Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell star in this old fashioned scary horror from the director of Legion
Writer-director Scott Stewart made his debut a few years ago with Legion, a fantastically unsubtle supernatural horror starring Paul Bettany as an improbably badass avenging angel. Now he has calmed down – a little – and made an old-fashioned scary movie; a sci-fi horror that is a workmanlike piece of film-making, with some effective shocks, cheerfully borrowing from other sources, most obviously Spielberg. Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell are Daniel and Lacy, a couple in a classic US suburb with two kids. Lacy is an estate agent, but her husband, a designer, is unemployed. The grownups are tense and unhappy, and the kids are acting up. Lacy is coming downstairs at night to find the furniture disordered; their youngest said the "sandman" told him about it. Later, unpleasant marks show up on the children's bodies. Is this a case of family dysfunction and abuse? Or could it be that creatures from another planet have insidiously invaded their home? As I say, the shock of the new is not among the shocks, and this movie even includes the time-honoured horror trope of the child's drawing innocently depicting something horrifying, something that has survived a dozen spoofs.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/apr/04/dark-skies-review
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