2006 · horror · mystery · sci-fi

The Dark Hour

Directed by Elio Quiroga · 1h 32m · 2006

The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptical war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo; the gays Lucas and Mateo; the astronomer Magdalena and the teenager Ana; the soldier Pedro and the lonely Judas. They are permanently is state of surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications and ammunitions, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Our read: The Dark Hour (2006) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.