Against the Dark

Against the Dark is a 2009 American action horror film directed by Richard Crudo and starring Steven Seagal.

Against the Dark
Official movie poster
Directed byRichard Crudo
Produced byPhillip B. Goldfine
Written byMathew Klickstein
Starring
Music byPhilip White
CinematographyWilliam Trautvetter
Edited byTim Silano
Distributed bySony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date
  • February 10, 2009 (2009-02-10)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$7,000,000

In a post-apocalyptic world, destroyed by a disease, which turns humans into infected strongly resembling vampires, Seagal plays Tao, the leader of a squad of ex-military vigilantes who are attempting to find and rescue a group of survivors trapped in a hospital. This is Steven Seagal's first horror film.

The film was released direct-to-video on February 10, 2009.[1]

Plot

An epidemic disease has overwhelmed humanity, turning nearly everyone into blood-thirsty infected who resemble vampires and zombies. There is no known cure and very few survivors left fighting "against the dark".

Tao (Seagal) is in charge of a group of vampire/zombie hunters. The survivors in the hospital are shown to be scared, isolated and untrusting. As the characters work their way through the hospital, they drift apart numerous times, often getting lost and attacked. To make matters worse for the survivors, a massive army base is planning to bomb the area at dawn.

The survivors must get to the one functioning exit from the hospital before the emergency power runs out and they are shut inside. To make matters worse many of the stairways and elevators are blocked off, forcing them to make their way level by level.

Meanwhile, Cross (Linden Ashby) tries to prevent Lt. Waters (Keith David) from unleashing a bombing raid on the hospital. A number of survivors and a hunter are killed and a different hunter is infected as they make their way out of the hospital. A survivor is captured by a human to be fed on by his infected daughter, but is rescued by Tao. As the humans make their way out a horde of infected chase them. As they exit the hospital just in time before the power fails the vampires become trapped inside. The surviving humans then run as jet planes bomb the forsaken hospital.

Cast

Reception

Rob Hunter of FilmSchoolRejects.com says that although the film could have been entertaining, "the idea and the execution are worlds apart" and questions the strange decisions of the survivors. Hunter praises Tanoai Reed (a cousin and stunt double of Dwayne Johnson) as the one bright spot of the film, delivering top-notch fight scenes, even if his acting could do with improvement.[2]

See also
  • Vampire film

References
  1. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/0AGTD.php
  2. Rob Hunter (February 5, 2009). "Review: 'Against The Dark' Reminds Us Why Steven Seagal Goes Straight To DVD".
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