***SPOILER ALERT*** Excellent psychological thriller involving psychiatrist and doctor Samantha-or just plain Sam- Goodman, Kate Greenhouse, who gets involved with one of her former patients gay serial murder Harlan Pyne, Aidan Devine, and his accomplice the creepy and rodent-looking Adrian, Dov Tiefenbach.
The two break into Sam and her husbands writer David's, Gordon Currie, cottage where their spending the weekend together with Sam's kid sister Melody, Iris Graham, talking over old times. It turns out that Harlan has been very upset with Sam in her series of mind games that she played with him back in the mental institution. Now with him having her, together with David & Melody, where he wants them Harlan decides to give Sam a taste of her own medicine.
We learned earlier in the film that Sam is suffering from a malignant cancerous Ruckman brain tumor that's expected to take her life within a year. Taking large doses of Demenopril, the only medication that can possibly shrink the tumor, has Sam's mind play tricks on Sam that plays right into the sick and murderous games that Harlan has in store for her!
***SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON***These mind games that Harlan plays with Sam as well as David and Melody together with the drug Demenpril distorts Sam's sense of reality to the point where she envisions that David and Melody are having a affair behind her back.
The second half of the movie has Sam completely lose it in that her sense of guilt, in her feeling that she miss-evaluated Harlan back in the mental institution, and her suspicions of her husbands and sisters infidelity leads her to do unspeakable things to herself. When it's-the nightmare- finally over Sam realizes that her mind,effected by her brain tumor, had more to do with her uncontrollable paranoia then even Harlan did! And it was that paranoia that not only caused Sam to lose her mind but her life as well!
P.S Despite being one of the better psychological horror dramas released back in 2005 ""The Dark Hours" only generated a meager $423.00 at the box office during it's entire release. Released in just one theater, The Two Boots Pioneer Theater on East 3rd Street, in Manhattan's East Village on October 13, 2005 the movie barley lasted a week! Even though it received favorable reviews from prestigious newspapers like the NY Times as well as other media outlets. It's surprising that the film wasn't released straight to video-or DVD-where it would have made a much better, together with word of mouth, showing.
The two break into Sam and her husbands writer David's, Gordon Currie, cottage where their spending the weekend together with Sam's kid sister Melody, Iris Graham, talking over old times. It turns out that Harlan has been very upset with Sam in her series of mind games that she played with him back in the mental institution. Now with him having her, together with David & Melody, where he wants them Harlan decides to give Sam a taste of her own medicine.
We learned earlier in the film that Sam is suffering from a malignant cancerous Ruckman brain tumor that's expected to take her life within a year. Taking large doses of Demenopril, the only medication that can possibly shrink the tumor, has Sam's mind play tricks on Sam that plays right into the sick and murderous games that Harlan has in store for her!
***SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON***These mind games that Harlan plays with Sam as well as David and Melody together with the drug Demenpril distorts Sam's sense of reality to the point where she envisions that David and Melody are having a affair behind her back.
The second half of the movie has Sam completely lose it in that her sense of guilt, in her feeling that she miss-evaluated Harlan back in the mental institution, and her suspicions of her husbands and sisters infidelity leads her to do unspeakable things to herself. When it's-the nightmare- finally over Sam realizes that her mind,effected by her brain tumor, had more to do with her uncontrollable paranoia then even Harlan did! And it was that paranoia that not only caused Sam to lose her mind but her life as well!
P.S Despite being one of the better psychological horror dramas released back in 2005 ""The Dark Hours" only generated a meager $423.00 at the box office during it's entire release. Released in just one theater, The Two Boots Pioneer Theater on East 3rd Street, in Manhattan's East Village on October 13, 2005 the movie barley lasted a week! Even though it received favorable reviews from prestigious newspapers like the NY Times as well as other media outlets. It's surprising that the film wasn't released straight to video-or DVD-where it would have made a much better, together with word of mouth, showing.