Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

fouregycats Psychiatrist with a brain tumor spends a weekend with her husband and sister at their cabin. A knock on the door brings a young man who turns out to have a gun. Shortly thereafter, another man arrives, and he turns out to be a former patient of the doctor's, and he wants revenge. While he was in her care, he was given injections of an experimental drug that the doctor was trying on him as a guinea pig because they both have the same type of brain tumor. As the victims are held hostage, psychological games are played; I don't understand why except there has to be a reason to make this movie. Secrets are revealed, of course. I got confused at the end. I must have missed something because it didn't make any sense to me at all. But I give this film 5 stars for the good acting and the dialogue.

Robert J. Maxwell A pretty, blond, impassive psychiatrist, Greenhouse, discovers that her inoperable brain tumor has begun to grow again. The only treatment is an experimental drug that has never been authorized for use in humans because it drove the mice crazy. Something like that. Out of desperation, Greenhouse begins to use it on herself, leading to some weird changes in her sensorium.She returns home after examining her X rays, in which the tumor is helpful enough to have outlined itself with a broad white line, just in case she might have missed it. "Let's talk," she says to her amiable husband, Currie, an author working under a deadline. Not now, he tells her, because he has to retire to their dasha in the woods and get some work done.He leaves. She thinks it over. The revelation of her tumor's newfound aggression is too important to wait, so she visits the cabin, where she finds him and her harmless teen-aged sister trying to get the facilities working.The cabin is shortly invaded by two men, one of them an escaped patient whom Greenhouse had kept in isolation. There is a gun. There are a dozen attempted escapes. There is torture. There is a murder of a dog. There is reasoning and pleading, tears, anger.The escaped patient, McFee, is now perfectly rational as he and his companion put the three hostages through various "games" that wind up in a blood bath and a suicide.I didn't find it at all spooky, just tense and nasty in a familiar way, kind of like some marriages I know. The two invaders are products of Greenhouse's guilt for some unacceptable acts she has committed. At least I assume so. It gets a little twisted and confusing towards the end. Some of what is finally revealed is implausible.It's a Canadian production and it shows. I don't mean the low production values, just the accents, the absence of skill in some of the performers, and the overall tonus of the thing. It's not the usual Lifetime Movie Network film though -- too many F bombs and a bit too much blood. With a bit of pruning it could easily have fit into that format. "Let's talk" is repeated three times. "We have to talk", once.Without knowing why, I'm beginning to feel these things are really distasteful. Who wants to see people chopped up with an ax? Blood spattering all over the ax wielder? A similar situation in "Funny Games" has the invading murderers making jokes to the camera about their shenanigans. It's not funny at all but it's the kind of treatment these dumb movies deserve.

Pamela De Graff Like a brain surgeon's deftly wielded scalpel sinking into grey matter, skillful manipulation of cinematic elements merges with subtle transpositions in The Dark Hours. Along with clever segue-ways and strategically positioned ambiguity, The Dark Hours' filmmakers blur the line between objective and subjective reality in this fast-moving nail biter. It's engrossing, captivating, slickly edited and well-acted. Get ready for some disturbing twists and an unsettling climax.The Dark Hours keeps us guessing, dangling over the precipice between our home theater easy chairs, contemplating "what ifs," and fretting over what will happen next. And what happens next is just ... well just awful! For the characters in the story, that is.When institutional head-shrinker, Samantha Goodman (Kate Greenhouse) takes refuge from a personal crisis in her secluded snowbound cabin, she expects a quiet weekend with her aspiring novelist husband David (Gordon Currie) and sister Melody (Irius Graham). A worn expression about best-laid plans comes to mind, as one thing, something terrible, leads to another.Much of the action takes place after dark in Sam's remote abode, illuminated in a flickering amber candle and fireplace glow. There's a claustrophobic feeling inside the bungalow, which contrasts with the utter desolateness of the wide open, frozen tundra nightscape upon which it vulnerably sits. Hanging precariously by only a few threads, a wispy, gauze-like veneer of sanity separates the known from the uncertain. Only the cabin's frail wooden door insulates the occupants from infiltration by malevolent elements which might appear from anywhere out in the night. Indeed, such elements come knocking and once that creaky door is opened, sheer hell breaks loose.Instead of her hoped-for introspective interlude with David, from whom Samantha desperately requires emotional support, she instead discovers she's trapped in a love triangle between David and Melody. Just as Sam starts to unravel the details, the arrival of a duo of lunatics (literally) disrupts her family affair.The more the merrier, however, as the uninvited guests intend to help Sam acquire some truly objective perspective about her situation -and theirs. One of the interlopers is a patient, Harlan (Aidan Devine), with whom Samantha has a controversial history. He's escaped, and now with twitchy teenage protégé Adrian (Dov Tiefenbach) in tow, Harlan wants to impress upon Sam that he never much cared for her less-than-Hippocratic bedside manner.To boot, Harlan plans to help Sam sort out her domestic and professional issues, Jungian style. Or maybe just Nietzsche and Dr. Mengele style. Because while Harlan's diseased cerebrum is squirming like a toad, it turns out his is not the only one. Harlan detects that all present are in need of a little "psycho" therapy. Delightfully, he just happens to have a treatment regimen in mind for everyone -one which champions truth, illumination, and ... well this won't hurt a bit.OK, maybe just a LITTLE! Because it's going to start with some excruciatingly morbid games, games at gunpoint which involve a telephone, a diary and pair of cutting pliers.As the quintet prepare to venture on a schizophrenic journey of enlightenment, seamless perceptual juxtapositions provide an eerie insight to the escalating chain of developments, some of which are relayed via foreboding flashbacks and non-linear plot points. What ensues is pure bedlam when all involved spiral into a swirling maelstrom of horrid revelations and bloody confrontation.

HumanoidOfFlesh Dr Samantha Goodman(Kate Greenhouse),an attractive psychiatrist in her thirties joins her husband and sister for a weekend at a winter cottage when an unexpected guest arrives.Harlan Pyne(Aidan Devine),a violent sexual offender is convinced that Samantha conducted unethical experiments on him while she was his doctor.With the assistance of his troubled yet eager protégé Harlan forces Samantha and her family to participate in a series of nightmarish games."The Dark Hours" pleasantly surprised me.The script is tight and the violence is pretty brutal and ugly.Aiden Devine's portrayal of Harlan deserves special mention for being wickedly understated and menacing.The cinematography is dark and moody and the finale is surprising and thought-provoking.Give this harrowing film a look.9 out of 10.