The Dark is a 2005 horror film, based on the novel Sheep by Simon Maginn.
While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her obnoxious and volatile pre-teen daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). By the side of a cliff, they see a weird memorial with evidence of a plate missing and with the name "Annwyn" (Welsh for the afterlife) marked on it. A local man Dafydd (Maurice Roëves) explains th...
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The Dark is a 2005 horror film, based on the novel Sheep by Simon Maginn.
While in Wales visiting her husband James (Sean Bean), Adele (Maria Bello) tries to fix her relationship with her obnoxious and volatile pre-teen daughter Sarah (Sophie Stuckey). By the side of a cliff, they see a weird memorial with evidence of a plate missing and with the name "Annwyn" (Welsh for the afterlife) marked on it. A local man Dafydd (Maurice Roëves) explains that, according to traditional Welsh mythology, Annwyn is a sort of afterlife.
Later, Sarah vanishes on the beach, and another similar looking girl, named Ebrill (Abigail Stone) (Welsh for "April"), appears in her place. Ebrill is the long-dead daughter of a local shepherd who also served as the town's pastor fifty years prior. When Ebrill, who was a sickly child, died, her father gave her to the ocean, sending her to Annwyn. He then convinced his followers to throw themselves into the ocean, claiming that it was the way to Paradise, while he...
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