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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sophia lying about her fluency in German results in Solomon getting a small cut on the palm of his hand. [[spoiler: Her lying about why she wanted to do the ritual got him stabbed in the stomach]].
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* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Sophia main motivation. The fact that she didn't tell Solomon botches the ritual.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Both main characters are named after figures within the occult. Joseph Solomon being named after King Solomon (also allegedly the author of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''), and Sophia being an entity from Gnostic mythology.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The angel manifest as a beautiful human shaped being back-lit by glowing white light, but it is so massive that it has to stay bent forward and with one knee to the floor and its head still reaches the ceiling.]]
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mythology whose name means "wisdom".
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The angelmanifest manifests as a beautiful human shaped human-shaped being back-lit by glowing white light, but it is so massive that it has to stay bent forward and with one knee to the floor and its head still reaches the ceiling.]]
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The angel
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Dewicking A Date With Rosie Palms which is now an index.
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* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Film]]: Nearly the entire film takes place within a single house.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The demons Sophia encounters are very much human in appearance, and use household tools for torture.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Solomon asks Sophia to strip for him, presumably because they are about to perform ritual sex. Instead, he asks her to bend over and jerks off.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After months of being trapped inside the house, dealing with Solomon's constant abuse, and being tortured by demons, Sophia finally meets her guardian angel, who she asks to grant her the power to forgive and move on.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After months of being trapped inside the house, dealing with Solomon's constant abuse, and being tortured by demons, Sophia finally meets her guardian angel, who she asks to grant her the power to forgive and move on.]]
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The angel manifest as a beautiful human shaped being back-lit by glowing white light, but it is so massive that it has to stay bent forward and with one knee to the floor and its head still reaches the ceiling.]]
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* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:The demons that overrun the house cut off one of Sophia's fingers when they torture her.]]
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* ClosedCircle: After a certain point, the house becomes untethered from reality and an any attempt to leave [[GoingInCircles leads right back to it]].
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* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:Sophia's son was murdered by some teenagers seeking to perform a ritual of their own.]]
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* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:Sophia's son was murdered by some teenagers seeking to perform a ritual of their own.]]
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''A Dark Song'' is a 2016 Irish independent horror film, written and directed by Liam Gavin and starring Steve Oram and Catherine Walker.
It tells the story of Sophia (Walker), an Englishwoman tormented by the untimely death of her child, who rents a remote house in Wales and hires the services of the occultist Joseph Solomon (Oram) to perform a long, complicated and dangerous ritual to summon her guardian angel. If done successfully, she’ll get to right a terrible wrong from her past, but if the ritual is not perfect, they will be endangered by demons.
For all intends and purposes, it is ''SummoningRitual TheMovie''.
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! ''A Dark Song'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Jerkass}}: Solomon is a highly unpleasant, very abusive individual.
* GeometricMagic: The ritual is based around geometric figures, mainly circles, but also squares and triangles.
* PointOfNoReturn: Once the house is sealed within the circle of salt, there is no turning back. The ritual must be seen through to its conclusion or there will be terrible consequences.
* RitualMagic: The only way to contact the guardian angel is through a long and complicated ritual.
* SaltSolution: The first step of the ritual is to seal the house from the outside world with a circle of salt.
* SummoningRitual: The entire movie is based around the performance of one, showing it to be a grueling month-long endeavor.
It tells the story of Sophia (Walker), an Englishwoman tormented by the untimely death of her child, who rents a remote house in Wales and hires the services of the occultist Joseph Solomon (Oram) to perform a long, complicated and dangerous ritual to summon her guardian angel. If done successfully, she’ll get to right a terrible wrong from her past, but if the ritual is not perfect, they will be endangered by demons.
For all intends and purposes, it is ''SummoningRitual TheMovie''.
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! ''A Dark Song'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{Jerkass}}: Solomon is a highly unpleasant, very abusive individual.
* GeometricMagic: The ritual is based around geometric figures, mainly circles, but also squares and triangles.
* PointOfNoReturn: Once the house is sealed within the circle of salt, there is no turning back. The ritual must be seen through to its conclusion or there will be terrible consequences.
* RitualMagic: The only way to contact the guardian angel is through a long and complicated ritual.
* SaltSolution: The first step of the ritual is to seal the house from the outside world with a circle of salt.
* SummoningRitual: The entire movie is based around the performance of one, showing it to be a grueling month-long endeavor.
