Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution
assistance from MVD Entertainment Group, has tabbed Feb. 11 as the DVD debut
date for writer/director József Gallai’s Spirits
in the Dark.
An eerie, abandoned (seemingly so) building, where
people have vanished before, is the setting for this tale of grief and ghostly apparitions.
Gil (played by filmmaker József Gallai) has recently
lost his wife Stephanie (Beáta Boldog — Gallai’s real life wife, who also produced)
during childbirth and now finds himself very much alone. We learn that the pair enjoyed exploring old
abandoned buildings (which seems very odd) and when a mysterious email arrives,
complete with a video sequence that seems to suggest the ghost of Stephanie
might be lurking in a mysterious — and obviously abandoned — building, it is
just too much for Gil to ignore.
Why the video?
Who is the sender? Who shot the
video? Questions that any reasonable
person might ask, but Gil is all in, hook, line and sinker … and so off he goes
in search of the location and soon finds it.
There are hints and clues that things have happened there before, which
would have sent any reasonable person scurrying for the exits. Not Gil, who documents his exploration of
the sinister place, and in doing so takes us with him.
Filmmaker József Gallai deftly blends narrative
footage with linkage “found footage” to craft a creepy tale of things that go
bump in the night. Spirits in the Dark
delivers exactly what it promises … an eerie, ghostly tale of haunted digs and
a fool who is hell-bent on exploring such places where reasonable people would
avoid like the plague.
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