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* UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: Josef has so thoroughly conditioned Alex that Alex appears to exhibit this. It's arguable that his tendency toward this just gets transferred to Mina over the course of the film.
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* StockholmSyndrome: UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: Josef has so thoroughly conditioned Alex that Alex appears to exhibit this. It's arguable that his tendency toward this just gets transferred to Mina over the course of the film.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Mina's preferred weapon, although her claws & teeth can do the job as well.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: We see Mina kill her mom right after rising from the grave, but never see what happened to the mom's boyfriend that raped and murdered Mina.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: We see Mina kill her mom right after rising from the grave, but never see what happened to the her mom's boyfriend that who raped and murdered Mina.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: We see Mina kill her mom right after rising from the grave, but never see what happened to the mom's boyfriend that raped & and murdered Mina.]]
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Mina kills her mother via NeckSnap, blaming her for letting Mira be raped by her mom's boyfriend.]]
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* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Mina kills murdered her mother via NeckSnap, blaming her for letting Mira be raped by her mom's boyfriend.]]
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* FacialHorror: Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue, and Mina's face has many gruesome stars still on it from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
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* FacialHorror: Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue, and Mina's face has many gruesome stars gaping wounds still on it from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
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* FacialHorror: Alex appears to have scar tissue where his eyes should be, and Mina's face has many gruesome stars still on her face from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
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* FacialHorror: Alex appears to have Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue where his eyes should be, tissue, and Mina's face has many gruesome stars still on her face it from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
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* EyeScream: Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue and he's completely blind as a result (indicating his abuser Josef had done this).
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* RevenantZombie: Mina appears to be motivated by rage as a result of her rape and subsequent murder, reviving while in the grave. She hates humanity initially as a result, but then becomes human again through compassion toward Alex, a boy who's also suffered horrific abuse.
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* AssholeVictim: Mina violently murders Josef Hofer, who himself is a murderer and abused a boy horribly.
* {{Bookends}}: [[spoiler:The very first scene is of a car that's driving down a forest road toward the viewer. In the very last scene, Mina gets into another car, driving off into the distance down the same road.]]
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Mina tells Alex that the woods they're in are cursed by a creature with sharpened claws & teeth that eats people alive. Alex, unable to see her inhuman appearance, insists he's not scared and is surprised Mina refers to the creature as a "she".
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Mina tells Alex that the woods they're in are cursed by a creature with sharpened claws & and teeth that eats people alive. Alex, unable to see her inhuman appearance, insists he's not scared and is surprised Mina refers to the creature as a "she".
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* CharacterDevelopment: Most of the film is about Mina changing, although Alex also changes enough to take some initiative.
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* DisappearedDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to her dad might be why Mina wants her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf, as he's raping her.
* EyeScream: Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue and he's completely blind as a result (indicating his abuser Josef had done this).
* FacialHorror: Alex appears to have scar tissue where his eyes should be, and Mina's facewould be scary to anyone (unlike Alex) has many gruesome stars still on her face from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
* GrewASpine: Alex changes from a frightened boy whocould see her.still obeys the rules of his abuser even when he isn't around to taking some initiative for himself.
* EyeScream: Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue and he's completely blind as a result (indicating his abuser Josef had done this).
* FacialHorror: Alex appears to have scar tissue where his eyes should be, and Mina's face
* GrewASpine: Alex changes from a frightened boy who
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* ImAHumanitarian: Humans are the only thing undead Mina eats, with plenty of slurping sounds & belching.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Humans are the only thing undead Mina eats, with plenty of slurping sounds & and belching.
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* JustKeepDriving: Of the hit & run variety, driven by someone we never see. See LookBothWays below.
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* JustKeepDriving: Of the hit & and run variety, driven by someone we never see. See LookBothWays below.
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* LookBothWays: [[spoiler: George, when he's running away from Mina.]]
* MadeOfIron: Appears to be a side effect of being undead. Mina attacks people without fear of their weapons, and tests a lighter's flame on her hand without feeling anything. [[spoiler: She learns that she's changing when the flame hurts.]]
* ManBitesMan: Mina does this as an ordinary teen against her rapist. [[spoiler: He beats & kills her in retaliation.]]
* MissingDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to her dad might be why Mina wants her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf.
* MadeOfIron: Appears to be a side effect of being undead. Mina attacks people without fear of their weapons, and tests a lighter's flame on her hand without feeling anything. [[spoiler: She learns that she's changing when the flame hurts.]]
* ManBitesMan: Mina does this as an ordinary teen against her rapist. [[spoiler: He beats & kills her in retaliation.]]
* MissingDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to her dad might be why Mina wants her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf.
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* LookBothWays: [[spoiler: George, when he's running away from Mina.Mina, is hit by a car on the road he flees to.]]
* MadeOfIron:Appears This appears to be a side effect of being undead. Mina attacks people without fear of their weapons, and tests a lighter's flame on her hand without feeling anything. [[spoiler: She learns that she's changing when the flame hurts.]]
* ManBitesMan: Mina does this as an ordinary teen against her rapist. [[spoiler: He beats& and kills her in retaliation.]]
*MissingDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Mina kills her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to mother via NeckSnap, blaming her dad might for letting Mira be why Mina wants raped by her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf.boyfriend.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & Alex is based on both being horribly abused by adults.
* RapeAsBackstory: We get flashbacks showing how Mina got to be this way.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & and Alex is based on both being horribly abused by adults.
* RapeAsBackstory: We get flashbacks showing how Mina got to be thisway.way, with it shown her mom's boyfriend was raping her, and murdered Mina when she resisted him.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Mina physically transforms when her behavior changes.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Mina becomes kinder in the film as she helps Alex, and thus becomes human again too, physically transforms when transforming back to her behavior changes.old self.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd be angry too if you were Mina. She's a zombie who was murdered after fighting off her rapist, and {{buried alive}}. Having to feed on humans, she's been filled with rage toward humanity ever since.
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* AdultFear: Alex's mom is worried about him and believes his kidnapper is taunting her. Mina's mom worried too [[spoiler: until Mina returned to kill and eat her]]
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Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheDark1979 1979]] or [[Film/TheDark2005 2005]] films of the same name.
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''The Dark'' is a 2018 horror film directed by Justin P. Lange, starring Nadia Alexander and Toby Nichols.
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A murderous, undead girl haunts the remote stretch of woods where she was killed decades earlier. One night, she discovers a blind boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim's cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
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* TheWoobie: Alex has been not only physically blinded, he's psychologically incapable of breaking Josef's "rules" or accepting that Josef isn't around any more for most of the film. He says his blinding happened before he knew the "rules", and he's spent a long time since then avoiding punishment by sticking to them.
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A Boy And His X is when they form a bond with the "X" that "changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood."
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* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his murderous ghoul. Often compared to Film/LetTheRightOneIn.
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* BountyHunter: The civilians in the woods are trying to obtain the reward money, with one dismissing stories of the woods dangers as just the authorities trying to keep the money for themselves.
* BrokenBird: Mina's not merely broken, but a corpse powered by rage.
* BrokenBird: Mina's not merely broken, but a corpse powered by rage.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Most of the film is about Mina changing, although Alex also changes enough to take some initiative.
* DeathFromAbove: An axe swinging down from a tree branch, in this case.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: She's angry rather than just cold, but this is much of Mina's arc.
* DeathFromAbove: An axe swinging down from a tree branch, in this case.
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: She's angry rather than just cold, but this is much of Mina's arc.
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* ManBitesMan: Mina does this as an ordinary teen against her rapist. [[spoiler: He beats & kills her in retaliation.]]
* MissingDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to her dad might be why Mina wants her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf.
* MissingDad: We don't know why the man who is presumably her father is present in Mina's photo (and a picture she draws) but absent from the house. At first it seems like loyalty to her dad might be why Mina wants her mom's boyfriend gone, but it becomes apparent her objection is on her own behalf.
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* PriceOnTheirHead: Josef is fleeing for this reason, and people are pursuing him (intending to rescue Alex) in hopes of obtaining it.
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* RapeAsBackstory: We get flashbacks showing how Mina got to be this way.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Mina physically transforms when her behavior changes.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Mina's preferred weapon, although her claws & teeth can do the job as well.
* AxeBeforeEntering: Through a wall rather than a door.
* AxeBeforeEntering: Through a wall rather than a door.
* BarrierBustingBlow: An axe through the wall after Josef sees Mina's eye. Whether or not his bullets penetrate the same wall in reply, she's much less bothered than him.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler: Mina's appearance changes as she comes to care for Alex.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: [[spoiler: Mina's appearance changes as she comes to care for Alex.]]
* HorrorHunger: Mina comes back full of rage, and hungry for human flesh.
* ImAHumanitarian: Humans are the only thing undead Mina eats, with plenty of slurping sounds & belching.
* JustKeepDriving: Of the hit & run variety, driven by someone we never see. See LookBothWays below.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: We see Mina kill her mom right after rising from the grave, but never see what happened to the mom's boyfriend that raped & murdered Mina.]]
* LookBothWays: [[spoiler: George, when he's running away from Mina.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: We see Mina kill her mom right after rising from the grave, but never see what happened to the mom's boyfriend that raped & murdered Mina.]]
* LookBothWays: [[spoiler: George, when he's running away from Mina.]]
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* BoobyTrap: There are spikes to puncture car tires near Mina's house. [[spoiler: She deliberately locks one door while leaving another unlocked, so her prey will use that one and step on a block of wood with nails sticking out.]]
* BuriedAlive: Mina was very severely hurt, but still apparently alive when buried.
* BuriedAlive: Mina was very severely hurt, but still apparently alive when buried.
* CameBackStrong: Mina was unable to defend herself when alive. She comes back a fearless killing machine.
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* IDoNotDrinkWine: When Mina attempts to eat anything other than people she's killed, she gags.
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* IDoNotDrinkWine: When Mina attempts to eat anything other than people she's killed, she gags. [[spoiler: This changes by the end of the film.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Mina does this with an axe to a man using his phone after finding Alex. Later, Alex does this to a woman pointing a shotgun at Mina.]]
* MadeOfIron: Appears to be a side effect of being undead. Mina attacks people without fear of their weapons, and tests a lighter's flame on her hand without feeling anything. [[spoiler: She learns that she's changing when the flame hurts.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Mina does this with an axe to a man using his phone after finding Alex. Later, Alex does this to a woman pointing a shotgun at Mina.]]
* MadeOfIron: Appears to be a side effect of being undead. Mina attacks people without fear of their weapons, and tests a lighter's flame on her hand without feeling anything. [[spoiler: She learns that she's changing when the flame hurts.]]
* StockholmSyndrome: Josef has so thoroughly conditioned Alex that Alex appears to exhibit this.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd be angry too if you were Mina.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd be angry too if you were Mina.Mina.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: A woman threatening Mina with a shotgun just thinks she's a teen in zombie makeup who's broken into her house.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: A woman threatening Mina with a shotgun just thinks she's a teen in zombie makeup who's broken into her house.
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* BlindAndTheBeast: Alex is the former, Mina is the latter.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Mina tells Alex that the woods they're in are cursed by a creature with sharpened claws & teeth that eats people alive. Alex, unable to see her inhuman appearance, insists he's not scared and is surprised Mina refers to the creature as a "she".
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Mina tells Alex that the woods they're in are cursed by a creature with sharpened claws & teeth that eats people alive. Alex, unable to see her inhuman appearance, insists he's not scared and is surprised Mina refers to the creature as a "she".
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Josef murders someone just for hearing a news report about his wanted status. Mina doesn't know any of this when she kills him, but what she finds out afterward from Alex makes her identify with him.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & Alex is based on both being horribly abused byadults.adults.
* TheWoobie: Alex has been not only physically blinded, he's psychologically incapable of breaking Josef's "rules" or accepting that Josef isn't around any more for most of the film. He says his blinding happened before he knew the "rules", and he's spent a long time since then avoiding punishment by sticking to them.
* TrappedInVillainy: Mina is unable to eat ordinary food and instead feeds on people, causing the woods near her to be considered cursed. [[spoiler: By the end of the film as her rage has been replaced with compassion, she is able to eat cereal and pass as human.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd be angry too if you were Mina.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & Alex is based on both being horribly abused by
* TheWoobie: Alex has been not only physically blinded, he's psychologically incapable of breaking Josef's "rules" or accepting that Josef isn't around any more for most of the film. He says his blinding happened before he knew the "rules", and he's spent a long time since then avoiding punishment by sticking to them.
* TrappedInVillainy: Mina is unable to eat ordinary food and instead feeds on people, causing the woods near her to be considered cursed. [[spoiler: By the end of the film as her rage has been replaced with compassion, she is able to eat cereal and pass as human.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: You'd be angry too if you were Mina.
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''The Dark'' is a 2018 horror film directed by Justin P. Lange, starring Nadia Alexander and Toby Nichols.
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!!''The Dark'' provides examples of:
*ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his murderous ghoul. Often compared to Film/LetTheRightOneIn.
*AdultFear: Alex's mom is worried about him and believes his kidnapper is taunting her. Mina's mom worried too [[spoiler: until Mina returned to kill and eat her]]
*BackFromTheDead: Mina appeared to still be alive when she was buried, but she claws her way out in an undead state.
*FacialHorror: Alex appears to have scar tissue where his eyes should be, and Mina's face would be scary to anyone (unlike Alex) who could see her.
*IDoNotDrinkWine: When Mina attempts to eat anything other than people she's killed, she gags.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Mina resembles a corpse and eats people, but she's fully sentient and able to pass as normal when interacting with Alex (due to his blindness). She is implied to be animated by her anger at what happened to her. [[spoiler: She transforms back into a human gradually over the course of the film.]]
*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & Alex is based on both being horribly abused by adults.
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!!''The Dark'' provides examples of:
*ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his murderous ghoul. Often compared to Film/LetTheRightOneIn.
*AdultFear: Alex's mom is worried about him and believes his kidnapper is taunting her. Mina's mom worried too [[spoiler: until Mina returned to kill and eat her]]
*BackFromTheDead: Mina appeared to still be alive when she was buried, but she claws her way out in an undead state.
*FacialHorror: Alex appears to have scar tissue where his eyes should be, and Mina's face would be scary to anyone (unlike Alex) who could see her.
*IDoNotDrinkWine: When Mina attempts to eat anything other than people she's killed, she gags.
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Mina resembles a corpse and eats people, but she's fully sentient and able to pass as normal when interacting with Alex (due to his blindness). She is implied to be animated by her anger at what happened to her. [[spoiler: She transforms back into a human gradually over the course of the film.]]
*RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Mina isn't just angry at the man who did this to her, but also at her mom for bringing him back after promising not to. The bond between her & Alex is based on both being horribly abused by adults.
