Time of Darkness
Time of Darkness
| 17 April 2008 (USA)
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Four friends come to the site of an old abandoned factory in Lower Silesia, where a year ago lost their buddy. Trying to unravel the mystery of his disappearance uncover the terrible truth about their experiments in the factory.

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ada the leading man is my tpye
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
p-stepien Today. Argentina. Buenos Aires. An elderly woman looks through a fence - in anguish that she is no longer in her youth. This has faded away and anger has taken over this crippled body.A year ago. Poland. Silesia. A young entrepreneur, Adam, purchases an old mine at 5% of its full price. Accompanied by his friend he descends into the mine only for something terrible to happen to his companion.Today. Poland. Silesia. A group of friends travel to this remote area for fun. Unknown to some of them Joanna is actually in search of her brother, Adam, who went missing a year ago. In the meantime Karolina, a juvenile delinquent is transported to a local loony-bin, where she is to work in return for shortening her sentence...Sounds promising? Well... so did I. The tech credits are fine save for the overusing of screeches and noises in the most idiotic moments. Up until this point I was really questioning the bad rep this movie has - nicely filmed, the acting was decent and script seemed to be going places. But boy its rep is well deserved... The story descends into chaos incarnate pulling punches left and right ending up with an incomprehensible mess of a ending.Some of the scenes were just so bad, that a hefty laugh is guaranteed. If you watch the movie in that direction I can safely say you'll love the idiosyncrasies of this little flick and might very well cough your heart out with laughter. The worst thing in this terror of a horror is the script itself. The movie is very open-ended, but not in a good scary way. Basically many questions are left unanswered, but all the answers given seem to contradict them. Additionally film characters reach all new level highs of stupidity in horror movies. Question: What should you do if you suddenly get yanked up a mine chute and your friends at the last moment manage to save you? Answer: According to this movie you organise a campfire outside the mine entrance and start smoking weed... I kid you not.This must be how a movie looks if everyone behind the movie is constantly high on ecstasy...The only positive thing I could find in regards to this movie is Michał (played by Jakub Wesołowski), who is a mildly whacked-out crazy with the best lines and arguably the only thing resembling a character.
Maarten van Krimpen During a short holiday in Poland, it was nice to see this little horror film on DVD. I never knew that Poland had a film-industry, let alone a horrorfilmindustry. So I liked it in the sense that this is quite unique in a way that almost nobody in Poland has done this before.But the movie itself... not so good. I didn't really care about the fact that the film was full of clichés, what I really regret about it, that it's too soft. No nudity, no gore, and almost no really exciting scenes. The DVD-cover promises more than the film actually delivers.I expected a sort of Hostel-type of film, with all the saws and the bloody doctors pictured on the DVD-cover. But sadly no... the one scene with a little bit of gore was so badly lit that it was barely visible.Nice scenery though.
chingy18 Truly the acting was not the best and surly not what polish actors has to offer. Actually the only actor that has enough experience to play in that movie was the one that had almost the less important role (Jan Wieczorkowski)playing Adam. Other actors were playing rather poor but they were chosen due to the fact that in Poland we make a lot of comedies and most of the good actors are associated with this type of movie and wouldn't fit in the horror movie. I would agree that location was chosen very carefully and the background of the film is great. Who I also liked was the mentally ill boy, in my opinion he did quite a good job on his role. All in all the movie presents the level of movies made in 90's the music and flashbacks are cheap and trashy but since it is (probably) first polish horror movie I really liked it. I was trying to enjoy it throughout the whole movie and turn the blind eye to the imperfections. Quite a good movie but with Very complicated plot.
HumanoidOfFlesh Four friends come to old and abandoned factory in Nether Silesia where a year ago a friend died.So they try find out how and why he died but in the end they found an horrific truth about experiments conducted in the factory.A group of research workers kidnap them and use them as human guinea-pigs in an effort to attain immortality...Well,being Polish I wanted to see this film pretty badly,because Poland don't have any visible tradition when it comes to horror genre.Unfortunately "Pora Mroku" disappoints on almost every level.The characters are obnoxious and stupid,the suspense is completely absent,the gore is kept to minimum and the plot borrows few elements from "Hostel".On a plus side I enjoyed dirty and claustrophobic location sets and menacing electro soundtrack.5 out of 10.