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Hold the Dark
Directed by
Jeremy Saulnier
TV-MA
2018
2h 5m
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5.7
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After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate her son in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Cast of Hold the Dark
Jeffrey Wright
Russell Core
Alexander Skarsgård
Vernon Slone
James Badge Dale
Donald Marium
Riley Keough
Medora Slone
Julian Black Antelope
Cheeon
Tantoo Cardinal
Illanaq
Macon Blair
Shan
Jonathan Whitesell
Arnie
Peter McRobbie
Hunter John
Beckam Crawford
Bailey
Michael Tayles
Clerk
Issac Bird
Yup'ik Teen
Joseph Whitebird
Yup'ik Man
Zandus Snow
Yup'ik Boy
Conor Boru
Corporal
Anabel Kutay
Iraqi Woman
Emmanuel Imani
Medic
Clarence Hoof
Yup'ik Prayer #1
Savannah Bird
Yup'ik Prayer #2
Karen Powderface
Yup'ik Prayer #3
Eric Keenleyside
Big Deputy
Ryan Irving
Young Deputy
Brian Martell
Coroner
Sean Hoy
Old Timer Deputy
Savonna Spracklin
Susan
Makambe Simamba
Nurse
Gabriel Cross
Crying Cop
Lonni Olson
Angry Cop on Radio
Barb Mitchell
ER Doctor
Vanessa Holmes
Frantic Wife
Maureen Thomas
Innkeeper
Amanda Burke
Slone's Mother
Bobbi Jaye
Amy
Nicholas Asbury
Doctor (uncredited)
Mark Beswick
Doctor Hecks (uncredited)
Lorette Clow
Core's Wife (uncredited)
Hold the Dark Ratings & Reviews
DigitalDisappointment
February 1, 2025
Not good, by any measurements. Makes little sense, takes itself way too seriously, doesn't explain many things that you won't know unless you're from the region, etc.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Suddenly, what seemed like a man-vs-nature survivalist tale morphs into something that's part Arctic Noir and part violent art-horror.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
If Hold The Dark lacks the sheer razor-wire tension of Saulnier's earlier crime-horror corkers, it still knows how to make the carnage count-to force us to experience, on a gut level, every casualty.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A brutal slog of a film, admirable in its fearlessness in terms of dark subject matter, but the brutality doesn't feel worth it in the end.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Hold the Dark evades the payoff of easy explanations, but the filmmaker crafts such an immersive blend of shocking, violent developments and lyrical imagery that the specifics rarely matter.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Hold the Dark's ludicrous seriousness comes to feel like a mask for what's essentially a genre story of murder and mayhem.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
Saulnier's lens has become more defined and his pursuit of the shot intenser...Saulnier's pursuit of the shot gives the film not just an authenticity, but encapsulates the mood of the adapted screenplay.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Holding the dark - embracing it within, or keeping it away - is what all of Saulnier's films are about.
The Atlantic
David Sims
The film never coheres outside of those flashes, ultimately delivering a disappointing, confusing, but undeniably fascinating experience.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
It would be nice to report that Hold the Dark extends the promise of Blue Ruin and Green Room, but it doesn't, at least not for me.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
Wright's disturbed visage conveys his character's torn-between-two-worlds distress, with the actor using darting looks and burdened body language to beautifully articulate the war raging within.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Its determined ambition and atmospheric skill keeps Saulnier firmly in the category of directors to watch.
Austin Chronicle
Matthew Monagle
Challenging, dreamlike, and unrelentingly bleak, Hold the Dark is a western - and a Saulnier film - unlike any other.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Hold the Dark might have made a compelling book, but the film is one grim and pitiless journey.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A thriller that aspires to something deeper but never figures out what.
The Verge
Tasha Robinson
The story doesn't entirely hold together after the fact... but as is typical for Saulnier, it's shocking and moving while it's actually going on.
The Playlist
Jason Bailey
It's a moody, scary, post-Peckinpah meditation on masculinity.
Variety
Andrew Barker
A strangely seductive film, and one that understands the difference between simple plot resolution and catharsis, leading us on a journey into Alaska's frigid heart of darkness that poses more questions than it answers.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
There are a lot of big, heady themes woven throughout the story, none of which are ever fully developed, but rather are left as tantalizing, ambiguous nods toward deeper philosophical wells.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
A werewolf movie that isn't a werewolf movie, but really kind of is...
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