Edges of Darkness

Edges of Darkness
Movie poster
Directed by
  • Blaine Cade
  • Jason Horton
Written by
  • Blaine Cade
  • Jason Horton
Produced byStephen Kayo
Starring
  • Annemarie Pazmino
  • Lee Perkins
  • Michelle Rose
CinematographyJames L. Bills
Edited byJason Horton
Music byPakk Hui
Production
companies
  • Gas Money Pictures
  • Zapruter Productions
Distributed by
Running time
87 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Edges of Darkness is a 2008 American independent horror anthology film directed by Jason Horton and Blaine Cade. The film consists of three interconnected stories set during a zombie apocalypse.[1]

Plot

Edges of Darkness follows three groups of survivors sheltering in an apartment complex during a zombie apocalypse. With their food supply dwindling, a vampire couple kidnaps a young girl, intending to feed on her slowly. Dean, an obsessive horror writer, isolates himself with his neglected wife, Dana, and installs a mysterious new processor that allows his computer to run without electricity, only to discover that it draws its power from living beings. Heather, a survivalist, rescues a young mother and her son from zombies and brings them back to the apartment complex, where she learns that the pair are being pursued by a group of renegade priests who intend to destroy the boy.[1]

Cast

  • Alonzo F. Jones as Stan
  • Shamika Ann Franklin as Stellie
  • Annemarie Pazmino as Natalie
  • Lee Perkins as Paul
  • Michelle Rose as Heather
  • Xavier Jones as Marcus
  • Jay Costelo as Dean
  • Alisha Gaddis as Dana
  • Robert Kitchen as Priest
  • Wayne Baldwin as Morris
  • Damon Burks as Daemon

Production

Principal photography had wrapped by February 2007.[4] A test screening was held in June 2007, while work continued on the score and the final visual-effects shots.[5]

Post-production was prolonged by difficulties finding a composer. Horton said that it took five attempts to find a suitable composer and that the scoring process delayed completion by more than six months. The film was completed in February 2008.[6]

Release

Edges of Darkness received its UK television premiere in early 2009.[7]

Anchor Bay Entertainment released the film on DVD in the United States on September 22, 2009.[2]

Reception

Mike Phalin of Dread Central rated the film three out of five stars. He criticized the computer-centered segment as tonally inconsistent with the rest of the anthology, but praised the vampire and Antichrist storylines and considered the film unusually inventive for a low-budget zombie production.[8]

Peter Dendle, writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000–2010, described the film's stories as thin and largely disconnected, although he considered the film an improvement over Rise of the Undead.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Moore, Debi (July 12, 2009). "Edges of Darkness Distro News and Teaser for Trap". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  2. 1 2 Moore, Debi (August 4, 2009). "Edges of Darkness DVD Artwork". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Edges of Darkness". Apple TV. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  4. ↑ Phalin, Mike (February 17, 2007). "Zombie Anthology Darkness Wraps". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  5. ↑ Phalin, Mike (June 22, 2007). "Edges Of Darkness Tease Us". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  6. ↑ Phalin, Mike (February 21, 2008). "Edges of Darkness Complete!". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  7. ↑ Moore, Debi (June 9, 2009). "Japanese Edges of Darkness Poster". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  8. ↑ Phalin, Mike (September 23, 2008). "Edges of Darkness (2008)". Dread Central. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  9. ↑ Dendle, Peter (2012). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: 2000–2010. McFarland & Company. p. 88. ISBN 9780786492886.
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