# Dark Was the Night (2014)

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**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Horror, Thriller
**Directed by**: Jack Heller
**Written by**: Tyler Hisel
**Starring**: Kevin Durand, Lukas Haas, Bianca Kajlich, Ethan Khusidman, Nick Damici, Sabina Gadecki

> *Evil's Roots Run Deep*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A logging truck idles at dawn outside Maiden Woods. The chainsaws’ whine brings something else awake in the trees.

Sheriff Paul Shields smells pine and something older. By nightfall, the missing children’s toys litter the church steps.

A 2014 horror-thriller that drifts like fog over a wound.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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