For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games. Mina (Nadia Alexander) haunts a lonely stretch of woods where the young childs sexually abusive father buried her battered corpse. Lensed with confidence and eerily inclined, just lacking a poignancy or urgency of more composed coming-of-self nightmares marred by tragedy. More importantly, it pulled off a finale that managed to resolve When friends from high school reunite after one of them sends an ominous text, you quickly realize that what bonds them is way more than friendship. The familial connection between Jonas and Martha is already complicated enough. Its all a matter of convenient timing. As it turns out, both Adam and Eva's worlds were created by an event in this World Three, which is actually the originalworld. The horror film The Dark begins queasily, following a man, Josef (Karl Markovics), who has absconded with a blind, bound teenage boy to a cabin deep in a shadowy wood known as Devils Den. Expanding on an earlier short film, The Dark stars the talented Nadia Alexander as Mina, a flesh-eating monster who lives in the woods. Ultimately The Dark doesnt quite reach the artistic heights that it aspires to with an experience that could have. The two bond over pain suffered at the hands of adults seen in disturbingly explicit flashbacks in Minas case, and merely implied in Alexs. Regina first met the man who would become her husband while he was on the run. My interpretation, Mina was absolutely undead: Her skin was rotting, her eyes black, skin ice-cold, she didn't feel the fire from the lighter, cereal made her sick but she couldn't get enough human innards. Slight on illumination, heavy on painful remembrance. When he re-emerged he was no longer in the 2010s but in the year 1986. While traveling throughout the 1950s, Hannah had an affair with Egon Tiedemann just as Egons wife Doris was having an affair with Agnes Nielsen. Click here for all our coverage from the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Both Adam and Eva have also come to the same conclusion about the event that caused the chaos, even if they've come to wildly different conclusions about how to deal with it. His tinkering with time travel didnt allow him to go back in time but created two alternate worlds in addition to his own origin world. She kills Josef, but spares his victim, Alex (Toby Nichols). Boy meets beast, they share heartbreaking experiences, and embark on a joint quest together. More importantly, it pulled off a finale that managed to resolve many of the mysteries of its narrative, while leaving just enough ambiguity for viewers to chew on after the credits rolled. 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Then before Mina killed her mom in the movie , her mom was on the phone saying she believed her boyfriend wouldnt do that . (I never thought she was a zombie, just a viciously beaten child left for dead who went feral). 1,043, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), 'Wheel of Fortune' Gets Awkward as Pat Sajak Snaps at Contestant for Grabbing Wheel: "Don't Touch That", 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved, Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Snow Girl' On Netflix, Where A Young Reporter Doggedly Pursues The Case Of A Missing Girl, '1899' Fans Blast Netflix For Canceling Series: "Netflix Is Run By Actual F***ing Morons", '1899's Memes Are as Insane as the Show Itself, Hoda Kotb's 'Today Show' Absence Finally Explained, but Her Return Is Still Unclear, ABC Staff Go "Zero Contact" With Amy Robach and T.J. 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By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. No time soon, since Mina killed him. Email Newsletters - Dark's Ending Explained: Who died? Nadia Alexander Mina. Tronte was first brought to Winden by his own mother, Agnes Nielsen. For a show that featured not only alternate timelines but multiple dimensions, family trees that looked like a pit of snakes eating their own tails, and more time paradoxes than you could shake a container of nuclear waste at, that is quite the impressive feat. The entire source of Minas character, like so many male-crafted women before her, is an exploitative sexual assault. That also meant Agnes and Hanno were never born. The Dark has good enough bones, but its promising act one scares soon give way to a plodding, melodramatic tale of arrested development. The ending of the DARK series shows us that Jonas and Martha successfully stop Marek from using that broken bridge in 1971 in the Origin World. But we can promise we tried to break everything down in the simplest terms possible. I didnt think Meena a zombie or undead or whatever many other reviews called her. Were in a horror heyday that marks an evolution from the 70s rape-revenge films to something richerbut not every female-focused scary movie can join that burgeoning legacy. Frankly, The Dark feels like a much better short concept than a 90-minute feature (which, coincidentally, it was). Alexs eyes have been scratched out, while Mina carries wounds from a sexual assault. My struggle is finding a tie between Mina and Alexs conjoined journey towards salvation and multiple slash-and-tear encounters. Read our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. A merciless fable with no introduction and pages ripped out; characters caught in a supernatural land of confusion too dull for ponderous sparks to fly. Six of the characters we've seen throughout the show who did not vanish after the undoing of the knot Hannah, Wller, Regina, Peter, Benni, and Katharina are having a dinner party. After some time she finally meets someone that cares about her (Alex), and the feeling is mutual, so her skin starts to heal, her skin warms, the fire hurts her, she can eat the cerealbasically her heart comes back to life (like the Grinch). That in and of itself is already magic, so her recovery is kind of an undoing of her curse. We already know that Charlotte and her daughter / mother Elisabeth were doomed to no longer exist. Nevertheless, it's a bold and imaginative effort and introduces talent worth watching. Its a film about violence born out of violence. 1,718, This story has been shared 1,573 times. she wasnt undead she was seen eating normal food at the end she was feral before beat to death and left for deat. As much of a monster as Mina has become, a fact she freely admits, shes still human enough to relate to fellow suffering and to mourn her tragic existence. But I like when a movie doesn't spell everything out, allowing for interpretation. Mina's violence is essentially defensive, or born out of understandable anger (with exploitative would-be We cant promise that everything will make complete sense; what does in this show? Anyone who existed without time travel made the cut. Time travel is tricky business so join us for a deeper dive into the mind-bending finale of Netflixs Dark. What did you guys think of this one, and how did you interpret it? Taken from the end of Chapter II this passage exemplifies the dark and ominous tone Stoker creates in the novel. As Claudia explains to Adam, the only way to set the universe right and stop the apocalypse is for Martha and Jonas to return to the origin world and stop H.G. Anyone can read what you share. If being the choicest prey for the ever-vigilant troublemaker that is misery is what makes people seek comfort and reassurance, Mark Forster couldnt have aimed Excellent story. 1,573, This story has been shared 1,172 times. Flickering Myth Limited. Alex appears just as deformed as Mina, yet hes alive and shes deceased? The horror genre can be a pipeline into the dark corners of the psyche, but the impact of The Dark is more clinical than cathartic. Instead, she survived alone in the woods and developed a fondness for spiky tire traps and murder. are registered trademarks / copyright their respective rights holders. Opening with a strange vignette in which we meet a man on the run, The Dark quickly positions Mina as a monster. He struggled to recreate time travel in the past, stranding this group in the 19th century for years. Will he be in trouble for interacting with her? For players to reach either of The Devil in Me s two ultimatum endings, Kate and Mark have to be the only characters alive before the games lighthouse scene. Davis Teaser: Betty Gilpin Is A Nun Trying To Kill An A.I. None of their ancestors were created from time travel as far as we know. Movie titles, images, etc. So much so that genre films which challenge that notion and attempt to be about something are regularly dismissed out of hand as something other than horror. By using our Services, you agree to our use of cookies. Will the luck of the Irish affect the Oscars? And since Elisabeth never gave birth to Charlotte, Charlotte never gave birth to Elisabeth. That would mean that Hanno / Noah never existed and that he never impregnated Elisabeth Doppler. Because Jonas and Martha's son sired many of the characters we met throughout the series, we watch as the family trees of several Winden families evaporate along with them. May 11 2018. Sign up to receive weekly recaps of all Morbidly Beautiful posts. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Shes a mini-monster drawing from Dafne Keens Logan performance with lesser means of animalistic attack. He was actually Marthas great great grandfather all along. 5,582, This story has been shared 5,047 times. Ending #2: Leave The Throne, Explained. And because hes blind, he cant tell right away that Mina is something more than a normal teenage girl. If you're still confused about anything that happened, we're explaining the ending and giving you answers to some of the most popular questions. There are no featured reviews for The Dark because the movie has not released yet. The story is about two very damaged young people, both victims of unspeakable trauma and very real horror. Though they both became entangled in Mikkel Nielsens life, their existence never depended on him. 3,639, This story has been shared 2,386 times. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel but it will come with a body count. Heres what happens in the Dark season 1. Its been one hell of a rollercoaster, but Dark has finally come to an end. The time spent with Alex was enough to bring her back to reality, i.e. Stephanie Malone (The Angry Princess) is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief for Morbidly Beautiful. 2,386, This story has been shared 2,257 times. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. The Dark 2018 movie mistakes. I dont often start off a review in such an ineloquent way, but the first and foremost word that springs to my head after watching The Dark is quite simply, wow. The movie played like a dark fairy tale. Could it be improved on? The psychological effect of extreme trauma is manifested in a very real and monstrous way. Toby Nichols plays Consider this your guide to what Darks ending on Netflix actually means. Man of Meda n opens during World War II, as two soldiers return to their ship, the Ourang Medan, after an expedition in China. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. Why go to that trouble? An abused, unloved (even by her mother) girl was killed and buried on cursed land (the impression that I got from the store clerk at the beginning) and rose from the dead. This brings to mind the classic ending of Thelma and Louise, in which the titular duo drive off straight into the Grand Canyon. We find escape in films filled with classic movie monsters vampires, werewolves, mutants, demons, inhuman serial killers and zombies because we innately understand that the greatest monster of all is man. Mina and Alex seem less like teenagers and more like case studies with traumas rather than personalities. As Mina recalls her despicable upbringing, Alex keeps asking when Joseph (Karl Markovics) his kidnapper will return. 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It all goes back to the clockmaker and scientist H.G. The more time they spend together, the more Mina reverts to human though circumstances demand she still murder the occasional interloper. Claudia reveals this twisty tale to Adam, who enlists Jonas to help him put an end to the time loops once and for all. After pausing she says she always loved the name Jonas. For the 7th episode of HBOs The Last of Us, showrunner Craig Mazin decided to take the audience to a flashback and explore Ellies backstory, adapted from the Left Behind DLC of the 2013 game produced by Naughty Dog. Following his sacrifice at the end of The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne is a recluse in mourning.John Blake, a young GCPD cop who has yet to become jaded by the crime-ridden city, deduces that Bruce is Meena was hitching a ride to start a new life, perhaps to find Alex. When Mina attacks and kills Josef Alex does not know how to accept this shift in his world. No time travel, no Mikkel becoming Michael, and no Jonas. Flashback to uncomfortable sexual advances or parental neglect, then snap to reality where characters must confront their darkest fears. Admittedly, the story of the friendship between these two unlikely heroes and the heartbreak of their shared suffering is far more poignant than scary. In fact, they present one of the films most glaring errors. Alex Toby Nichols is a young man held and broken by a kidnapper Josef Karl Markovics. But glaring gaps remain. Overall summary. In 2019 Mikkel went missing in the woods. Kind of movie that you didnt know you needed but you so did. Expanding on an earlier short film, The Dark stars the talented Nadia Alexander as Mina, a flesh-eating monster who lives in the woods. The rumors are true, and Josef eventually ends up in a battle for his life with girl-monster Mina (Nadia Alexander), who (spoiler alert!) The how and why of her undead resurrection is never addressed, and she appears to be the only one of her kind. murders him and eats his flesh. 13,398, This story has been shared 7,372 times. Female monsters are in vogue again, after their frequent occurrence in 80s and 90s horror films like Misery, The Craft, and The Entity. Recent indie flicks, from Thoroughbreds to Wildling, ruminate on the complex place at which terror and girlhood intersect. 5,047, This story has been shared 3,717 times. Most of Dark Season 3 told the same story in a slightly different way. Rather than relying on shocks, The Dark takes a sober approach to its realistically gruesome imagery. Somehow she becomes and undead monster who axes trespassers. That little time-looping romp between Hannah and Egon led to the birth of Silja. Just before the apocalypse happens, the first world's Jonas intercepts Flickering Myth Rating Film: / Movie: . Josef has monstrous intentions, but he is no match for the forests demons. 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