Half Light
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Actor: Demi MooreBrand: First Look Pictures
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
Published: 2006-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
Product features:
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DVD Review: stormclouds gathering in a leaden sky
Summary: 4 Stars
Demi Moore stars as Rachel Carlson, a flourishing novelist who moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her young son. Yet her demons follow her there, tangling her in a web of mystery, deception and hauntings both real and supernatural. First off, it's a stunning movie to behold from purely a visual standpoint. The opening scenes in London are so magnetic, so effective in portraying the characters' sense of accomplishment and tranquility to the viewer. Yet under the surface, even then you can sense unsettling eddies and currents. And then the illusion is shattered. Subsequently, when the film moves to little Scottish seaside village of Ingonish Cove, the natural scenery is sufficient to push the breath from you. It's a darkly beautiful setting, with cold sea swells, howling winds, the quaint little village with its houses and shops, those rolling hills, jagged black rock beaches...and the lighthouse situated on a humble jut of an island just out to sea. Moore is not the best actress in the world, granted, but she plays almost everything low key here, something that really works in the movie's favor. As well, age and a Hollywood surgeon's sculpting blade have changed her appearance enough so that at times, she appears almost unrecognizable as the well-known Demi Moore of the 1980s and 90s. Again, it works to the benefit of the movie. It helps you believe in Rachel, see Rachel and empathize with her, rather than seeing the rich-and-famous movie star Demi Moore playing a role.
Half Light is haunting, no doubt about it. It conjures emotional unease and sets a foreboding tone like stormclouds gathering in a leaden sky. We see Rachel in isolation for many sequences throughout, carrying the proceedings herself, with nothing but the coldly compelling scenery to interact with. The supporting cast is few, but effective. Most notable are Hans Matheson as Angus McCulloch and James Cosmo as Finlay Murray. The movie seems a simple enough dramatic ghost story at the onset, a tragedy and a haunting, a familiar film pattern. But then more possibilities come to light, the creepiness quotient ramps up, and what we end up with is a tale with enough grim, homicidal twists and turns to be worthy of a Tales from the Crypt episode. Unfortunately, sometimes the line between dread and fright and unintentional puerile humor is breached. Examples of this are the talking child's soldier doll that's supposed to unsettle us, but instead seems overly melodramatic, even silly. Or the time Rachel wakes from a nightmare into another into another, which reminded me of a spoof of the same in An American Werewolf in London. But for the most part, it was an effectively crafted and executed tale, one that leaves the viewer's head spinning just a little at the end as you try to put the pieces together that had been collected for the last two hours. What was real, and what was imagined? Who was who, and what were their motives? Was the supernatural presence real or not? And how many possible threads and asides from the body of the film that were left hanging at the end had meanings I might've missed? Thumbs up on this one.
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