Hold the Dark is a surreal mystery about a fictional remote Alaskan village, Keelut, beset by wolves that are apparently taking children. Based on William Giraldi's novel, Hold the Dark is a suspense-filled flick that starts off feeling like Mystic River, with Russell trying desperately to find a young boy, Bailey.Russell's a documentarian and wolf expert, and Medora's final hope as her husband Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård) is off on duty in Iraq. READING GRID This angle of the analysis of the film and this acceptance of the functioning of the mechanics that animates Vernon Slone, allow us to solve the puzzle proposed by Saulnier. Hold the Dark being an allegory, is visible only in the rough contours of an elaborate discourse. It forces us to confront a menacing otherness that lies beyond the typical order of things. Hold the Dark is many things; sensical is not one of them. At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Hold the Dark is an American thriller/adventure movie directed by Jeremy Saulnier from a screenplay by Macon Blair. Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Hold the Dark. Jeffrey Wright stars as Russell Core, the film's titular character. hold the dark by William Giraldi ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 8, 2014 A wolf expert travels to a peculiar Alaskan village to investigate a series of child murders. 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 … https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Dark-Novel-William-Giraldi/dp/1631490427 It stars Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, Riley Keough, Tantoo Cardinal, and Julian Black Antelope. Like all of Saulnier's films, Hold The Dark is a brutal, unflinching look at life and death with tangible stakes. Trailer After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness. However, whereas Green Room was about the young accepting unavoidable mortality, there's something grander here. The new film from filmmaker Jeremy Sauliner (Blue Ruin, Green Room) has no color in its title–it could have been called The Grey, but there’s already been a (better) wolf-related film with that name. 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