DARK SKIES 2013 - Movie Review and Full Story
Written and Directed by: scott stewart
Produced by: JasonBlum, Couper Samuelson, Jeanette Brill
Main Cast: Keri Russel, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett
Released on: February 22, 2013
Trailer :
Trailer :
The Story :
The movie shows about a family of 4, a mother Lacy, father Daniel and their 2 sons Jesse and Sammy living together. Lacy and Daniel’s marriage was on rocks because of their financial situation and they always used to fight due to that. Lacy is a real estate dealer and Daniel don’t have a job but trying to get one. Whereas Jesse and Sammy used to talk to each other via walkie talkie from their room, in order to console Sammy who gets upset due to their parents fight. Jesse tells him the horror stories about the Sandman who throws dirt on children’s eyes and makes their eyes fall and collects and feeds it to his children. When Sammy got frightened and asked his brother, if Sandman comes to collect his eyes, he consoled Sammy by saying that Sammy’s eyes were pretty small so he would come and collect his own instead.
Daniel attended an interview but he was never selected. But he said a lie that he might get select to Lacy which later she comes to know and that triggers another fight. They both were very stressed due to their financial crisis and even were thinking about cutting some extra bills out of TV cable and burglary alarm. But then very weird incidents started to happen in their home, such as all the kitchen stuffs were arranged as a stack and a weird symbol was projected on the ceiling as the reflection. Lacy saw that and asked Sammy if he did it, but Sammy replied that the Sandman did it before meeting him. But Lacy thought he must have been speaking about a dream.
The next day an officer visits their home to check on it and confirmed that no forced entry has been made, so it must have been done by someone in the house itself, particularly the kids. But advised Daniel to set back the burglary alarm as it is worth the money. Lacy takes her clients to the home she supposed to sell to whom she talks about his first son Jesse, who used to be very sick when he was a kid and all right now. That night when Daniel and Lacy were fighting the burglary alarm rings but Daniel received a call saying that it must be a false alarm. But they noticed that all the pictures from their show case frames were removed and empty. The officer again said it must be the work of kids, but when Daniel and Lacy talked to the kids Sammy said that was the Sandman again but the Sandman asked him not to tell anyone about it, later Jesse tells him that the Sandman is an illusion not real. When Daniel mistakes that Sammy took the photos and in order to cover up his guilt he is using the name of Sandman he goes and searches for the photos in Sammy’s room but never get it. Lacy was worried about Sammy and asks Daniel to take him for a psychiatric therapy session but he denies talking about their financial situation.
The next day Daniel takes Sammy to a park where in the midst of other kids Sammy pees on his pants and starts screaming without his knowledge. Lacy at home, was informed about it and she sees a drawing of Sammy about a child holding hands of a humanoid, when a group of birds came and attacked their home like they were pulled towards their home and died. People came and collected those birds, and informed that they were three different flocks from three different directions. Came and hit the home as if they were pulled towards it. That night Lacy went to Sammy’s room listening to him talking to someone, but saw a humanoid figure beside his bed but when she switched on the light she found no one there and she started searching for Sammy and Daniel joins her. They found Sammy outside their home and he says he don’t remember about coming out of the house.
The next day Daniel fixes surveillance camera throughout the house in order to make sure what is wrong. He wakes up near the computer and rewinds and plays the video captured by the surveillance camera but saw some disturbance in between. The next day Lacy went out of mind when she was with a client and banged her head on the glass door and wakes up in her home and found that she lost 6 hours. She was asked to stay at home till she becomes all right by her higher official and this makes her upset. There she started to search on the answers for all these weird incidents happening to them on internet and got an answer as they have been visited by the Aliens. At the same time Daniel gets a job and they both celebrate it, but that night Daniel goes out of mind and stood in the middle of their backyard with his mouth wide opened. He saw it all on the surveillance camera but says he don’t remember anything. Then Lacy tells him what she found but he did not accept it and says it was crazy. She also tells him about a 5 year old kid who drawn a picture of him holding hands with an alien along with 2 other aliens just before he vanished. And also showed another picture which resembles the same but was drawn by Sammy. Daniel was not convinced and promised her that he will take care of things and asked her not to panic. The next day when Sammy was with Lacy’s friend Karen’s family went to swimming with them but she notices marks on Sammy’s body at the same time Jesse had a nervous breakdown when he was playing with his friend Ratner. The doctor found some marks on Jesse too which they mentioned as some marks applied with a brand.
They informed the Child protective service as a precaution. Daniel beats up Ratner thinking he did those marks to Jesse and everyone started thinking that Daniel is going psycho. Daniel notices that the disturbance in the video, when played slow shows 3 humanoid figures standing beside the bed of each person of the family and started believing Lacy. They meet Edwin Pollard who is a specialist, and talks about their problem. Edwin says that the aliens visiting them are referred to as ‘The Grays’, and many had already been visited by them and all these resulted in abduction. Edwin asks them several questions and tell them that they must probably already have implants through which the Humanoids controls them, makes them see which is not true and alarm ringing in their head kind of stuffs. Lacy sees a wall full of missing children’s pictures due to alien abduction on Edward’s home and worries about her children. Edward also tells them that the Aliens would abduct the one with whom they first made contact with and asked them all to stick together which is a way to avoid abduction, which have succeeded in certain cases.
Daniel buys a gun and covers up all the windows and doors where Lacy buys an aggressive dog as a prevention measure. It was on the Independence Day night and when the kids wished to see the fireworks Daniel switched on the TV and they were all talking about the kids’ first experience on the Independence Day. And suddenly all the lights started flickering and the dog starts to bark at the main door aggressively. The Daniel pulls up his shotgun and asks Lacy to be safe with the kids upstairs, where she takes a knife and guards the kids after she puts them both in Jesse’s room and asked him to protect Sammy. When a humanoid diverted her and locked her in another room. The main door was opened with a bright light, and Daniel shoots at the light asking the humanoids to leave them alone and goes upstairs and saves the kids and they all lock them up with Lacy. Where 3 Aliens comes and everyone started to shout out of fear when Jesse blackouts and sees an illusion of his brother running through the hallway and runs behind to catch him, Daniel crying after shooting Lacy saying that he ruined everything and shoots himself, his friends watching tv in a room and calling him too. But suddenly hears his parents calling his name and comes out of illusion where he sees his parents standing with Sammy, and the grays comes out of nowhere all of a sudden and surrounded Jesse and abducted him.
Edwin includes Jesse’s picture on his wall along with other missing children. Three months later, Daniel and family moves to another apartment where they sets up a room for Jesse on a hope that he might return. Daniel speaks to the lawyer since he and Lacy was the suspects on Jesse’s disappearance case when Lacy gives Sammy some of his dolls and stuffs where he got his Walkie Talkie. At the same time Lacy was going through Sammy’s old stuffs where she found more drawings of grays and a drawing such as him holding hands of the humanoids, which indicates it was Jesse who was contacted by the Aliens at first, Lacy remembers that Jesse used to get sick always when he was a kid and understand it was because of these Aliens implants. Whereas in walkie talkie they all started to hear some noises and disturbances and when Sammy starts to speak in it Jesse screams at his name. And there it ends!
This movie has got 38% of Rotten Tomatoes and 51% of popcorn, whereas IMDB rated it 6.2/10. According to me this is one of the Alien abduction movies and could be seen once for sure.
My personal rating for this film would be 3/5. Thank you J- Suchitra
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