‘Within the Darkness’ and ‘Truth or Dare’ Use a Similar Special Effect?
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Indican Pictures has just shared with us the trailer and first imagery from Jonathan Zuck’s Within the Darkness, which follows several ghost hunters in search of fame and fortune who instead raise a demon. The timing of the release is interesting – April 3, 2018, just ten days before Universal Pictures’ Truth or Dare.
The timing is of importance because both films share a similarity, the special effects. Yes, they both have antagonists with tweaked and exaggerated facial expressions. This becomes a “chicken or the egg” conundrum, one that I won’t even pretend to know the answer to. Who did it first? Did one copy from the other? Did they both have the same effects crew? Is it a coincidence? I have no idea, but the effect is cool.
While the effects are similar, the stories are completely different. The trailer for Within the Darkness shows several paranormal non-believers at a seance. Once the ritual gets under way, demons are summoned into an abode. Now, a ghoul is reaching out to everyone from the ceremony, while drawing them down into the pits of Hell.
The film stars Tonya Kay (“Criminal Minds”), John C. Bailey (Clowns, 2014), Shanna Forrestall (The Last Exorcism), and Cheyenne Phillips (The Sandman).
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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