

Why don't you take him inside?

I'm gonna throw up.

How could we not know?

We saw it on a Sunday.

We moved in on a Sunday.

We can't live like this.

With Tanner not sleeping?

It was his first night like that.

We'll... We'll get rest.

You need quiet.

I'll manage.

I mean, that was the whole point.

Nah, we'll be fine.

I mean, how long can this last?

A few weeks?

B*tch!

Alex?

Son of a b*tch!

These dumbasses didn't

hook up the dryer exhaust.

I could hear you all the way

upstairs in the bathroom.

I didn't know I was that loud.

No, it must be the pipes.

Just another charming

idiosyncrasy of this house.

I got it.

You know, I don't like you

leaving the baby alone up there like that.

No, I... I've got the Internet hooked up.

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Paul Soter

Paul Soter (born August 16, 1969) is an American actor, writer, and director, and one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. As a child, he lived in Sacramento, Anchorage, Phoenix, and Denver. He graduated from Colgate University and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. During his time there, he was a member of the Charred Goosebeak troupe along with the members of Broken Lizard. more…

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