in the dark half

Director: alastair siddons

Actor: jessica barden,tony curran,alfie hepper,lyndsey marshal

Data Published: Fri Aug 10 2012

Genres: Drama,Mystery

Key Words: child with a gun,rabbit snare,spirit,spotlighting deer,running crosscountry

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764645/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Dark_Half

Description: In the Dark Half is a movie starring Jessica Barden, Tony Curran, and Alfie Hepper. After a child dies in her care, a guilt-stricken teenager (Jessica Barden) feels threatened by a mysterious force.

Plot: Marie, a 15-year-old girl, lives with Kathy, her mother, and occasionally babysits for her next door neighbour, Filthy, a poacher who is widely rumored to have murdered his wife. Marie and Kathy have been drifting apart, and there are unresolved issues between them. Kathy's behavior has been erratic, and Marie believes that her mother plans to leave her. When Filthy's young son, Sean, spontaneously dies of apparently natural causes while Marie is babysitting him, Marie becomes obsessed with her neighbor and begins to think that his stories about spirits in the hills may be true. Filthy, devastated by the loss of his son, reacts furiously when Marie loots his traps and breaks into his house to steal Sean's favorite toy. When Marie states that she needs these items in order to appease the spirits and contact his dead son, Filthy initially dismisses the myths as idle stories he told Sean. However, Filthy eventually comes to believe Marie and commits suicide to be with son, whom he believes to be lonely. Before he dies, Filthy urges Marie to return to her own father, and Marie realises that she has repressed her mother's suicide; instead of living with her mother, she has been working through her grief and denial while ignoring her father. Having come to terms with this loss, Marie reunites with her father.