The After Dark film series has offered hits and misses over
the past few years with more misses than hits. This holds true with it's latest
offering DARK CIRCLES.
Alex and Penny are a young couple with a new baby who decide
to move out to the suburbs instead of live in the hustle and bustle of the
city. Thinking this is a better way to raise a child of course we viewers know
that nothing of the kind can take place and of course the child and family will
soon be placed into jeopardy.
The new child is not the best at behaving and seems
determined to keep the two of them awake most of the time. Why they can't
figure out that they could sleep alternating shifts until the child develops a
better sleep pattern is ignored so that we can have them suffer sleep
deprivation. This is especially odd since Alex is a musician who works from
home trying to compose music. Then again a new house is being built next door
by a crew that seems to think they get paid more if they make more noise. With
each passing day things seem to get worse.
Eventually things reach and extreme and the pair both begin
seeing a strange looking woman in and around the house. Could this be some
spectral image that they are seeing or is it just a hallucination due to their
sleep deprivation? Time will tell as the movie glides along at a snails pace
feeling more like it is repeating scenes rather than offer a coherent plot
line.
These characters don't seem to make the best of decisions
from start to finish. One that especially seemed odd to me was that they do
their best to be loving, caring parents. But as the grind gets to them Alex
meets a young girl working a check out counter at the local grocery and asks
her to come baby sit for them. Call me crazy but I never once considered having
some teenager I just met working the local grocery counter become the person I
trusted with my child. Stranger yet is when they come home and she's no longer
there they don't seem as upset as I would have been.
The final solution to the story here is actually fairly
decent but the time it took to get there was wasted. This would have made a
decent segment of NIGHT GALLERY years ago but as an entire feature it takes to
long and feels more like it was padded to get it to feature length.
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