Coming Home In the Dark: Netflix Movie Review
Coming Home In the Dark: Netflix Movie Review Mean, moody and a little bit magnificent in its malevolence, Coming Home in the Dark is road trip story from hell. Based on Owen Marshall's short story, Coming Home In The Dark is the story of a camping holiday gone awry. Erik Thomson and Miriama McDowell's Hoaggie and Jill are in the beautiful NZ countryside with their two sons when Daniel Gillies' Mandrake and hooded silent sidekick Tubs (Luafutu, a considerable presence of menace with nary a word spoken) stumble into view. Interrupting Jill and Hoaggie's picnic, there's an immediate air of danger - something only exacerbated when Mandrake produces a gun.... To say more about Coming Home In The Dark's story is to rob it of the inherent tension which Ashcroft has engineered out of a threadbare story - and stretched about as far as it can go over its 90 minutes run time. In fact, even the film's synopsis ruins the finer points of the mystery that plays out from ...