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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ray takes his sister out to watch what look like vents of steam on the family's lawn. What the steam is, or what's causing them, is never explained and never brought up again.
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[[caption-width-right:268:"They'll come for us."]]
''After Darkness' is a 2019 apocalyptic thriller that follows a wealthy family waiting for rescue after the sun mysteriously burns out, plunging Earth into darkness. At first things seem okay for the Beaty family, but as time goes on and supplies run out, tensions run high, and their chances of survival grow ever smaller...
!! The movie has the following tropes:
*AbusiveParent: Raymond: He mentally abuses, insults, and berates his wife and children, to the point where one of his daughters killed herself rather than put up with it any longer.
*AmbiguousEnding: It's left up to the viewer to decide if [[spoiler: the sun really did re-ignite itself, or if the ending is the Beaty family heading into the afterlife]].
*AmbiguousSituation: Did [[spoiler: Georgina add the posinous berries to the dinner she was cooking at the end?]]
** Did [[spoiler: the sun really re-ignite at the end, or is it just a sun in the afterlife?]].
*AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: And, depending on your interpretation of the ending, everyone does]].
*ApocalypseHow: Class 4, possibly 5 [[spoiler: Possibly none, if the sun really comes back to life at the end]].
*BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ray takes his sister out to watch what look like vents of steam on the family's lawn. What the steam is, or what's causing them, is never explained and never brought up again.
*BigScrewedUpFamily: ''And how'': Family patriarch Raymond is an abusive husband and father who rules his family with an iron fist and isn't above insulting and berating anyone who dares go against his orders. His wife, Georgina, is still emotionally broken after the death of her daughter five years earlier, the eldest son, Ray, hates his father, younger son, Fred, is a coward who has presumably been bullied into submission by Raymond, and as a result, pretty much everyone is miserable and unhappy. Fred even says that everyone in the family is a coward and that they deserve each other.
*BravingTheBlizzard: The characters do this as the film goes along and it gets colder and colder outside.
*CensoredChildDeath: [[spoiler: If the sun does not re-ignite itself and the Earth continues to freeze, then Margot's recently-born infant is doomed after the two leave the Beaty mansion]].
*ChekhovsGun: It's mentioned that Abbey died after eating poisonous berries on the family's property. [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Ray brings some of those same berries in to be mixed in with the family's last dinner]].
*ControlFreak: Raymond is strongly implied to be this, as he insults and berates anyone who disobeys his instructions and orders.
*CosyCatastrophe: The Beaty family reside in a large, well-stocked mansion that has plenty of food and all the comforts of modern life. They're able to even celebrate a birthday while waiting for rescue (though it's not a happy one).
*CoversAlwaysLie: The film's box art depicts a figure walking towards a dead, snow-covered city, and three of the film's characters inside a tunnel. [[spoiler: No cities appear due to the film taking place almost entirely within the Beaty mansion, and the tunnels don't exist]].
*DeathWorld: The extinction of the sun causes temperatures to plunge across the globe, with the implication that everyone will eventually freeze to death.
*DespairEventHorizon: Crossed a few times during the story, most notably when [[spoiler: Raymond learns that there will be no rescue]].
*DirtyBusiness: With their supplies running low, Raymond takes Fred out hunting. When they fail to find anything, they come across a truck with a dead driver and a barking dog; Raymond shoots said dog for food.
*DisasterScavengers: Raymond sees some going through a neighbor's house after killing the occupants. [[spoiler: two of them invade the Beaty's mansion at the climax]].
*DomesticAbuse: Raymond verbally abuses his wife and children and has done so for years.
*DrivenToSuicide: Abbey killed herself five years prior to the film rather than deal with her abusive father any longer.
*DullSurprise: Raymond seems unfazed when he sees rats eating his stockpiles of food. [[spoiler: He still doesn't seem bothered when their supplies get critically low near the end]].
*[[spoiler: EsotericHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler:If you take the ending as the Beaty family making it into the afterlife, then it should be a happy ending... but in the final seconds of the film, a very noticeable ScareChord starts playing, as if something ominous is about to happen, complete with a final shot of Ray looking at his family before turning away]].
*FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: The family does this at the very end when they realize that no one is coming to save them and their supplies are almost gone]].
*FalseReassurance: Raymond keeps telling everyone that help is coming; Ray doesn't believe so... [[spoiler: and it turns out there isn't, but Raymond sincerely thought there was. Used straight, in that he keeps telling everyone that help is coming even when he knows no one is coming]].
*FleeingForTheFalloutShelter: Or, rather, waiting for help to take them to the fallout shelter.
*FromBadToWorse: The Beaty's situation continues to grow more dire as the film goes on and supplies start to run out.
*GlacialApocalypse: With the sun extinguished, it's implied that Earth will eventually become too cold for anyone to survive. [[spoiler: Subverted if you believe the sun re-ignites itself at the end of the film]].
*GoldDigger: Raymond accuses Margot of becoming Fred's girlfriend just so she could come with the family to the tunnels for safety.
*HatesTheirParent: Ray has no love for his father at all. Considering how he treats everyone, it's no surprise.
*JerkassHasAPoint: Raymond berates Fred and Margot for having a baby while, presumably, knowing that the sun was going to be extinguished, and asks how they're going to care for it when it's born when there won't be any hospitals or medical care available. They can't answer his question.
*JustBeforeTheEnd: The beginning of the film starts just before the sun goes out, and the rest of the film deals with the fallout after it does.
*KarmaHoudini: Raymond never faces any repercussions for his abusive behavior. However, he does noticably soften up after [[spoiler: his suicide attempt]], including telling Georgina how grateful he is that she married him, and seems to have at least made peace with his children, even if there is no reconciliation.
*KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Margot and her infant's presumed fate, if the sun didn't re-ignite at the end. Could also apply to the entire human race]].
*LetsGetOutOfHere: At two seperate points, Margot wants to leave the mansion rather than put up with Raymond's abusive behavior and asks Fred to come with him. Also done with Ray's boyfriend, who asks him to leave the family.
*Patricide: Ray sneaks into his father's study intending to kill him... [[spoiler: but changes his mind and doesn't go through with it]].
*LongLastLook: Margot does this to Fred before [[spoiler: she leaves the mansion with the baby]].
*MercyKill: [[spoiler: Ray gives his mother some poisonous berries to mix into the family's dinner when it's clear that no help is coming. It's left ambiguous if she puts them in or not]].
*NaturalDisasterCascade: With the sun going out, Earth is shrouded in permanent darkness, which will lead to trees dying and a collapse in the food chain, not to say anything of the planet freezing solid.
*PapaWolf: Despite his status as an abuser, asshole father, and control freak, Raymond is still serious about protecting his family from intruders. [[spoiler: He kills one such intruder near the end, and manages to get the second one out of the house]].
*PleaseDontLeaveMe: Ray's boyfriend begs him to come with him so they can spend their last days together. However, Ray chooses to stay with his family instead.
*PosthumousCharacter: The Beaty family included a daughter named Abbey who killed herself five years before the film's events. Her death emotionally shattered her mother and most of the family to the point where no one wants to talk about her.
*SelfMadeMan: Raymond sees himself as this, and despises anyone who wants to inherit things from their parents.
*SnowedIn: Though not physically trapped inside their mansion, the Beaty family eventually can't go outside due to the extreme cold.
*SpitefulGluttony: In the first family meal together, Ray helps himself to some of his sibling's food after they leave after being insulted by Raymond.
*StiffUpperLip: Raymond keeps telling his family that help is coming and insists on the family keeping up their daily routine.
*TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
*ThePromisedLand: The Beaty family is waiting for rescue that will take them to some caves where they'll be safe from the darkness and the cold on the surface. [[spoiler: It turns out there are no caves and apparently never were]].
*TheStoic: Raymond steadfastly believes that help will come to evacuate.
*TheUnReveal: Why the sun is going out is never explained. [[spoiler: Nor, if you interpret the ending one way, how it manages to re-ignite itself]].
*TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A particularly bad example: [[spoiler: the trailer shows the final shots of the film, with the Beaty family standing outside and looking up at the sun]].
*UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Margot leaves the family at the end of the film, taking her baby with her. Her ultimate fate is left ambiguous]].
*YouOweMe: Raymond apparently was a big factor in getting a senator elected to Congress, and uses that to pressure said senator to send help.
[[caption-width-right:268:"They'll come for us."]]
''After Darkness' is a 2019 apocalyptic thriller that follows a wealthy family waiting for rescue after the sun mysteriously burns out, plunging Earth into darkness. At first things seem okay for the Beaty family, but as time goes on and supplies run out, tensions run high, and their chances of survival grow ever smaller...
!! The movie has the following tropes:
*AbusiveParent: Raymond: He mentally abuses, insults, and berates his wife and children, to the point where one of his daughters killed herself rather than put up with it any longer.
*AmbiguousEnding: It's left up to the viewer to decide if [[spoiler: the sun really did re-ignite itself, or if the ending is the Beaty family heading into the afterlife]].
*AmbiguousSituation: Did [[spoiler: Georgina add the posinous berries to the dinner she was cooking at the end?]]
** Did [[spoiler: the sun really re-ignite at the end, or is it just a sun in the afterlife?]].
*AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: And, depending on your interpretation of the ending, everyone does]].
*ApocalypseHow: Class 4, possibly 5 [[spoiler: Possibly none, if the sun really comes back to life at the end]].
*BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ray takes his sister out to watch what look like vents of steam on the family's lawn. What the steam is, or what's causing them, is never explained and never brought up again.
*BigScrewedUpFamily: ''And how'': Family patriarch Raymond is an abusive husband and father who rules his family with an iron fist and isn't above insulting and berating anyone who dares go against his orders. His wife, Georgina, is still emotionally broken after the death of her daughter five years earlier, the eldest son, Ray, hates his father, younger son, Fred, is a coward who has presumably been bullied into submission by Raymond, and as a result, pretty much everyone is miserable and unhappy. Fred even says that everyone in the family is a coward and that they deserve each other.
*BravingTheBlizzard: The characters do this as the film goes along and it gets colder and colder outside.
*CensoredChildDeath: [[spoiler: If the sun does not re-ignite itself and the Earth continues to freeze, then Margot's recently-born infant is doomed after the two leave the Beaty mansion]].
*ChekhovsGun: It's mentioned that Abbey died after eating poisonous berries on the family's property. [[spoiler: At the end of the film, Ray brings some of those same berries in to be mixed in with the family's last dinner]].
*ControlFreak: Raymond is strongly implied to be this, as he insults and berates anyone who disobeys his instructions and orders.
*CosyCatastrophe: The Beaty family reside in a large, well-stocked mansion that has plenty of food and all the comforts of modern life. They're able to even celebrate a birthday while waiting for rescue (though it's not a happy one).
*CoversAlwaysLie: The film's box art depicts a figure walking towards a dead, snow-covered city, and three of the film's characters inside a tunnel. [[spoiler: No cities appear due to the film taking place almost entirely within the Beaty mansion, and the tunnels don't exist]].
*DeathWorld: The extinction of the sun causes temperatures to plunge across the globe, with the implication that everyone will eventually freeze to death.
*DespairEventHorizon: Crossed a few times during the story, most notably when [[spoiler: Raymond learns that there will be no rescue]].
*DirtyBusiness: With their supplies running low, Raymond takes Fred out hunting. When they fail to find anything, they come across a truck with a dead driver and a barking dog; Raymond shoots said dog for food.
*DisasterScavengers: Raymond sees some going through a neighbor's house after killing the occupants. [[spoiler: two of them invade the Beaty's mansion at the climax]].
*DomesticAbuse: Raymond verbally abuses his wife and children and has done so for years.
*DrivenToSuicide: Abbey killed herself five years prior to the film rather than deal with her abusive father any longer.
*DullSurprise: Raymond seems unfazed when he sees rats eating his stockpiles of food. [[spoiler: He still doesn't seem bothered when their supplies get critically low near the end]].
*[[spoiler: EsotericHappyEnding]]: [[spoiler:If you take the ending as the Beaty family making it into the afterlife, then it should be a happy ending... but in the final seconds of the film, a very noticeable ScareChord starts playing, as if something ominous is about to happen, complete with a final shot of Ray looking at his family before turning away]].
*FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: The family does this at the very end when they realize that no one is coming to save them and their supplies are almost gone]].
*FalseReassurance: Raymond keeps telling everyone that help is coming; Ray doesn't believe so... [[spoiler: and it turns out there isn't, but Raymond sincerely thought there was. Used straight, in that he keeps telling everyone that help is coming even when he knows no one is coming]].
*FleeingForTheFalloutShelter: Or, rather, waiting for help to take them to the fallout shelter.
*FromBadToWorse: The Beaty's situation continues to grow more dire as the film goes on and supplies start to run out.
*GlacialApocalypse: With the sun extinguished, it's implied that Earth will eventually become too cold for anyone to survive. [[spoiler: Subverted if you believe the sun re-ignites itself at the end of the film]].
*GoldDigger: Raymond accuses Margot of becoming Fred's girlfriend just so she could come with the family to the tunnels for safety.
*HatesTheirParent: Ray has no love for his father at all. Considering how he treats everyone, it's no surprise.
*JerkassHasAPoint: Raymond berates Fred and Margot for having a baby while, presumably, knowing that the sun was going to be extinguished, and asks how they're going to care for it when it's born when there won't be any hospitals or medical care available. They can't answer his question.
*JustBeforeTheEnd: The beginning of the film starts just before the sun goes out, and the rest of the film deals with the fallout after it does.
*KarmaHoudini: Raymond never faces any repercussions for his abusive behavior. However, he does noticably soften up after [[spoiler: his suicide attempt]], including telling Georgina how grateful he is that she married him, and seems to have at least made peace with his children, even if there is no reconciliation.
*KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Margot and her infant's presumed fate, if the sun didn't re-ignite at the end. Could also apply to the entire human race]].
*LetsGetOutOfHere: At two seperate points, Margot wants to leave the mansion rather than put up with Raymond's abusive behavior and asks Fred to come with him. Also done with Ray's boyfriend, who asks him to leave the family.
*Patricide: Ray sneaks into his father's study intending to kill him... [[spoiler: but changes his mind and doesn't go through with it]].
*LongLastLook: Margot does this to Fred before [[spoiler: she leaves the mansion with the baby]].
*MercyKill: [[spoiler: Ray gives his mother some poisonous berries to mix into the family's dinner when it's clear that no help is coming. It's left ambiguous if she puts them in or not]].
*NaturalDisasterCascade: With the sun going out, Earth is shrouded in permanent darkness, which will lead to trees dying and a collapse in the food chain, not to say anything of the planet freezing solid.
*PapaWolf: Despite his status as an abuser, asshole father, and control freak, Raymond is still serious about protecting his family from intruders. [[spoiler: He kills one such intruder near the end, and manages to get the second one out of the house]].
*PleaseDontLeaveMe: Ray's boyfriend begs him to come with him so they can spend their last days together. However, Ray chooses to stay with his family instead.
*PosthumousCharacter: The Beaty family included a daughter named Abbey who killed herself five years before the film's events. Her death emotionally shattered her mother and most of the family to the point where no one wants to talk about her.
*SelfMadeMan: Raymond sees himself as this, and despises anyone who wants to inherit things from their parents.
*SnowedIn: Though not physically trapped inside their mansion, the Beaty family eventually can't go outside due to the extreme cold.
*SpitefulGluttony: In the first family meal together, Ray helps himself to some of his sibling's food after they leave after being insulted by Raymond.
*StiffUpperLip: Raymond keeps telling his family that help is coming and insists on the family keeping up their daily routine.
*TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
*ThePromisedLand: The Beaty family is waiting for rescue that will take them to some caves where they'll be safe from the darkness and the cold on the surface. [[spoiler: It turns out there are no caves and apparently never were]].
*TheStoic: Raymond steadfastly believes that help will come to evacuate.
*TheUnReveal: Why the sun is going out is never explained. [[spoiler: Nor, if you interpret the ending one way, how it manages to re-ignite itself]].
*TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A particularly bad example: [[spoiler: the trailer shows the final shots of the film, with the Beaty family standing outside and looking up at the sun]].
*UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: Margot leaves the family at the end of the film, taking her baby with her. Her ultimate fate is left ambiguous]].
*YouOweMe: Raymond apparently was a big factor in getting a senator elected to Congress, and uses that to pressure said senator to send help.
