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Russell Ackerman
Eva Maria Daniels
Neil Kopp
Anish Savjani
John Schoenfelder

Addictive Pictures
VisionChaos Productions
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September 12, 2018 ( 2018-09-12 ) ( TIFF )
September 28, 2018 ( 2018-09-28 ) (worldwide)

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Hold the Dark is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair . It is based upon the novel of the same name by William Giraldi. The film stars Jeffrey Wright , Alexander Skarsgård , James Badge Dale , Riley Keough , Tantoo Cardinal , and Julian Black Antelope. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2018 and was released on September 28, 2018, by Netflix .

In December 2004, Russell Core ( Jeffrey Wright ), a writer who studies wolf behavior, is summoned to the village of Keelut, Alaska by Medora Slone ( Riley Keough ). Medora wants him to hunt down the wolves blamed for the disappearance of three small children, including her 6-year-old son Bailey. Core stays at her house, and unsuccessfully tries to convince her that this is not wolf behavior. Medora tells him that there is darkness there, and tells him of a hot springs to the north of town, which is the only warm place she's ever known. She also says her husband is away fighting in the war, and that he told her he would never leave her. In the middle of the night, Core wakes and sees Medora scrubbing her skin in the bath. When she is finished, she lays down naked next to Core without saying anything and puts his hand on her neck.

Medora's husband Vernon ( Alexander Skarsgård ), overseas in Iraq, [2] returns gun fire on Iraqi insurgents. Stationed at a checkpoint when shooting breaks out, Vernon rescues a local woman raped by another American, wounds him with a knife and hands the bloodied knife to the woman. Leaving the house, he is ambushed and shot, but survives. As he is air-lifted away, Vernon mumbles Bailey's name.

In the morning, Core set off to track the wolves, and meets Illanaq, an old native woman who tells him he is going the wrong way, and that Medora 'knows evil'. Core finds the hot springs Medora mentioned, and spots a pack of wolves eating their young. Unwilling to shoot them, Core returns to Keelut. At the Slone house, he finds Medora missing and discovers Bailey's frozen, strangled body in the cellar. The police investigate, and native villagers claim Medora is possessed by a wolf-demon called a tournaq .

Cheeon (Julian Black Antelope), Vernon's friend and father to another missing child, brings him to the morgue to identify Bailey's body. He meets police chief Donald Marium ( James Badge Dale ), Core and other police officers. After Core and Marium leave, Vernon kills the officers and the coroner and takes Bailey's body. Cheeon builds a coffin and Vernon buries his son in the snow after marking the body with his blood, a Yup'ik burial ritual.

Vernon reads the case file, burns it and visits Illanaq. She tells him the wolves had come before and claims no responsibility for what happened. She tells him about the influenza which spread through the village and took the lives of many, with nowhere to bury them with the ground frozen.

Discovering the officers murdered and Bailey's body missing, Marium realizes Vernon is responsible. Core, remembering the old woman's warning, arrives in Keelut at the same time as the police only to find Illanaq dead.

As officers take up position around Cheeon's house, Marium approaches it to ask about his involvement with the murders and to give him an opportunity to surrender. Cheeon talks about the government's neglect of Keelut and how it has affected their village. [3] Cheeon refuses to turn himself in, and as Marium returns to his cover, opens fire with a M60 machine gun . A shootout ensues, with many officers being wounded and killed before Marium can sneak into the house and kill Cheeon.

At an inn outside a tourist mine, where Medora was sighted, Vernon meets John, an elderly hunter who treated him with wolf-oil as a child for his apparent psychopathy . At John's invitation, Vernon takes a mask from the wall. He dons it and kills John, and is shot by the innkeeper on his way out. He visits Shan, an old friend, to gets his wound treated. Waking up from a dream of himself and Medora in the hot springs, Vernon overhears Shan talking to the police and kills Shan.

Core and Marium theorize that Medora killed Bailey to “save him from darkness”. Believing Medora is at the springs, the two resolve to find her before Vernon does.

Core and Marium fly to the hot springs in a small plane. As he examines the wolf tracks, Marium is shot through the neck by Vernon. Hoping to intercept Vernon in the springs, Core finds Medora, and tells her he is coming. Core is shot in the chest by an arrow from Vernon. As Vernon strangles Medora, she pushes the mask off his face, and he releases her. They embrace, and Core falls unconscious.

After Core awakens, Vernon removes the arrow and leaves with Medora. Core crawls outside the cave, encountering a pack of wolves, and is rescued by a father and son. Vernon and Medora dig up Bailey's grave, and pull the coffin behind them as they trek through the snow. Core wakes up in the hospital, his daughter Amy at his bedside.

In September 2015, it was announced Jeremy Saulnier would direct the film, based upon a screenplay by Macon Blair ; while Eva Maria Daniels, Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder would produce the film under their VisionChaos Productions banner and Addictive Pictures banners respectively, A24 would distribute the film. [4] In January 2017, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film, with Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp joining as producers. [5] In February 2017, Alexander Skarsgård , Riley Keough , James Bloor , James Badge Dale and Jeffrey Wright , joined the cast of the film. [6]

Principal photography began on February 27, 2017, and concluded on April 26, 2017. Filming took place in and around the areas surrounding Calgary , Drumheller and Kananaskis Country, Alberta , which were used to substitute for Alaska. [7] [8]

It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2018. [9] It also screened at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2018. [10] [11] It was released on September 28, 2018. [12]

Hold the Dark received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported a 71% approval rating based on 85 reviews, with an average score of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus they, " Hold the Dark ' s unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier — and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings." [13] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned a score of 63 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [14]

Now Reading What Happened At The End Of Hold The Dark ?
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Hold the Dark .
After watching the extraordinary Wyoming-set movie Wind River last year, I emerged from the theater completely certain I fulfilled my lifetime quota of uber-violent movies set in the coldest, grimmest regions of the United States. I did it. I was done. I did not have to endure any movies colder than Frozen .
Then, this morning, I found myself back in the upper latitudes of North America while watching the contemplative Netflix thriller Hold the Dark , out Friday. The movie-watching experience spurred many questions: Why am I doing this to myself? How long does it take for ice crystals to form on Jeffrey Wright’s generous beard? Why have none of the native Alaskans noticed the fact that supposed Alaskan “native” Vern (Alexander Skarsgård) has a Swedish accent ? Did Medora (Riley Keough) study creepy monologue delivery with an acting professional? But the most significant string of questions was spurred by the movie’s ending.
Unlike Wind River , which is cut-and-dry in its brutal ending, Hold the Dark’s conclusion is vague — and, frankly speaking, so is the rest of its plot. That’s because Hold the Dark isn’t a movie concerned with plot, but rather with Big Ideas: life at the edge of civilization, revenge, people who are wolves, wolves who spare people, mothers who do the unthinkable — and why.
Before we can answer all of your big questions about the movie’s symbol-riddled ending, let's make sure we're all on the same page in terms of basic plot. Hold the Dark kicks off when Alaska housewife Medora Sloane sends a handwritten letter to naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core after she believes her son has been taken by wolves. Russell is either bored or blessed with a natural inclination to help people, because next thing we know, he’s in Medora’s spare cabin in Northern Alaska putting on the right kind of boots to trudge through the snow. Halfway across the world, Medora’s husband, Vern, suffers a neck injury during the war in the Middle East and is sent home.
The movie's first Big Revelation comes early on. Russell finds the body of Medora's 5-year-old son frozen in the cabin. As he learns, Medora strangled the boy; his death had nothing to do with wolves. What comes next is a lot of people chasing each other through Alaska with guns. Medora escapes into the wilderness. Vern kills two policemen on Medora's case and sets off to find his wife himself. Finally, Russell and police chief Donald Marium (James Badge Dale) chase Vern down, which eventually leads to a shoot-out of disturbing proportions. Eventually, after almost every character who began the movie living is dead, Medora and Vern meet up at the hot springs and make out — and that's where all our big questions start.
Pay attention to the wolf mask. It is instrumental to the movie's Big Ideas. The wolf mask makes its first appearance 15 minutes into the movie, when Medora more or less confesses to her crime. She walks into Russell's bedroom naked, wearing only the mask that had been hanging on her wall. Wordlessly, she gets into bed and brings Russell's hands to her neck. She forces him to nearly strangle her. This is Medora's way of saying, "I am the wolf."
Later on, Vern carries out a series of killings wearing a same wolf mask, which he had taken from the hut of a rural hunter. "I can see you need to let the wolf out a little," the hunter says. Vern puts the mask on and immediately assumes Medora's lupine spirit. He kills the trapper in cold blood. At the end of the movie, after Vern and Medora reconcile, they seem to recognize their shared "wolfiness" and leave civilization together.
Characters are constantly remarking on Medora and Vern's "otherness." As a child, Vern's father was concerned he was not quite human . "He said you was...unnatural, that was his word," the trapper recalls to Vern. A local American Indian witch — likely the same woman who warns Russell of Medora's evil – had told Vern's father that wolf's oil from the hunter could cure Vern of his condition. In the present day, local American Indians warn Russell that Medora is possessed by a wolf's spirit.
Metaphorically, Medora and Vern are wolf-y. Obviously, though, Medora and Vern aren't wolves — Hold the Dark might be heavy on the symbols, but it's still set in the real world. They're people with streaks of ungovernable wildness; the mask lets that wildness out.
Indeed, that's the unspoken insinuation! Medora tells Russell she can't remember a time before Vern. And remember how someone says they're both "Nordic?" Vern and Medora are the same kind of strange because they share the same blood. Whereas this twist is only insinuated in the movie, it's overly stated in William Giraldi's novel. In fact, Medora is pregnant in the novel.
Why do the real wolves and the "human" wolves spare Russell?
Aside from Medora and Vern, Russell is the only character who ends the movie alive — which is impressive, considering the number of wolf packs and bullets he encounters. But if anyone is going to survive wolves, it's Russell. Author of the book A Year Among Them , he knows how to navigate wolf behavior. He spent a year among them!
Russell encounters packs of Alaskan wolves twice. On both occasions, the wolves stare him down and turn away. Then, he survives the "human" wolves. At a point when Vern could've easily killed Russell, he chooses to remove the arrow from Russell's chest and allow him to escape. Russell has been spared.
Fine, fine, Russell is blessed by the wolf god. But that doesn't explain why Medora and Vernon did any of it. Why did they do it?
Ah, that's the question. It's one that never quite gets answered, either. After surviving the shoot-out, Russell and Donald talk about the motivation behind the Sloanes' rampage. Russell is convinced these gaping questions had answers — but he and Donald may never truly understand them. "They do [have answers]. Whether or not they fit in our experience is another matter," he says. Russell and Donald aren't wild like the Sloanes. Russell's theory? Medora wanted to spare the boy from a lifetime of darkness. The darkness that he'll inherit from his "other" parents and the darkness of their region, where the sun goes down at 3:30 p.m.
The couple trudges through the Alaskan wilderness, dragging their son's coffin behind them. In the next shot, we see two wolves running. We're left to infer that the wolves are coming for Vern and Medora. Vern and Medora choose to destroy themselves instead of heading back civilization, where would be quickly apprehended and arrested for their crimes.
Fine. You can also think that Vern and Medora are the two wolves running, and they were restored to their true forms.
If Medora knew how her son died, why did she call Russell?
As Russell astutely observes, Medora wanted someone to bear witness to her story. A story can pierce the darkness.
What does the movie's final scene mean?
Russell, lucky Russell, makes it back to a hospital. His daughter, a teacher in Anchorage, is waiting for him. Throughout the movie, Russell had been alluding to his estranged daughter. In fact, he was motivated to travel to Alaska to reconnect with her. Now, he can pass on Medora's story to his daughter — exactly what Medora wanted.
Should we have guessed this was where the movie was going all along?
You mean, should we have guessed Hold the Dark would be an allegorical story about canines and dangers lurking within and outside of us? Yes. A huge clue was embedded into the name of the Medora and Vern's remote town, Keelut. In Inuit mythology, a Keelut is a spirit of the underworld who takes the form of a black hairless dog and preys on humans. Everyone has keelut within them and outside of them.
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