Dark Memories
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dark Memories |
| Original title | Ring Around the Rosie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rubi Zack |
| script | Alex Barder , Jim Suthers , Michael Tabb , Rubi Zack |
| production | Alex Barder, Lawrence Silverstein , Rubi Zack |
| music | John Massari |
| camera | Mark Woods |
| cut | John Coniglio |
| occupation | |
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Dark Memories is an American horror film from 2006. The original English title Ring Around the Rosie is the English counterpart of the nursery rhyme " Ringel, Ringel, Serien ".
action
Karen Baldwin works successfully in the advertising industry, but is also plagued by nightmares. After the death of her grandmother, she inherits their country house. As she dies, her grandmother reminds her that she was last there when she was 13 with her younger sister Wendy and her grandfather. She's going there one weekend with her fiancé Jeff. On the way they have to clear a dead stag from the road. On site you can see immediately that the house first needs to be cleared out and renovated. Above all, Karen struggles with her unrest. A certain door in the house unsettles her, pictures shoot through her head and when Jeff wants to have sex with her that night, she feels uncomfortable. Then she takes a look behind the mysterious door.
The next day she finds an old doll that brings back memories of childhood with her sister. Suddenly a horse is at the door. Karen follows the animal and meets a man named Pierce, who introduces himself as caretaker and looks after horses. It looks creepy to Karen. Jeff's question about honeymoon bothers her. After another restless night, Jeff leaves the house. So Karen is alone with Pierce for the time being.
In the evening she is crouching in front of a box with old photos when she suddenly hears heavy footsteps. Cold air blows in through a balcony door. Karen panics and falls from the upper floor of the house. Pierce catches her and takes her with him to his hut, from where no help can be reached by phone. He tells her that he only travels in his head. After Karen has stayed in the hut, Pierce invites her to take a walk through the adjacent forest, where she was not allowed to be as a child. She almost falls into a crevice, but Pierce saves her again.
Then she receives a surprising visit from Wendy. While the two sisters are looking at photos and talking about childhood, Pierce comes in and prepares breakfast for them. Wendy's nosebleed , then goes outside, where Pierce tells her to rock and chop wood. Karen flips through an old children's album by the sisters before she sees Pierce behead two chickens. In the evening she tells Wendy about her fear and asks her to sleep in bed with her. That night she has a new nightmare. She sees the young sisters sitting together singing " Ring around the Rosie " and then her sister in the present with a bloody face.
The next day, the sister was having a pillow fight when Pierce picks Karen up for a ride. The horse goes through it. After a bath, Karen goes to bed in the evening. She sees her younger self with the doll in hand. She tries to calm down, but then follows the voice calling "Come play". She sees the young sisters arguing about the doll before her young self walks through the mysterious door. When Karen enters the room beyond, Pierce suddenly appears and tries to rape her . Karen runs out into the woods and almost slides back into the ravine before Pierce saves her. On the way back to the house, he tells her something about Josef Mengele and his experiments with twins . One twin was tortured and the other was supposedly treated kindly.
The next day, Deputy Anderson comes by because Jeff can't reach Karen and is worried. After the policeman did not see anything conspicuous around the house, Pierce immediately asks critically and claims to be able to protect Karen better. At dinner he flirts with Wendy. Karen then wants to drive away with Wendy, but the car does not start.
After vomiting, she smashed a mirror and injured her hand in the process. Instead of in bed, she discovers Wendy in the hut, where Pierce yells at her. He likes Wendy, but she can't dance. He tries to rape her, but Karen walks in and threatens him with an unloaded rifle. She rams a poker in his leg and he beats her with a belt. Wendy overwhelms Pierce and the sisters flee into the house. Pierce follows the two women and when he attacks the sisters again, Wendy falls from the balcony in the pouring rain. Karen stabs the attacker with a piece of glass.
While she is mourning the dead Wendy outside, Jeff walks up to her. But then there's nothing to see of the sister and Jeff says that Wendy has been dead for seventeen years. Pierce has also disappeared and the hut is a junk room. In the sisters' children's album, Karen now sees newspaper reports on a previously blank page of an accident in which a girl fell to her death. As she leaves the house with Jeff, she sees the young Wendy with a white dress disappearing into the forest. In a final vision, a man comes to the bed where the girls are sleeping.
synchronization
The German synchronization was carried out by Scalamedia GmbH in Munich. Dialogue direction was directed by Peter Woratz , the dialogue book was written by Stefan Sidak .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Karen Baldwin | Gina Philips | Christine Stichler |
| Wendy | Jenny Mollen | Sonja Reichelt |
| Pierce | Tom Sizemore | Thomas Albus |
| Jeff | Randall Batinkoff | Martin Halm |
| young Karen | Hayley McFarland | Marcia from Rebay |
| young Wendy | Krystal Rohrer | Lara Wurmer |
| grandmother | Frances Bay | Eva-Maria Lahl |
reception
The film received mostly negative ratings. The reviewer from kino.de writes: “Popular haunted house clichés come together when a rational urban plant sniffs the country air and is harassed by demons of the past in a horror story halfway to a psychological thriller , which is part of the classic school .” The author makes a similar comment filmdienst.de; he sees a “meek psychological thriller full of stereotypes that does not leave out any of the relevant haunted house clichés”. The film is also criticized at cinema.de: “You wait and wait for something to happen. Meanwhile, the constant clinking of the music box, the meaningless, shaky flashbacks and the constant screeching of the girls are annoying. "Christian Genzel rates Mannbeisstfilm more positively:" If you disregard the fact that the fun is quite predictable and that the film tries hard to be ominous over long stretches work, there are definitely worse employment opportunities [...]. The mood is very good, the tension build-up works, and the film doesn't always jump for the next best, predictable moment of shock. "
Web links
- Dark Memories in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dark Memories in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Dark Memories . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Dark Memories. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Dark Memories. kino.de, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Dark Memories. Film service, accessed January 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Dark Memories. cinema.de, accessed on January 21, 2020 .