Dark Summer

Offers fairly meagre chills. Still, the script has a few inventive (if not necessarily credible) moves up its sleeve.

It's hard not to think of viewing "Dark Summer" as running-time served.

There is something profoundly draining and suffocatingly incestuous about watching a film that's dedicated to watching a computer screen.

As an exercise in atmosphere, this claustrophobic creeper does a lot with a little, even if the movie winds up providing just superficial shivers.

A clumsily established premise develops into little more than a series of familiar "gotcha!" scares.

The mumbly dialogue between the three teens - realistic though it probably is - makes it hard to care too much about Daniel's housebound fate.

A crisp 80-minute horror movie that may take a few scenes to get rolling, but also showcases some very interesting ideas and a great lead performance.

An intriguing, if flawed look at the nature of obsession.

Mopes around for 82 minutes, inspiration in short supply.

Dark Summer is worth taking a chance on.

This is the kind of film that relies heavily on sledgehammer sound design and creepy imagery in the absence of a persuasive story.

It is an efficiently crafted, small-scale film with an interesting premise, although it sometimes feels like an atmospheric short that has been stretched out.