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FilmPG-132013
Dark Skies
Directed by Scott Stewart
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying… From TMDB
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Dark Skies is a 2013 science fiction thriller horror film, directed by Scott Stewart, starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton and Dakota Goyo.
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60 of 80 · most liked firstOf all horror movies, alien abduction ones are what scare me the most because as a child I had alien night terrors constantly. I've seen this, but it's been 12 years. I'm in the mood to be scared right now. 👽🛸 #NowWatching: 🎥 Dark Skies (2013) 🎬 Directed By: Scott Stewart #Horror #SciFi
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun movie fact: E.T., Poltergeist, and Gremlins all started out as the same movie, Dark Skies. (A horror sequel to Close Encounters that didn't pan out) Poltergeist is the ugliest of the triplets, let me tell you.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen Dark Skies on Prime?? It's one of my comfort movies for some reason. It's not the greatest alien movie (obviously) but I like it.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is one of the reasons I liked DARK SKIES (2013), a movie in which the family is struggling financially and doesn’t live glamorously.
positive · AI labelView post →DARK SKIES (2013) is pretty similar to a ghost movie, but with aliens. Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton play the couple being haunted by extra-terrestrials and both are really good at grounding this kind of thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rum's Dazzling Dark Skies was made by filmmaker Davey Poremba and presenter Luke Waterson. There is more info about the film project here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
neutral · AI labelView post →👽 January on Movie Postmortem was all about aliens and AI: 🛸 Dark Skies - Ghosts? Nope. Grays! 🧬 Prometheus - A bad android, engineers, and black goo! 🧠 Megamind - SuperIncel origin story. ⚖️ Mercy - AI judges powered by Amazon? Bad idea! Keep watching the skies … and the cloud #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →👽👻 Dark Skies (2013) - Extraterrestrial Activity We review this Blumhouse film where aliens act like ghosts, but somehow it still works. We discuss why this topic scares us and how to fix the ending. Plus ads about aggressive dogs and your kids’ annoying pals. 😄 #DarkSkies #MovieSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Horror Movie Recommendation Every Day in October Unless I Forget: DARK SKIES (2013) Overlooked, rock solid early Blumhouse chiller about a family psychologically worn down and defeated by extraterrestrials whose eerie visitations evoke, and call into question, every haunted house story ever told.
positive · AI labelView post →397. Moonraker 1979 2h6mPG 66 Metascore 6.3 (115K) Sits between : 396. Paycheck 2003 and 398. Dark Skies 2013 on imdb category: movie/ sci-fi /80k votes or above
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched #Letterboxd #FilmSky #FridayFour Couple of genuinely scary movies this week. I was really pleasantly surprised by Dark Skies. Easily the creepiest alien movie I’ve seen in quite some time. And ofc Lost In Translation is a slam dunk 5, one of my top films ever.
positive · AI labelView post →Well, obviously the big ones: Alien franchise 4th Kind Dark Skies Some that you may not know about (please don't know about them) No One Will Save You Annihilation (this movie actually makes me sick to my stomach) Pandorum
neutral · AI labelView post →@maxevry.bsky.social's new book "Stranded on Earth" covers the evolution of Spielberg's dark & frightening alien invasion "Dark Skies" script into the warm & cuddly "ET". Highly recommended for anyone interested in Spielberg, alien encounters, or movie-making in general. Pre-order: amzn.to/46AeRJf
neutral · AI labelView post →For me, it was actually two moments that legitimately stayed with me. The first was the Scream Extractor in Monsters, Inc., just seeing that thing get closer to the camera left a haunting impact. The second is this nightmare in Blumhouse film Dark Skies (2013) where we are treated to THIS visual...
neutral · AI labelView post →So I just watched "Dark Skies" - www.imdb.com/title/tt2387... This movie's stupid. 2/10 #Movie #Review #DarkSkies
negative · AI labelView post →Dark Skies (2013) This was the earliest horror film I saw (I literally walked into my parents' bedroom as this played on the TV) that scarred me for a really long time.
neutral · AI labelView post →In three weeks' time I'll be speaking at the Wester Ross Dark Skies Festival. The vague parallels between this and my favourite film "Local Hero" are not lost on me, and I am expecting to stand in a phone box describing, in wonder, the night sky down the phone at some point.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched another movie. Dark Skies. First half was alright and the second half was definitely weaker.
neutral · AI labelView post →One more movie before Dynamite, fuck it I'm off today. Next randomly selected movie from my list of unwatched horror movies is... Dark Skies, 2013. Starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton and J.K. Simmons.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's solid stuff that follows a pretty classic episodic formula; it's basically THE FUGITIVE with aliens. Doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it's eminently watchable. There was a TV movie sequel in the 90s, thanks to the X-Files boom, as well as a show called DARK SKIES, which was quite similar.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Science Fiction Movies Released on September 21! What's your fave? 1. Dredd 2. No One Will Save You 3. Resident Evil: Extinction 4. Dark Skies 14 #SciFi movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/sep-21#science-fiction #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I went into the movie knowing that it was John Williams, but there were moments where it I was hit with “Oh, yeah, this is JOHN WILLIAMS.” If this is the final alien movie we get from Spielberg, its hopefulness is very much the opposite of the never-made Dark Skies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today we celebrate the birthday of Tobe Hooper, born today in 1943. An American director, screenwriter, and producer best known for work in the horror genre, his works include The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, the TV movie Salem’s Lot, and NBC's Dark Skies. #TobeHooper
neutral · AI labelView post →Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of my favorite films and hearing that Spielberg is making another UFO film has me really intrigued. Is he finally gonna do that Dark Skies idea he had decades ago?
neutral · AI labelView post →Film of the Day Dark Skies
neutral · AI labelView post →Science Fiction I liked from 1996: Star Trek: First Contact The Arrival Mars Attacks! Suroh: Alien Hitchhiker Dark Skies Escape from L.A. Independence Day MST3K: The Movie The Nutty Professor
neutral · AI labelView post →Though a few years after I saw the film, I ended up being traumatized by another film that had a scene involving eyes (or rather a lack of them), that being a horror film called Dark Skies (2013).
neutral · AI labelView post →catching up almost a month's worth of Letterboxd diary entries is annoying. Anyway, Dark Skies (2013) was originally a 7 out of 10 from me and i have no idea what the hell I was smoking because that movie was dreadful this second time around.
negative · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to American actress Gina Philips, born today in 1970. Philips has had roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dark Skies, and Sliders, but perhaps best known in fandom as Trish Jenner in the horror film Jeepers Creepers. #GinaPhilips
neutral · AI labelView post →I have an irrational fear of the grey aliens, and this movie is actually scary to me. I don't believe in aliens thanks to the Tyranny of Distance, but films like this and "Dark Skies" and the immortal classic "Fire in the Sky" make me turn on all the lights, load the shotgun, and lock the doors 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 🚨REMINDER!!! 🚨 🚨 On Tomorrow night's episode of Fright Nights, we will be discussing the 2013 film Dark Skies! (Available streaming on Amazon Prime) Set your alarms!!! @ferociousfi78.bsky.social @fuzzybelvedere.bsky.social @prestobeaches.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/xGnjlAA...
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark Skies is an alien abduction film, so why do these extraterrestrials act so "ghosty"? 👻🤔 In our episode, we discuss how this is probably because Blumhouse originally intended for this to be a found-footage film like Paranormal Activity.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not a movie as such but I liked Dark Skies.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️👽 Dark Skies (2013) My rating 6/10 #filmsky #movies #film #primevideo
neutral · AI labelView post →This is what inspired me to watch DARK SKIES, the pretty good 2013 alien encounter movie from the same director.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to American actress Gina Philips, born today in 1970. Philips has had roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dark Skies, and Sliders, but perhaps best known in fandom as Trish Jenner in the horror film Jeepers Creepers. #GinaPhilips
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching Dark Skies. Good little movie, nice suspenseful lead up. Good creeps. Reminds me of the beginning of Poltergeist or Close Encounters.
positive · AI labelView post →Share your favourite... Vampire Movie: Let The Right One In Zombie Movie: 28 Days Later Haunting Movie: Insidious Creature Feature: A Quiet Place Found Footage: N/A, Never been a fan Slasher: Halloween Cosmic Horror: Dark Skies Psychological Horror: Green Room Horror Comedy: Tucker & Dale Vs Evil
neutral · AI labelView post →2026. OPENING SEQUENCE This is the opening sequence to "Dark Skies, Hot Planet, Cool Gaze," our trippy film for a future civilization. Multiple international award winner (see posts below). "A Cool Voids Project" #berlinindiefilmfest #RememberTheFuture #futurism vimeo.com/1153009796
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes you watch film and you don't recognize the cast. Other times you get around to watching Dark Skies and look, it's Sergeant Major T Dickerson. What does three up and three down mean to you, airman?
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never had missing time but I've had dreams of Greys. And the first time I saw the movie Dark Skies I had an immediate and visceral panic attack at the alien reveal at the end. I think my subconscious knows something my awake brain doesn't.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 9pm, Nobody on Film4, The Spy Who Loved Me on ITV4 or The Da Vinci Code on Sky Max. At 10.50pm, Beast on Film4. At 11pm, Dark Skies on Sky Sci-Fi. At 12.50am, Berlin on ITV1. At 1am, Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy on Film4 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →YOUR PARTNER AND ME SHAKING HANDS.... 🤝 I've gotten over my major fears (mostly 😂), and now I'm a huge fan of alien stories and media -- AND YES, LOVED DARK SKIES, even though it made me super unnerved too! 😱 Just the energy alone of that film had me on edge!!
positive · AI labelView post →Pretty sure my partner is the same way haha. Loves alien stuff but also very spooked of abduction stuff. Big fan of X-files and Majora's Have you seen Dark Skies?? I'm not even really spooked about aliens and I refuse to watch that movie again 💀
negative · AI labelView post →Recommend an Alien movie 👽 🖤 My pick: Dark Skies (2013) A genuinely terrifying movie
positive · AI labelView post →👽🏠Movie Postmortem: Dark Skies (2013) 🎉 Celebration: eerie alien imagery, J.K. Simmons’ alien expert character 💀 Death: aliens act like ghosts for some reason, found footage style scenes 🧵 Stitch-Up: use Simmons more, reveal twist before (not after) final abduction #DarkSkies #MovieSky #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →is that the 2013 UFOlogy horror movie Dark Skies?
neutral · AI labelView post →She's also in a great alien abduction movie called Dark Skies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also an absolutely great film! Out of all the horror based alien movies, I’d say Signs and Dark Skies are top of the barrel! Cloverfield is also up there!
positive · AI labelView post →2024. ROAD TRIP FOR A FUTURE CIVILIZATION. Happy to guest lecture for Dr. Julia Hildebrand's class. Drawing from my forthcoming film—Dark Skies, Hot Planet, Cool Gaze—this talk explores ideas needed to save this civilization or a create a future civilization. #future #futurism #civilization
neutral · AI labelView post →I get Dark Skies mixed up with a different movie that may or may not also involve aliens. I can't remember much except there's a scene where sod is being laid down for a lawn, and then I think overnight racoons showed up and ate the grass because the sod was infested with worms?
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, lately? Couldn't even tell you. I don't really like jump scares or gore. They feel cheap. A movie that completely terrified and unnerved me tho, was DARK SKIES.
positive · AI labelView post →There is actually a horror movie that (sort of) does this (in metaphor) called Dark Skies. It uses a family dealing with aliens trying to abduct them as an analog for dealing with medical/mental health crises and how American society just hangs families out to dry in those circumstances.
neutral · AI labelView post →end it with Deb, no spoilers but out of this list it's probably the most "sleeper hit" also (I guess minor spoilers) but Dark Skies should come with an epilepsy trigger warning, but for one particular scene, not the whole film
neutral · AI labelView post →They will Kill You was entertaining. Serpent and the Rainbow is an old 70s Haitian voodoo film, Dark Skies I'm almost certain was real 😅 there's a good mix here for you if you haven't seen these.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching 'Dark Skies' #movie #movies #sandman
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Dark Skies 1080p (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Horror) (iMDB) 6.4 Cast: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, Kadan Rockett, J.K. Simmons, L.J. Benet
neutral · AI labelView post →This legislation, if signed into law by the U.S. President, will have a direct and harmful effect on conditions at a designated International Dark Sky Sanctuary. The news item: https://apnews.com/article/mining-moratorium-boundary-waters-senate-vote-3e3f0827d52dd6d37f5e554b804ff27c The legislation: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/140 The Sanctuary: https://darksky.org/places/boundary-waters-canoe-area-dark-sky-sanctuary/ The world is watching. #DarkSkies…
neutral · AI labelView post →Losing the Dark - Flat Screen Version "Starry skies are a vanishing treasure because light pollution is washing away our view of the cosmos. It not only threatens astronomy, it disrupts wildlife, and affects human health. The yellow glows over cities and towns — seen so clearly from space — are testament to the billions spent in wasted energy from lighting up the sky. "To help raise public awareness of some of the issues pertaining to light pollution, Loch Ness Productions in collaboration with…
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark Skies is a great alien spooky film.
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