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Dark Was the Night

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Dark Was the Night	comment	Dark Was the Night is a 2014 American thriller. The film revolves around Paul Shields (Kevin Durand), the sheriff of a small Northern town of Maiden Wood. When animals go missing and trails of strange footprints appear around homes, Paul and his deputy Donny (Lukas Haas) initially dismiss it as a creative prank. However, they are quickly forced to consider a more sinister alternative: that something dangerous has moved into the woods surrounding their town.It was re-titled Monster Hunter for its release in the UK. The initial screenplay was titled The Trees. The film is loosely based on the real-life events that took place in Topsham, England in 1855. One morning, the people of the town awoke and found sets of unidentifiable, bipedal footprints. The incident became known as The Devil's Footprints.
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Dark Was the Night / int_3d69ca47	comment	Amicably Divorced: Paul and his ex-wife Susan split up after one of their sons died in a household accident. However, they clearly still care for each other.
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Dark Was the Night / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Dark Was the Night / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Abrasive hunter Jim after one of his cameras catches proof there really is something out there and he realizes Paul and Donny really are doing what they can.
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Dark Was the Night / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Dark Was the Night / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Pondered by Donny near the end of the movie, where he wonders if he was transferred from a big city to a small town because he is supposed to protect someone. Paul dismisses it.
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Dark Was the Night / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Dark Was the Night / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The foreman's death is not seen, only his blood splattering in his windshield.
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Dark Was the Night / int_5411cf1e	type	Kids Love Dinosaurs
Dark Was the Night / int_5411cf1e	comment	Kids Love Dinosaurs: Adam has a dinosaur toy on his piano in his first scene and is later shown to have dinosaurs painted on the wall of his room.
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Dark Was the Night / int_56401e68	type	Teaser-Only Character
Dark Was the Night / int_56401e68	comment	Teaser-Only Character: The foreman and logging crew killed in the pre-title sequence.
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Dark Was the Night / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Dark Was the Night / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: A Clueless Deputy Donny is not, being intuitive, loyal to his boss and willing to talk things through with him or help in the climax.
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Dark Was the Night / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Dark Was the Night / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: The logging foreman calls one of his crew on a walkie-talkie and gets a brief garbled response before the radio goes dead. He later finds the severed arm of the logger still holding the radio.
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Dark Was the Night / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Dark Was the Night / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: In a conversation with Donny, Susan reveals that the reason she and Paul separated is because one of their sons died in a swimming pool accident six months prior to the film. Paul blames himself for allowing it to happen.
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Dark Was the Night / int_75a63013	type	Farmer's Daughter
Dark Was the Night / int_75a63013	comment	Farmer's Daughter: Although she also works at a store in town, Clair, the daughter of a farmer whose livestock is attacked by the creature shares a flirtatious look with Donny when she first appears while brushing a horse and Paul says her dad shot at her last boyfriend.
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Dark Was the Night / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Dark Was the Night / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Paul has killed the creature, his family is safe, Donny is wounded but alive. Then Donny realizes a bullet wound he inflicted is absent from the monster's corpse! Cut to dozens of creatures swarming over the roof of the building they and their families are barricaded in.
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Dark Was the Night / int_7a32312a	type	Rain of Blood
Dark Was the Night / int_7a32312a	comment	Rain of Blood: After stumbling upon a member of the logging crew’s severed arm, the foreman has drops of blood fall on him, alerting him to a corpse stuffed into the tree. This is what encourages him to book it.
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Dark Was the Night / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
Dark Was the Night / int_7d152a2d	comment	Agent Mulder: Donny is quick to believe stories of something supernatural.
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Dark Was the Night / int_95af2c0c	type	Standard Cop Backstory
Dark Was the Night / int_95af2c0c	comment	Standard Cop Backstory: Paul and Donny both have elements of this.
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Dark Was the Night / int_9b045a08	type	Wendigo
Dark Was the Night / int_9b045a08	comment	Wendigo: The creature is implied to be one of these. When Paul begins searching the internet for animals with feet that match the prints found all around Maiden Wood, the camera lingers on a Wikipedia entry for windiga, an alternate spelling of wendigo.
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Dark Was the Night / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Dark Was the Night / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Jake and his ex are both good with their son.
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Dark Was the Night / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Dark Was the Night / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Steve Agee plays a logger foreman killed by the creature in the opening scene.
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Dark Was the Night / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Dark Was the Night / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Longtime local hunter Earl picks up on how something has made all of the animals disappear and reflects about how he's heard stories from his Native American grandmother that some kind of monster could be out there. He isn't immediately taken seriously by Paul, who implies that he's just trying to spook the new guy when Donny brings it up.
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Dark Was the Night / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Dark Was the Night / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: "Maybe it's adapted to its surroundings. Maybe it's learned how to hide. What if its smart enough to know that we're a threat? To know to avoid us? Until it has no choice..."
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Dark Was the Night / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Dark Was the Night / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: For the majority of the film, the entity prowling the town at night is barely even glimpsed. We can hear it. We know it's there. But we don't see it. Even during the climax, we don't get a very good look at it due to it being dark and the only light sources being flashlights.
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Dark Was the Night / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Dark Was the Night / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: The local priest is a pleasant man who encourages Paul to seek comfort from the community and allows people to take refuge in the church at the end.
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Dark Was the Night / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Dark Was the Night / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The logging foreman tries to escape in his car after discovering the logging crew’s dismembered corpses, only for his car not to start. Then the monster breaks into the back of his car, and he gets torn apart.
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Dark Was the Night / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Dark Was the Night / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In the final shot, a monster lunges at the camera.
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Dark Was the Night / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
Dark Was the Night / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: Paul and Susan separated after their son Tim died in an accident while Paul was minding him. Susan tries to get Paul to stop blaming himself for Tim's death.
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Dark Was the Night / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Dark Was the Night / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Most noticeably when the sole survivor of the hunting party stumbles up to Paul. His orange vest has been clawed to shreds.
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Dark Was the Night / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Dark Was the Night / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: The creature endures multiple shots from a pistol, one with a shotgun, and possibly one from a hunting rifle, only to recover and quickly begin attacking again. Ultimately, it is a hunting knife in the belly that kills it. Possibly averted, as there is more than one monster.
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Dark Was the Night / int_f4869601	comment	Foreboding Fleeing Flock: A sign of the monster's coming is how every animal in the area from the deer herds to the flocks of birds to the priests dog has vanished (whether they sensed the creature and ran or have been killed is unclear).
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