Leif Jonker's Darkness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Leif Jonker's Darkness |
| Original title | Darkness |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leif Jonker |
| script | Leif Jonker |
| production | Leif Jonker |
| music | Michael Curtis Leif Jonker |
| camera | Leif Jonker |
| cut | Leif Jonker |
| occupation | |
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Leif Jonker's Darkness (OT: Darkness ) is an American independent film by Leif Jonker. The splatter film , shot in 1993, is about vampires terrorizing a small town.
action
Tobe barely survives a massacre at a gas station. A mysterious vampire kills all of the customers and then disappears into the night. Tobe has now made it his business to bring down the vampire and pursues him to an old house. He kills several vampires, but the one he's looking for has already moved on.
Meanwhile, his friends Greg, Kelly, Jodie, Dianne and Steve want to have fun. You go to a concert and go through the night. The group separates at three o'clock in the morning. When Greg, who has been plagued by nightmares for a long time, comes home, his parents are already dead. Tobe shows up at the last second to rescue Greg and Dianne, who was attacked by their parents. Meanwhile, Steve and Kelly encounter a group of vampires. While Kelly manages to escape, Steve is mangled.
The remaining friends hide in a house and wait for the sunrise. Only Jodie, who wanted to go to a bar, meets a vampire. This transforms him and uses him against his friends. Just before the sun comes up, Greg, Kelly and Tobe are separated. Greg confronts a vampire and kills him, but is injured himself. Kelly and Tobe flee across a river and can kill a horde of vampires by pouring holy water into the river. The three meet again and are trying to reach the highway when Jodie approaches with a group of vampires. They run for their lives as the sun rises and the vampires melt and burst. But Greg also dies because the vampire bite has slowly turned him into a vampire.
Greg wakes up from a dream and Kelly calms him down. The two go heavily armed to finish off the last vampire.
background
Leif Jonker made the film with the help of a few friends when he was in college . The film was shot in Wichita on Super 8 on a very low budget . The film was later marketed in the United States through Film Threat Video Magazine .
An import version was also released in Germany by the Manic Entertainment label, but without German synchronization . A German VHS and DVD version was later released via Astro Entertainment , which contained a 107-minute Director's Cut version under the subtitle The Vampire Cut . A second edition came through the Laser Paradise label . The sound and picture quality are below average for both DVD versions.
criticism
Leif Jonker's Darkness is a vampire film that puts a lot of emphasis on bloody special effects and splatter scenes and is actually just a series of scenes of violence. The story is negligible. At the time of publication, the film received a number of very good reviews in the horror film trade press and words of praise from, among others, director Don Coscarelli .
Detlef Klewer describes it in his book The Splatterfilm as an "extraordinary, interesting amateur horror flick with above-average effects of the bloodiest kind, whose rapid staging outweighed the weak script and quickly made Jonker famous in insider circles".
Web links
- Leif Jonker's Darkness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cuts from US tape - German unchecked by Leif Jonker's Darkness at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Detlef Klewer: The splatter film . Medien Publikations- und Werbegesellschaft, Hille 1997, ISBN 3-931608-17-4 , p. 180-181 .
- ^ Review. Esplatter.com, accessed August 12, 2010 .
- ^ Review. (No longer available online.) Dvdresurrections.com, archived from the original on December 16, 2010 ; Retrieved August 12, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Overview of the different versions. Online film database , accessed August 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Internet and Magazine REVIEWS of the original release version: DARKNESS. 13thdrem.com, October 11, 2007, accessed August 12, 2010 .
