We start that story as you think about events that look very strange. The story begins with a young woman designed and a wounded astrologer risking their lives and lives to take on a job that seems to be the most dangerous in their lives. That dangerous task begins where they must perform dangerous rites that will give them what they want.
A Dark Song is uncomfortably atmospheric, a film that sucks the warmth from a room leaving you chilled and on edge. It is a dark, artful film set against an even darker canvass, and one that is worth seeking out from a director to watch.
The two leads are resolute soldiers about it all, but they're dutifully edgy elements in a stylist's frame instead of fully realized characters living out what is supposed to be the riskiest time of their lives.
With a cutting soundtrack and desaturated imagery, A Dark Song is a film that is gloomy, broody, but which offers little past masculine aggression and the spectacle of feminine suffering.
The primary allure lies in the way Gavin keeps us guessing - is Walker imagining the increasingly creepy occurrences during her gruelling ordeal, has Oram stage-managed them or are they real?
