Out of the Dark

Synopsis: A young family moves to South America as the wife takes over her father's manufacturing plant in the area. They soon find themselves haunted by the ghosts of young children, leading them to a dark history and sinister behavior on the part of an American company.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): Lluís Quílez
Production: Vertical Entertainment
 
IMDB:
4.8
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2014
92 min
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Hello?

I'm home about to leave.

Okay, I'll do it right now,

but then that's it.

I'm leaving immediately.

Understood.

Who is it?

This can't be happening.

I'm sorry.

Good afternoon. We're now approaching

Santa Clara airport. It's 12:00 p.m...

Welcome to Santa Clara!

Hi.

- You look beautiful.

- Thanks, Dad.

- So grown up.

- You look exactly the same.

Look at my granddaughter.

Such a beautiful smile.

Beautiful brown eyes,

just like your mother.

I've got brown eyes, too.

You're a Harriman.

Look at the size of you!

We're gonna have to stop you

growing up too quick.

- How was the flight, Paul?

- Oh, it was fine.

Welcome to Colombia. You'll have

better weather here than in London.

Your boxes arrived safely

and they're waiting for you at the house.

Santa Clara was built around

the Aguas Rojas neighborhood.

It used to be a fishing village,

now it's grown into a town.

The fishing has gone.

Everyone works in the factory.

They're lovely people.

Very warm, very hard-working.

A little bit young, no?

Rules are a little different here.

So, Sarah, I have to travel

to Sao Paulo next week,

which means we have a few intense days

ahead of us at the plant.

- Great.

- Grandpa, what do you do in your factory?

We make paper.

And your mom is going to work there.

- She's going to be the boss.

- That's right!

And when you grow up,

if you're a good girl,

you can be the boss, too.

Unless you want to be a rock star.

Come on! Get out of the road!

Hey, can you open the window?

Here we are! This is your new home.

Come on, sweetie.

- What do you think?

- It's beautiful.

- It's huge. How did you find it?

- It belongs to the company.

Most executives don't bring their families

or they prefer to stay in town.

Nobody has lived here for years.

So, how is the art world

treating you, Paul?

You know, it's never gonna make me rich,

but it's all right, it's okay.

- Oh, you like it?

- It's a castle!

It is a castle! Here.

Hold it there. Gotcha!

She looks beautiful! Come here,

I want to show you something.

A big surprise for you down here.

- Well, it definitely doesn't suck.

- No, it does not.

It's amazing!

Don't jump!

Thank you, Jordan.

This is all very nice. Thank you.

It's my pleasure.

How do you like Hannah's house?

Yeah, it's great.

She's going to love it. Thank you.

I meant to tell you, the help will be here

tomorrow if you need a hand with anything.

Okay. Okay.

I'm heading off now,

but I'll come back tomorrow.

Take you into town, if you want

to pick up some supplies or...

- Okay.

- Thanks, Dad.

Okay. Bye, Hannah!

- Bye, Grandpa! Thank you!

- You're welcome!

Not sure why, but I thought

he was gonna hate me like...

a little less in Colombia.

Just like a little bit.

- He doesn't hate you.

- He hates me.

- We're going to be happy here.

- Of course. Of course, we will.

Dad, I can't sleep.

This room is too big.

- Okay, let's play our game.

- Okay.

Mermaid.

Dream.

Mother.

Room.

Market.

Treasure.

- Elevator.

- Good.

Rabbits!

- Turtle.

- No, no, no. Rabbits.

Silver.

River.

Rock.

Kid.

Dad.

Dark.

King.

Good.

Good night, sweetie.

Can you close that?

Of course.

This is the central market. You can find

almost everything you'll need in here.

It's especially crowded these days

because of the celebration.

What's all this about?

What are they celebrating?

It's called

"La Fiesta de los Nios Santos".

Why are they putting on those bandages,

Grandpa? Are they sick?

They're dressing up, honey.

Happens every year.

They celebrate something that happened

a long, long time ago.

Well, everything here happened

a long time ago.

Look at those candy! You like those?

What about this one? Or this one?

Break out the wallet.

We're in deep trouble now, my man.

- Yeah, I see it.

- How much is this?

You get down, I'll get the money.

- We got jugs.

- Wind chime?

I'm good for wind chimes,

right this second.

Muchas gracias.

Sarah, have you got Hannah?

- Hannah!

- Mummy!

- Sweetie, I told you to stay close.

- Silver's gone!

It's okay, you're fine, you're fine.

She's okay.

- Just try it.

- No.

- No? You didn't eat anything today.

- I'm not hungry.

Hey, kiddo, look at this.

I got your favorite dessert here.

We got strawberry yogurt, we got bananas,

we got some chocolate. What do you think?

Two little bites of this, and you get

to have all of this. What do you think?

I want Silver back.

You want Silver back?

Well, we've already talked about that.

We're going to go look

for him tomorrow, okay?

A little girl took him.

She had a mask on her face.

She had a mask on her face?

Come here. We're going to go upstairs.

Say goodnight to Mommy.

Good night, sweetheart.

And we're going to try

and calm down here.

- What do you say about that?

- Okay.

- I don't like losing my stuff, either.

- I didn't lose him. She took him!

Okay, okay, a little girl

took him, I understand.

She was pretty upset there.

She's okay now, she's asleep.

- She'll be fine.

- Yeah.

- She'll forget about it.

- She will.

- You okay? Are you a bit nervous?

- I feel like it's the first day of school.

You're gonna be great.

Come here.

I've made a cream cake. Thank you.

Would you like me to pour you some tea?

Yes, please. With sugar? Yes.

- Hey, hey.

- Hi.

- You all right?

- Yes.

- Okay, I'm gonna be over there working.

- Okay.

- Okay?

- Yeah.

- Would you like some sugar?

- No.

I've made you a surprise birthday cake.

Thank you. I can drink the tea.

I can't eat the cake

because I'm on a diet.

You look sleepy.

I can't believe you remembered

my birthday.

So, I'll give you some cake.

It's my specialty.

You can have some tea. Yes.

Thank you.

And...

Hannah!

Hannah!

Silver!

Hannah! What are you doing

out here, kiddo?

Not out of my sight,

that's our rule, you know that.

- Silver's here!

- Come here.

Okay. There's nothing there, Hannah.

- Anyway, I thought you said someone took him.

- But I just saw him.

Come on, don't make things up.

Besides, everyone knows if you spend

too much time alone in the jungle...

- you turn into a monkey.

- Dad, you're the one making things up.

Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi, Mr. Holden.

No, Paul, please. Catalina, right?

- Yeah, nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- And you must be Hannah, right?

- Hi.

Hi. I brought these for you.

Do you like stickers?

She wants to say thank you.

Say thank you, buddy.

- Thank you.

- There you go.

- You're welcome.

- Would you like to look at my toys?

- Sure.

- I'll go grab us some lemonade, okay?

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Wow! You have a lot of toys!

- I have more than eighty, I think.

- Really?

- Maybe even more, I don't know.

We changed the whole system

a few years ago.

Where's the chlorine plant?

We don't produce

our own whitener anymore.

It's cheaper to import it, and we don't

have to worry about the mercury.

There used to be a plant

over at the old mill,

but it was too dangerous.

I want to introduce you to some

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Javier Gullón

Javier Gullón (born September 1, 1975) in Logroño (La Rioja) is a Spanish screenwriter. He garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for Enemy, and a Goya Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 27th Goya Awards for Invader (Invasor).His other films have included Out of the Dark, Hierro and Aftermath. He has been married to Ayako Fujitani since 2016. more…

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