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
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
87 minutes
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.

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.

Cast

Production

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

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.

Release

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

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

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.

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.

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.